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July 26, 2022

Dr. Don Flanagan, D.D.S. and his companies Dental Center, Inc. and Dental Center, P.C. d/b/a Cloudland Dental, will pay $1.5 million for submitting or causing to be submitted claims for payment by falsely identifying Dr. Flanagan as the credentialed physician rendering services. TennCare requires dentists to be credentialed as part of the approval process for billing, yet, from January 2015 through February 2019, services were rendered by uncredentialed dentists, which is a violation of the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act. EDTN USAO

Tagged in: FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Improper Medical Personnel, Medicaid, Provider Fraud,

June 29, 2022

Citadel Care Centers LLC and Plaza Rehab and Nursing Center will pay $7.85 million for switching their elderly residents’ Medicare coverage to maximize the Medicare payments the centers would receive--a blatant False Claims Act violation. Citadel directed Plaza employees to disenroll residents from Medicare Advantage Plans and enroll them in Original Medicare instead—without the residents’ knowledge or consent—to maximize their reimbursements. USAO SDNY

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Medicare, Provider Fraud, SNF,

June 28, 2022

Fifteen additional doctors affiliated with a kickback scheme involving Rockdale Hospital d/b/a Little River Healthcare, True Health Diagnostics LLC, and/or Boston Heart Diagnostics Corporation, have agreed to pay a cumulative $2.8 million to settle allegations of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law by accepting improper remuneration in exchange for ordering tests from those laboratories.  According to the press release, the government has now recovered over $32 million from settlements with thirty-three doctors, two executives, and one laboratory in connection with this scheme.  USAO EDTX

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Healthcare Fraud, Laboratory and IDTF, Provider Fraud,

June 10, 2022

A doctor who allegedly submitted claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal for unperformed procedures, services, and tests, in violation of the California and federal False Claims Acts, has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve a civil suit.  The qui tam case by Minas Kochumian’s former medical assistant Elize Oganesyan, and former IT consultant Damon Davies, alleged that claims for treatment of osteopathic issues that were submitted over a six year period were false.  The settlement includes $5.5 million that Kochumian already paid as criminal restitution in a separate case in the Central District.  As part of the civil settlement, Oganesyan and Davies will share a $1.75 million award.  CA AG; USAO EDCA

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

June 10, 2022

Steward Health Care System LLC and related entities will pay $4.7 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations involving improper financial and referral arrangements between SHC and physician practices. Steward Good Samaritan Medical Center, Inc., contracted with Brockton Urology Clinic to administer a Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence at SGSMC. SGSMC paid BUC throughout the agreement as compensation for sending referrals to SGSMC. The investigation revealed other such arrangements between Steward and physician practices. The conduct was exposed by whistleblowers, who filed under the FCA’s qui tam provisions. The relators will receive 17% of the recovery. USAO MA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Investigation, Healthcare Fraud, Hospital Fraud, Provider Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

June 6, 2022

SNAP Diagnostics LLC, along with its founder, Gil Raviv, and vice president, Stephen Burton, will pay a combined $3.925 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute violations. SNAP routinely submitted claims for Medicare and TRICARE patients’ second and third nights of home sleep testing, when patients with private health insurance were routinely billed only for the first night. Additionally, SNAP multiplied copays from senior citizen Medicare beneficiaries, and incentivized physicians to refer their patients for sleep testing services. USAO NDIL

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Laboratory and IDTF, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Other Government Health Programs, Provider Fraud,

June 3, 2022

Rodney L. Yentzer will pay $900,000 for violating the False Claims Act. Through Pain Medicine of York, a group of clinics he controlled, Yentzer caused the submission of false claims for payment to Medicare for urine drug tests that were not medically reasonable or necessary and were not used to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. He is excluded from participation in all federal health care programs for 22 years. In March of 2022, Yentzer pleaded guilty to Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering, and Theft of Public Money for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services between 2016 and 2020. USAO MDPA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Laboratory and IDTF, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Medical Billing Fraud, Medicare, Other Government Health Programs, Provider Fraud,

June 1, 2022

Behavioral health provider Healthkeeperz, Inc. has agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it falsely billed North Carolina’s Medicaid program for services that were not covered.  The allegations arose from a lawsuit filed by Ginger Hill under the qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act and the North Carolina False Claims Act.  USAO WD NC; NC

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

May 24, 2022

Dr. Roger Wang will pay over $1 million for violations of the False Claims Act committed by charging Medicare for non-FDA-approved drugs and associated services. Dr. Wang, a rheumatology specialist, injected his patients with drugs like Synvisc, Synvisc One, or Orthovisc—vicosupplements used to treat osteoarthritis pain—that were not FDA-approved for distribution in the US, and therefore not billable to Medicare. USAO NDCA

Tagged in: Drug Switching, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Medicare, Off-Label and Unapproved Use, Provider Fraud,

May 18, 2022

Pat Truglia will spend 120 months in prison, forfeit over $9.4 million, and will pay restitution of $33.7 million for conspiring to defraud Medicare, TRICARE, and CHAMPVA, among others, of approximately $50 million through their fraudulent billing scheme. The scheme involved offering, paying, soliciting, and receiving kickback for durable medical equipment—in this case, braces. Truglia and his conspirators obtained DME orders for Medicare and other federal healthcare program beneficiaries by running multiple call centers, which paid kickbacks and bribes to telemedicine companies, who then paid doctors to write medically unnecessary orders. The orders were filled by Truglia’s companies, who then fraudulently billed the healthcare programs. USAO NJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Criminal Proceedings, Healthcare Fraud, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medical Devices and DME, Medicare, Other Government Health Programs, Provider Fraud,

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