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July 17, 2017
Former Olympia Therapy Inc. employee Vladimir Trakhter and former Tridia Hospice Care Inc. employees Paula Bourne and La’Tasha Goodwin will collectively receive a whistleblower award of more than $3.6 million from the roughly $19.5 million Olympia, Tridia and Foundations Health Solutions Inc. agreed to pay to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting to Medicare claims for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services and for hospice services to patients not eligible for the Medicare benefit, and by soliciting and receiving kickbacks to refer patients from their skilled nursing facilities to home health care provider Amber Home Care LLC.July 17, 2017
New York-based home health care company Visiting Nurse Service of New York and its subsidiaries VNS Choice and VNS Choice Community Care agreed to pay roughly $4.4 million to settle charges of violating the False Claims Act by improperly collecting monthly Medicaid payments for 365 Medicaid beneficiaries whom VNS Choice failed to timely disenroll from the VNS Choice Managed Long-Term Care Plan. Once VNS disenrolled the members, it did not repay Medicaid for the funds it had improperly received. By knowingly retaining overpayments for many of these members for more than 60 days, the VNS entities violated both the federal and state false claim acts. As a result, New York State will receive $2.63 million as part of the settlement agreement.The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by an undisclosed whistleblower. The whistleblower will receive an undisclosed whistleblower award from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJ (SDNY) NYNinth Circuit Finds Materiality in the Face of Continued Government Payment
Posted 07/14/17
By Rosie Dawn Griffin
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit revived United States ex rel. Campie v. Gilead Scis., a False Claims Act (FCA) suit against pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences and, in doing so, provided the qui tam bar with additional guidance on how the lower courts will interpret the Supreme Court’s emphasis on materiality in Universal Health Services, Inc. v....
Philadelphia Hospice Company to Pay $2M to Settle Whistleblower Case
Posted 07/7/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
A hospice company in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay to the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that it provided unnecessary hospice services.
Compassionate Care of Gwynedd Inc. is a hospice provider based in Bensalem and a subsidiary of Compassionate Care Hospice Group Inc., a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Parsippany, New...
July 6, 2017
Cathy Morris and Josie King, former employees of Compassionate Care Hospice of Atlanta, will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the $24 million the company and its parent Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc. agreed to pay to resolve charges they violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by engaging in improper financial relationships with contracted physicians to induce them to refer patients. DOJ (NDGA)July 6, 2017
Maureen Fox and Cathy Gonzales, former employees of now-defunct Home Care Hospice, Inc., will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the millions of dollars to be paid by the owners of the company to settle charges they falsely billed for hospice services that were either unnecessary or never provided. DOJ (EDPA)July 6, 2017
Whistleblowers will receive an award of more than $350,000 from the $2 million Pennsylvania hospice company Compassionate Care of Gwynedd Inc. agreed to pay to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by providing unnecessary hospice services. DOJ (DNJ)District Court Gives Short Shrift to Payment Terms in Recent Brookdale Decision
Posted 06/30/17
A recent district court decision from the Middle District of Tennessee serves as a reminder that qui tam relators would be wise to ferret out and include in their filings examples of any instances in which the government has taken enforcement action against companies involved in the type of misconduct they allege. It also underscores the point that courts must remember that the government has to pick and choose...