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September 5, 2014
Life Care Services LLC, a manager of skilled nursing facilities based in Des Moines, Iowa, and CoreCare V LLP, doing business as ParkVista, a skilled nursing facility in Fullerton, California, agreed to pay a total of $3.75 million for causing the submission of false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy purportedly provided by RehabCare Group East Inc., a subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare Inc. DOJJune 25, 2014
Omnicare Inc., the nation’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to nursing homes, agreed to pay $124M to resolve charges it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by providing improper financial incentives to skilled nursing facilities in return for their continued selection of Omnicare to supply drugs to elderly Medicare and Medicaid patients. The government’s action against Omnicare originated with two lawsuits filed by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The first whistleblower, former Omnicare employee Donald Gale, will receive roughly $17M out of the government’s recovery. Whistleblower InsiderMay 14, 2014
Richard Shannon, a patient recruiter for All American and Patient Choice, two home health care companies that provide skilled nursing and physical therapy services to Medicare beneficiaries in the greater Detroit area, was sentenced to 86 months in prison for his role in a $14.5M Medicare fraud scheme. The evidence showed that Shannon paid Medicare beneficiaries to sign blank documents for physical therapy services that were never provided and/or medically unnecessary. Shannon recruited destitute beneficiaries from housing projects and soup kitchens in the Detroit area, obtaining their patient information in exchange for cash and promises of prescription narcotics prescribed by co-conspirator physicians. DOJApril 24, 2014
Monica Patrice Carter, owner of the Baton Rouge pharmacy Community Pharmacy 1, pleaded guilty for directing a $2.2M Medicare fraud scheme where she paid employees of nursing homes and mental health facilities to collect and return unused prescription drugs which her pharmacy then repackaged and redistributed and billed Medicare as if they were being distributed for the first time – effectively billing Medicare twice for the same medications. DOJJanuary 17, 2014
RehabCare Group and other contract therapy providers agreed to pay $30 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a kickback scheme related to the illegal referral of nursing home business. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJDOJ Catch Of The Week -- Kindred Healthcare
Posted 01/15/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Kentucky-based healthcare provider Kindred Healthcare, Inc. On Tuesday, the company and its two RehabCare Group subsidiaries agreed to pay $125 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act by knowingly causing skilled nursing facilities to submit false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation...
DOJ Catch of the Week — PharMerica Corp.
Posted 10/9/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Kentucky-based PharMerica Corp. On Wednesday, the nation’s second-largest nursing home pharmacy agreed to pay $9.25 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by soliciting and receiving kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories in exchange for promoting the anti-epileptic...
DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Hebrew Homes Health Network
Posted 06/19/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to Hebrew Homes Health Network Inc., a Florida-based operator of rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities. On Tuesday, the company -- along with its former president and executive director William Zubkoff -- agreed to pay $17 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by improperly paying...
DOJ Catch Of The Week -- PharMerica Corporation
Posted 05/15/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to PharMerica Corporation, an organization of long-term care pharmacies that dispense medications to residents of nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities across the country. Yesterday, PharMerica agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle charges it violated the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing Schedule II...