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Pennsylvania Prescription Drugs “Goodie Bags” Doctor Pays $2.8M To Settle Healthcare Fraud Claims

April 23, 2020

The U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced on March 17, 2020 that a Pennsylvania doctor who was alleged to have given out “Goodie Bags” of prescription drugs, including dangerous controlled drugs, has agreed to pay a total of $2.8 m[...]

California Physician Charged With Mail Fraud For Selling Purported “100% Cure” For COVID-19

April 21, 2020

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced on April 16, 2020 that a licensed physician who owned a med spa in San Diego, California was charged on April 16, 2020 with mail fraud in connection with the sale of what he described as a “100%” cure for COVID-19 tha[...]

VA Nursing Home Resident Bitten Over 100 Times By Ants Before His Death

October 25, 2019

“His room had ants, the ceiling, the walls, the beds. They were everywhere. The staff member says to me, ‘When we walked in here, we thought Mr. Marrable was dead. We thought he wasn’t even alive, because the ants were all over him.'” That’s how the daughter of a VA nursing[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Nursing Home Residents Alleging “Dumping” Have A Statutory Right Enforceable Under § 1983

August 2, 2019

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on July 18, 2019, “The Medicaid Act requires that states participating in Medicaid “provide for a fair mechanism . . . for hearing appeals on transfers and discharges [...]

Maryland Hospital Agrees To Pay $3,154,000 To Settle False Claims Allegations

July 16, 2019

The United States Attorney’s Office District of Maryland announced on June 27, 2019 that Anne Arundel Medical Center (“AAMC”), located in Annapolis, Maryland, has agreed to pay the United States $3,154,000 to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it submitted false cla[...]

VA Nursing Home Inspection Reports Show Veterans Being Harmed

April 12, 2019

USA Today reports that “from April through December 2018, inspectors from a private contractor cited 52 out of 99 VA nursing homes for deficiencies that caused “actual harm” to veterans. In three facilities, they found veterans’ health and safety in “immediate jeopardy,” and in eight[...]

Medication Error Leading To Veteran’s Death Results In $800,000 Settlement

January 3, 2019

The family of a 64-year-old veteran who had gone to a VA medical center in South Carolina complaining of nausea and vomiting and was given the wrong medication that led to his death on February 2, 2017 has settled the VA medical malpractice wrongful death claim for $800,000, which settlement was app[...]

Texas Doctor And Texas Pill Mill Owner Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison

October 6, 2018

A Texas physician and the owner of a Texas pain management clinic that federal prosecutors identified as a pill mill were sentenced on September 20, 2018 to 35 years (420 months) in prison for providing tens of thousands of unlawful prescriptions for millions of doses of opioids and other controlled[...]

Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals Reinstates Punitive Damages Award In Federal Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case

August 4, 2018

In an unreported opinion filed on August 2, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) reversed the district court’s grant of judgment for the nursing home defendants as to the jury’s award of punitive damages for the plaintiffs, and re[...]

$383.5M Federal Verdict Against GranuFlo Dialysis Provider DaVita

July 3, 2018

On June 27, 2018, a federal jury in Denver, Colorado returned its verdict in the amount of $383.5 million in favor of the families of three dialysis patients who suffered cardiac arrest and died after they received dialysis treatment at DaVita dialysis clinics using GranuFlo that the plaintiffs alle[...]

$240 Million Health Care Fraud Allegedly Committed By Texas Doctor

June 3, 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 14, 2018 that a 61-year-old physician based in the McAllen, Texas area has been charged in an indictment for his role in a $240 million health care fraud and international money laundering scheme. The seven-count indictment includes one count of conspi[...]

U.S. Accuses Insys Therapeutics Of Paying Kickbacks To Physicians To Prescribe Opioid Spray

June 2, 2018

The United States intervened in five lawsuits on April 13, 2018 that accuse Insys Therapeutics Inc. (“Insys”) of violating the False Claims Act in connection with the marketing of Subsys, a sublingual spray form of fentanyl (a powerful but highly addictive opioid painkiller), which was a[...]

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