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Florida Brothers Receive Prison Sentences For $112M Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme

August 15, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on March 21, 2022 that two brothers from Florida who operated multiple South Florida addiction treatment facilities were sentenced to prison on March 18, 2022 for a $112 million addiction treatment fraud scheme that included paying kickbacks to patie[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Federal Appellate Court Sends Medical Malpractice Insurance Coverage Issue To State Court

August 12, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its published opinion filed on May 23, 2022, “This appeal requires us to determine whether the district court properly declined to exercise jurisdiction. Because the district court was w[...]

False Claims Act Settlements And Judgments Exceeded $5.6 Billion In Fiscal Year 2021

August 10, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on February 1, 2022 that it obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, which is the second largest annual total i[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Must Prove Intent In Criminal Cases Against Physicians Charged With Illegally Prescribing Opioids

July 4, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Must Prove Intent In Criminal Cases Against Physicians Charged With Illegally Prescribing Opioids: The United States Supreme Court stated in its June 27, 2022 opinion: “In each of these two consolidated cases, a doctor was convicted under §841 for dispensin[...]

$5.25M Vermont Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Fertility Doctor Who Used His Own Sperm To Inseminate Patient

June 11, 2022

On March 30, 2022, a federal jury in Vermont awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages against a fertility doctor who used his own genetic material to inseminate the plaintiff without her consent. The artificial insemination procedure had taken place in March 1977 a[...]

Maryland Medical Practice Paid $286,631 To Resolve Claims That It Billed For Medical Services Not Provided

June 5, 2022

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced on March 25, 2022 that a Salisbury, Maryland medical practice, Peninsula Internal Medicine, L.L.C., and the estate of its former owner have paid the United States $286,631.33 to settle allegations that Peninsula Interna[...]

Texas Physician Convicted For Unlawfully Prescribing Over 1 Million Opioid Pills

June 1, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on March 25, 2022 that a Texas physician was convicted for unlawfully prescribing more than one million pills of the opioid hydrocodone. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, James Pierre, 52, a Houston doctor, unlawfully pres[...]

Wisconsin Dentist Convicted Of Healthcare Fraud For Intentionally Breaking Patients’ Teeth

May 21, 2022

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 10, 2022, 61-year-old dentist Scott Charmoli was convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false statements related to healthcare matters. The evidence presented at trial established that[...]

Maryland Physician Indicted For Alleged Health Care Fraud Involving COVID-19

April 21, 2022

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced on April 20, 2022 that 47-year-old Ron Elfenbein, M.D. of Arnold, Maryland has been indicted for three counts of healthcare fraud for submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and other insurers for patients wh[...]

South Florida Medical Clinic Owner Sentenced To 10 Years In $42M Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

April 8, 2022

On February 11, 2022, a federal district judge in Miami sentenced Bradley Jason Kantor (“Kantor”), 49, of Key Largo, Florida, to 10 years in federal prison for submitting approximately $42 million in fraudulent health care claims to United Healthcare. From April 2013 to March 2017, Kanto[...]

Florida Medical Director Convicted In $110M Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme

April 4, 2022

On February 10, 2022, a federal jury convicted a Florida doctor in the Southern District of Florida for a health care fraud scheme that billed private health insurance companies approximately $110 million for addiction treatment services that were not medically necessary. This was the second trial c[...]

False Claims Act: Medically Unnecessary Medical Services

March 23, 2022

During the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice resolved a number of matters in which providers billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary services or services not rendered as billed. For example, SavaSeniorCare LLC and related entities agreed to [...]

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