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False Claims Act: Kickbacks In The Health Care Industry

March 22, 2022

Kickbacks in the healthcare industry are pernicious because of their potential to subvert medical decision-making and to increase healthcare costs. In addition to pursuing improper payments by drug manufacturers, the department resolved other schemes involving the willful solicitation or payment of [...]

California Medical Imaging CEO Sentenced To 5 Years In $250M Fraud Scheme

March 9, 2022

On January 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Sam Sarkis Solakyan, 40, of Glendale, California, the CEO of several medical-imaging companies, including the Glendale-based Vital Imaging Inc. and San Diego MRI Institute, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for running a s[...]

Maryland Nurse Practitioner Pleaded Guilty To Conspiracy To Distribute And Dispense Oxycodone

February 17, 2022

On January 11, 2022, a Maryland nurse practitioner pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone and one count of distribution and dispensing of oxycodone. According to the guilty plea of Justina Aburime, age 53, of Bowie, Maryland, from February 2017 to February 2020, [...]

Lap-Band Surgeon Convicted Of 28 Counts Of Wire Fraud, 3 Counts Of Mail Fraud

January 11, 2022

On December 16, 2021, a former lap-band surgeon and his company were found guilty by a federal jury of scheming to defraud private insurance companies and the Tricare health care program for military service members by fraudulently submitting an estimated $355 million in claims related to the 1-800-[...]

Texas Pain Management Physicians Pay $3.9 Million For Alleged Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing

January 1, 2022

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 22, 2021 that two Texas physicians, Robert Wills and Brannon Frank, have agreed to pay $3.9 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE for medically unnecessary urine [...]

Medical Device Company Arthrex To Pay $16 Million To Resolve Kickback Allegations

December 22, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 8, 2021 that Arthrex Inc., a Florida-based medical device company, has agreed to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks that caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare program. The federal governm[...]

Anesthesia Providers And Outpatient Surgery Centers Pay $28M To Resolve Kickback And False Claims Act Allegations

December 21, 2021

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Georgia announced on November 9, 2021 that three anesthesia providers and several Georgia outpatient surgery centers, as well as their physician-owners and an administrator, agreed to pay more than $28 million to resolve allegations that they enter[...]

Fertility Clinic Sued After IVF Mixup Caused Two Couples To Raise The Other Couple’s Child

December 17, 2021

Alexander and Daphna Cardinale allege that the fertility clinic where they went for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures implanted another couple’s embryo into Daphna and transferred their embryo into the other woman. As a result, the couples were unknowingly raising the other couple’[...]

Arkansas Man Charged In $100 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud Scheme

December 7, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 3, 2021 that a federal grand jury in the Western District of Arkansas returned an indictment on November 2, 2021 charging an Arkansas man who owned or managed numerous diagnostic testing laboratories with health care fraud in connection with over [...]

Mississippi Podiatrist Charged For Alleged Foot Bath Scheme

December 3, 2021

A federal grand jury in Oxford, Mississippi returned an indictment on October 27, 2021 charging a Mississippi podiatrist with a scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including Medicare, by prescribing and dispensing medically unnecessary medications and ordering medically unnecessary testi[...]

Michigan Pain Doctor Convicted In $100 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

November 8, 2021

A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted a Michigan doctor on September 22, 2021 for his role in masterminding and executing a complex scheme to defraud Medicare and other health insurance programs by administering medically unnecessary spinal injections in exchange for prescript[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Allows Fraudulent Concealment Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

November 2, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on October 6, 2021 in an Iowa medical malpractice case: “The medical professionals assert the action is time-barred by the statute of repose set forth in Iowa Code section 614.1(9) (2018). Linda’s e[...]

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