Charges Filed in Shameful COVID-19 and Genetic-Cancer-Screening Test Scam
Posted 04/3/20
Healthcare Fraud
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The Missing Ventilator Stockpile Was Not Inevitable
Posted 04/3/20
Tracking Medicaid Fraud: HHS OIG Releases MFCU Annual Report
Posted 04/2/20
April 2, 2020
FPR Specialty Pharmacy LLC and Mead Square Pharmacy, Inc., along with owners Christopher Casey and William Rue, have agreed to pay $426,000 to settle a whistleblower-brought case alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act in connection with a compounded prescription analgesic cream called Focused Pain Relief. As part of the settlement, the defendants admitted that from 2011 to 2015, they sold prescription drugs to patients in states they were not licensed to sell in, failed to charge mandatory co-pays to beneficiaries of various federal healthcare programs, and paid sales agents to solicit physicians to prescribe the cream. USAO SDNYApril 1, 2020
A physician’s assistant in Louisiana, Stephen Honeycutt, has agreed to pay $620,500 for accepting illegal kickbacks from OK Compounding, LLC, which has been involved in multiple enforcement actions of a similar nature across the country. Over a period of about six months in 2013, Honeycutt prescribed expensive compounded pain creams to patients, many of whom were Medicare and TRICARE beneficiaries, in exchange for kickbacks disguised as medical director fees. USAO NDOKLoosening the Rules on Telehealth to Fight Coronavirus May Also Result in New Medicare Fraud Schemes
Posted 03/27/20
March 20, 2020
A doctor in Florida has paid the United States $850,000 to settle claims of violating the Anti-Kickback and False Claims Acts. In exchange for prescribing a powerful but highly addictive fentanyl spray, Subsys, to her patients, Dr. Parveen Khanna allegedly took illegal kickbacks from manufacturer Insys Pharmaceuticals, Inc that were disguised as speaker fees, then submitted claims for reimbursement to Medicare and TRICARE in violation of program rules prohibiting payment for kickback-induced services. USAO MDFLData Analysts: a New Kind of Whistleblower to “Catch a Rogue,” write Gordon Schnell and Max Voldman in Stat News
Posted 03/20/20
The COVID-19 Crisis, Whistleblowers, and the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team
Posted 03/19/20
