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Texas Cardiologist Agrees To Pay $1.2 Million To Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations

September 21, 2025

Dr. Juan Kurdi, M.D., a cardiologist in Lubbock, Texas, has agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by issuing prescriptions for opioids and other powerful drugs outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate me[...]

Fake Nurse Illegally Treated Patients In Pennsylvania, Police Allege

September 7, 2025

On July 23, 2025, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Bureau of Criminal Investigation requested health care agencies and providers in Pennsylvania to review their employment records due to an investigation of suspected fraudulent activities involving Shannon Nicole Womack. Womack is alleged to have[...]

Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay $6M To Settle False Cost Reports Allegations

August 23, 2025

According to the June 17, 2025 Settlement Agreement (Agreement) reached between the United States of America and the Centers for Care LLC, d/b/a Centers Healthcare (Centers) along with 44 skilled nursing facilities: Centers is a limited liability company organized under New York law. Centers is rela[...]

Owner Of Durable Medical Equipment Suppliers Received 12-Year Sentence For $61 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

August 17, 2025

On July 1, 2025, a Florida man was sentenced to 12 years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to defraud Medicare with false reimbursement claims for durable medical equipment (DME). He was also ordered to pay $21,195,540.18 in restitution and forfeiture in the amount of $2[...]

324 Defendants Charged With $14.6 Billion In Intended Health Care Fraud

August 14, 2025

It was announced on June 30, 2025 that criminal charges were filed and that civil resolutions were reached in three cases in connection with alleged schemes to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and defraud federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. The charges were file[...]

Nonprofit And Affiliated Nursing Homes Agree To Pay $3.61M To Resolve False Claims Act Liability

August 2, 2025

American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corporation, and three affiliated nursing homes — Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (Cheltenham), The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place (Wilmington Place), and Samaritan Care Center and Villa (Samaritan) — have agreed to pay[...]

Health Care Software Company’s CEO Convicted Of $1B Medicare Fraud Conspiracy

August 1, 2025

A federal jury convicted the CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC (DMERx) for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion. According to court documents and evidence presented at tri[...]

UnitedHealthcare Responds To Article Claiming Payments Made To Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 25, 2025

UnitedHealthcare’s Response To May 21, 2025 Article Appearing In The Guardian [see yesterday’s Blog article]: Statement from UnitedHealthcare “The U.S. Department of Justice investigated these allegations, interviewed witnesses, and obtained thousands of documents that demonstrated[...]

The Guardian Reports That UnitedHealth Group Paid Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 24, 2025

In an article appearing in The Guardian on May 21, 2025 entitled, “Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers,” The Guardian stated: UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Holds Jury Should Decide When Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations Began To Run In Fraudulent Concealment Of Sperm Donor Claim

July 15, 2025

Anonymous Physician (“Physician”) used his own sperm to inseminate the mother of Anonymous Child I without her consent. Child was born in 1985. On May 26, 2022, Child filed a Proposed Complaint for Damages with the Indiana Department of Insurance (“IDOI”) against Physician and Anonymous Heal[...]

United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Three National Health Insurance Companies And Three Brokers Alleging Unlawful Kickbacks And Discrimination Against Disabled Americans

July 5, 2025

On May 1, 2025, the United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against three of the nation’s largest health insurance companies — Aetna Inc. and affiliates, Elevance Health Inc. (formerly known as Anthem), and Humana Inc. — and three large insurance broker [...]

New Jersey Drug And Alcohol Rehabilitation Center Agrees To Pay $19.75 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

July 4, 2025

Summit BHC New Jersey, LLC, d/b/a Seabrook, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Bridgeton, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $19.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced on April 30, 2025. As alleged, Seabrook sub[...]

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