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PET Scan Provider to Pay $8.3M to Resolve Allegations of Kickbacks and False Claims Act Violations

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team California-based medical scan provider, Modern Nuclear Inc. (MNI), agreed to pay $8,334,350, and additional money based on future revenue, to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying referring cardiologists hefty fees to supervise positron emission tomography (PET) scans, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.[1]

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AssuredPartners to Pay $107M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fraud

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Florida-based AssuredPartners, Inc. (AP), a national partnership of insurance companies, agreed to pay $107 million to settle allegations of violating the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent applications for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance.[1]  In a parallel criminal proceeding, AP’s insurance...

Advanced Urology Pays $14M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Billing Medicare for Medically Unnecessary Services

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 2, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Georgia-based Advanced Urology, Inc. and its founder Dr. Jitesh Patel will pay $14 million to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act and Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act by billing for urology procedures that were medically unnecessary or not performed at all.[1]  Notably, DOJ highlighted that...

Physical Therapy Company to Pay Millions to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On March 25, Jerome F. Gorgon Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced that Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC (“Team Rehab”), a company operating around 140 physical therapy clinics in various states, agreed to pay $4,969,494 to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to federal...

Healthcare Management Corporation to Pay $4M to Resolve False Claims Act Charges

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Maryland-based CVR Management, LLC, the Center for Vein Restoration, Center for Vascular Medicine (CVM), LLC, and Sanjiv Lakhanpal, MD, FACS (the entities’ CEO and president and CVM’s chairman of the board), agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for medically unnecessary...

Top 10 Whistleblower Awards for 2025 - False Claims Act Whistleblowers Dominate the List

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team As we reported in our post on the Department of Justice (DOJ) annual False Claims Act roundup, 2025 was a record year for False Claims Act recoveries, with DOJ bringing in $6.9 billion under the statute last year.  The majority of that amount -- more than $5.3 billion -- came from actions originated by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the statute.

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W International Companies to Pay $10.5M to Settle FCA Allegations of Overcharging Air Force and Navy for Weld Tables

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team  On March 17, the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs announced that W International LLC, W International SC LLC, Precision Metal Equipment Handling LLC, and Chief Executive Officer Edward Walker agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act of knowingly overcharging the U.S. Air Force and Navy for weld tables.[1] Michigan-based W...

DOJ Settles Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Client's False Claims Act Allegations of Incentive Compensation Ban Violations

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Last Tuesday (February 24), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Massachusetts-based Study Across the Pond (SATP) and its principal John Borhaug agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act through improper recruiting practices of U.S. students for study abroad.[1]  Constantine Cannon -- co-counseling with Whistleblower...

Whistleblower-Originated Case Leads to Settlement: St. Margaret’s Center Nursing Home to Pay $1.3M To Resolve False Claims Act Case

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On February 12, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, John A. Sarcone III, announced that a skilled nursing facility, the Center for Disability Services Holding Corporation, d/b/a St. Margaret’s Center (“SMC”), agreed to pay $1,300,000 to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act “by billing for care that was...

Asphalt Companies Will Pay $30M Total to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Two Ohio-based asphalt companies agreed to pay $30 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that they submitted fraudulent test results to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for federally funded asphalt projects in Ohio.[1]

What Will Each Company Pay?

Kokosing Materials, Inc. will pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false or...