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March 9, 2015

Two former employees of the Mental Health Association of Rockland County, Inc. will receive an undisclosed whistleblower award from the $304,000 settlement resolving allegations MHAR violated the New York False Claims Act through its managers and employees altering records in advance of a Medicaid audit so the records would appear to support claims MHAR submitted to New York State's Medicaid program. NY

Tagged in: FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Provider Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

March 3, 2015

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested Christopher A. Days, owner of Better Days of North Central Florida, LLC., for more than $65,000 in Medicaid fraud for billing for services not rendered and failing to properly document for services rendered. FL

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February 25, 2015

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with nonprofit Regional Aid for Interim Needs, Inc. (RAIN) for diverting $800,000 in Medicaid funds to make mortgage payments on the agency’s administrative headquarters in violation of the organization’s funding agreements with the NYC Human Resource Administration. Under the settlement, RAIN, which provides home attendant services to elderly residents in the Bronx, must repay the illegally diverted $800,000 back to the Medicaid program. NY

Tagged in: Home Health and Hospice, Medicaid,

February 4, 2015

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced Medicaid fraud and other charges against Philadelphia-based Infinite Care Inc., sister company Infinite Care Special Needs Inc., and the companies’ vice president and treasurer. According to the Grand Jury, Infinite Care fraudulently billed Medicaid by more than $1M for services not rendered from January 2010 to the present, and after the company received a Grand Jury subpoena, it held a meeting where the decision was made to destroy the fraudulent paperwork submitted to the Commonwealth for services not provided and for inflated services. PA

Tagged in: Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud,

January 30, 2015

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Neighborhood Diabetes, Inc. will pay more than $1.5M to settle allegations it improperly billed and received payments from the state’s Medicaid program when it automatically refilled prescription medications that were not specifically requested by MassHealth patients or caregivers. The settlement is the second case in the Commonwealth to address a pharmacy’s operation of an improper automatic refill program with MassHealth members. In September 2013, AllCare Pharmacy agreed to pay $1.6M to settle similar allegations. MA

Tagged in: FCA State, Medicaid, Pharma Fraud,

January 20, 2015

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested six former Targeted Case Managers of DS Connections, Inc. for more than $170,000 in Medicaid fraud. FL

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid,

January 16, 2015

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Sea Mar Community Health Centers agreed to pay $3.35M to settle charges of improperly billing Medicaid for thousands of dental appointments. According to the government, Sea Mar billed fluoride treatments as stand-alone appointments with a dentist or hygienist when they could have been performed much more cheaply by dental assistants as part of a patient’s regular six-month checkups. WA

Tagged in: FCA State, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Provider Fraud,

January 7, 2015

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Florida, along with California, Colorado, Kentucky, and Ohio and the federal government, entered a $22 million national settlement with DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc., one of the leading providers of dialysis services in the US. The settlement resolves allegations originating in a whistleblower lawsuit that DaVita paid illegal kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics, causing false claims to be submitted to the Medicaid program. DaVita will pay Florida $5.6 million in restitution and other recoveries. FL

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid, Provider Fraud,

October 31, 2014

Oklahoma-based dental company, Ocean Dental PC, which operates 28 clinics in seven states, agreed to pay more than $5M to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Medicaid program for dental work never performed or billed at a higher rate than allowed. The charges apparently stem from dental restorations by former employee Robin Lockwood who was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a separate case. NewsOK

Tagged in: FCA State, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Provider Fraud,

October 16, 2014

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott entered into a settlement with generic drug maker Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ranbaxy Laboratories, Inc., Ranbaxy USA, Inc. and Ranbaxy, Inc. to resolve allegations they violated the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act by fraudulently reporting inflated drug prices to the Medicaid program. Under the settlement, Ranbaxy must pay the State of Texas about $18M. TXAG

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

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