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Whistleblower News From The Inside — September 8, 2016

Posted  September 8, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Diabetic medical equipment companies to pay more than $12M to resolve FCA charges – Two New Jersey diabetic medical equipment companies and the two brothers who own them will pay more than $12.2M to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act by cold calling Medicare beneficiaries to coerce them into purchasing expensive durable medical equipment. Corporate Crime Reporter

United States files FCA complaint against Vanguard Healthcare, LLC – The U.S. accused Brentwood, Tennessee-headquartered Vanguard Healthcare, LLC of forging physician and nurse signatures on required nursing facility pre-admission forms, and submitting false claims to Medicare and TennCare for non-existent or grossly substandard skilled nursing home services at its 14 long-term care facilities located across the United States. Murfreesboro Post

DOJ considering criminal charges against HSBC – In the wake of a 2012 deferred prosecution agreement resulting from HSBC’s improper involvement with, among others, Mexican drug cartels and Iran, the Department of Justice is scrutinizing  newly uncovered and potentially illegal foreign-exchange desk conduct at the bank. Bloomberg

Whistleblower: collapse of ITT offers “a final sense of justice” – Rodney Lipscomb, the former dean of ITT Technical Institutes who blew the whistle on the school’s practice of luring students under false pretenses to secure federal financial aid funding, opines on the school’s recent collapse. Market Watch

Two psychologists plead guilty to $25M nursing home scam – Louisiana doctors Stubblefield and Teal billed Medicare for thousands of non-existent or medically unnecessary tests the psychologists claimed to have administered to nursing home residents. USAO Eastern District of Louisiana

Union launches website to help workers blow the whistle on medical fraud – UNITE HERE, a nationwide labor union with more than 270 thousand members, launched www.againstfraud.org, a website designed to enable workers to report healthcare fraud they see on the job. Business Wire