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Government Audit of Chronic Care Management Services Raises Serious Questions About Proposed Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors

Posted  11/22/19
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is engaged in what it calls a “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care,” in order to, in the words of HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, “update, reform, and cut back our regulations to allow innovation toward a more affordable, higher quality, value-based healthcare system.”  On October 9, 2019, as part of this effort to “cut back” on regulations to advance...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Managed Care, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare,

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November 15, 2019

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Lupin Limited and related entities, together with company executives Vinita Gupta and Robert Hoffman, will pay $63 million to Texas to resolve claims under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Action that they reported inflated drug prices to the state's Medicaid program in order to receive excess reimbursements.  The investigation of Lupin was initiated by a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Expess Med Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  TX

Tagged in: Drug and DME Pricing, FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Pharma Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

November 14, 2019

Following a guilty plea in 2018, Sandra Haar was sentenced to five years in prison and has agreed to sell 13 properties, including former clinic properties, to resolve civil claims under the False Claims Act that she and the non-profit provider of health and dental services she ran, Horisons Unlimited, submitted fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal, including claims for services rendered by unlicensed providers, claims for services that were not rendered at all, and claims for unnecessary services. Haar was also alleged to have received thousands in kickbacks from a laboratory in exchange for sending Horisons patients to the lab. Haar will be excluded from Medicare participation for 20 years; the former Horisons CFO, Norman Haar, will be excluded for 15 years.  USAO ED Cal

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Provider Fraud,

November 13, 2019

The Louisiana Department of Health, which manages Louisiana’s Medicaid program, will pay $13.42 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that the state submitted false claims for federal share reimbursement of state Medicaid expenditures for long-term nursing care and hospice care.  The federal government alleged that in anticipation of a reduction in federal payments for such services, the state agency directed its healthcare contractor, Molina Medical Solutions, to pre-bill for nursing home and hospice services in order to receive funds at the existing higher rates.   DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Home Health and Hospice, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, SNF,

November 7, 2019

Medical device manufacturer Life Spine Inc. has agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle fraud allegations stemming from a qui tam suit, with founder and CEO Michael Butler agreeing pay another $375,000, and VP of business development Richard Greiber agreeing to pay another $115,000.  As part of the settlement, the defendants admitted to paying kickbacks to surgeons and entities between 2012 and 2018 in exchange for their use of Life Spine’s spinal implants, devices, and equipment.  USAO SDNY

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Medical Devices and DME, Medicare, Whistleblower Case,

November 5, 2019

A home health agency that allegedly defrauded Medicare and Louisiana’s Medicaid program has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle claims arising from a qui tam suit.  Defendants Health Care Options, Inc., Health Care Options of Lafayette, Inc., Home Care Options Houston, Inc., and Howard Austin, II allegedly submitted reimbursement claims involving non-face-to-face encounters, as required by program rules.  USAO MDLA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Home Health and Hospice, Medicaid, Medicare, Whistleblower Case,

October 28, 2019

The State of Illinois has reached a settlement with more than a dozen drug manufacturers alleged to have published inflated "average wholesale prices" for drugs whose purchase was reimbursed by Illinois's Medicaid program at prices based on those false AWPs.  The settlement for $242 million includes Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Aventis Behring LLC, n/k/a ZLB Behring; B. Braun Medical Inc.; Forest Laboratories, Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline LLC; Johnson & Johnson, Inc.; Janssen Pharmaceutical Products, LP; McNeil-PPC, Inc.; Ortho Biotech Products, LP; Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Pfizer Inc.; Pharmacia Corporation; and TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.  In total, Illinois has settled inflated AWP claims against more than four dozen manufacturers (see, e.g., January 2019 settlement with TEVA Pharmaceuticals), recovering $678 million in total.  IL AG  

Tagged in: Drug and DME Pricing, FCA State, Medicaid, Pharma Fraud,

October 28, 2019

Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center, and Sanford Clinic have agreed to pay $20.25 million and enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement in order to resolve alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act.  Despite warnings by several physicians that a top neurosurgeon was illegally profiting off his use of implantable medical devices as well as performing medically unnecessary surgeries involving the devices, Sanford did nothing to stop the offender, allowing Medicare and Medicaid to continue being defrauded.  The allegations were raised by Sanford surgeons Drs. Carl Dustin Bechtold and Bryan Wellman, who will share in a $3.4 million cut of the settlement proceeds.  DOJ; USAO SD

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medical Devices and DME, Medicare, Provider Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

October 15, 2019

Otolaryngologist Dr. Tracey Wellendorf has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act in at least 115 procedures billed to Iowa Medicaid.  The alleged misconduct occurred between 2014 and 2015 and involved endoscopic sinus surgeries that were either medically unnecessary or incorrectly coded.  USAO NDIA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud,

October 4, 2019

Southern California-based Retina Institute of California Medical Group (RIC), its former CEO, and several of its physicians have agreed to pay the State of California and United States $6.65 million to settle alleged violations of state and federal False Claims Acts.  According to former administrators Bobbette Smith and Susan Rogers, between 2006 and 2017, the ophthalmology group improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary and unperformed eye exams, upcoded simple exams using codes normally reserved for emergency conditions, and waived mandatory co-payments and deductibles to induce patient referrals.  Smith and Rogers will receive a relator’s share, which remains to be determined.  USAO CDCA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Provider Fraud, Upcoding, Whistleblower Case,

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