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Three Tennessee Physicians Agree To Pay $4.25 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

July 20, 2013

On July 2, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that three former physician-partners of a Tennessee cancer clinic have agreed to pay a total of $4.25 million to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false [...]

$55 Million Settlement Approved For “Nose Doctor” Malpractice Lawsuits

June 30, 2013

On June 24, 2013, an Indiana judge approved a $55 million medical malpractice settlement involving 282 former patients of the self-proclaimed “Nose Doc.” The former Indiana surgeon allegedly performed unnecessary or fraudulent surgeries on patients so that he could bill insurance compani[...]

Chicago Hospital Pulmonologist Alleged To have Performed Unnecessary Tracheotomies

June 25, 2013

Some say that medicine is a cut-throat business. A hospital on the west side of Chicago applied that adage literally. According to the FBI, a Chicago for-profit hospital was able to bill as much as $160,000 for patients who received unnecessary tracheotomies due to a pulmonologist on the hospita[...]

Kentucky Former Cardiologist To Be Sentenced In Stent Fraud Scheme

June 17, 2013

On June 4, 2013, a former cardiologist in Kentucky pleaded guilty to health care fraud for submitting a claim for an unnecessary cardiac stent procedure that was billed to Medicaid. The 51-year-old cardiologist admitted that he lied about the severity of his patient’s medical condition in ord[...]

Medicare Fraud Schemes Result In 89 Charged With $223 Million In False Billings

May 15, 2013

On May 14, 2013, the U.S. Attorney General and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that 89 people in eight U.S. cities were charged with participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in about $223 million in fraudulent billings. T[...]

South Carolina Hospital Hit With $40 Million Verdict For Illegal Kickbacks

May 11, 2013

After four weeks of trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, on May 8, 2013 a South Carolina hospital was found to have paid illegal kickbacks to 19 doctors and wrongfully billed Medicare almost $40 million between 2005 and 2009 to have the doctors continue to[...]

Colorado Nursing Home Hit With $3.7 Million Verdict For Resident’s Death

May 9, 2013

On May 6, 2013, a Pueblo, Colorado medical malpractice jury awarded the surviving daughter of a nursing home resident $3.7 million, which included $200,000 for compensatory damages and $3.5 million in punitive damages, for the alleged medical malpractice of the nursing home staff that resulted in [...]

Did Hooters Help Novartis’ Drug Sales?

May 3, 2013

Late last month it was announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division that the United States has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit filed on January 5, 2011, under the qui t[...]

Maryland Stent Doctor’s Criminal Conviction Upheld

April 25, 2013

In its written opinion filed on April 23, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the conviction of a former Maryland cardiologist convicted of implanting medically unnecessary stents in cardiac patients in Maryland. The Maryland interventional cardiologist was in pr[...]

Tennessee-Based Nursing Home Company To Pay $2.7 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

March 15, 2013

On March 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Tennessee-based nursing home manager Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (“Grace”) had agreed on March 4, 2013 to pay $2.7 million, plus interest, to settle the allegations contained[...]

Medicare Paid Nursing Homes $5.1 Billion For Poor Care In 2009

March 1, 2013

In a report issued on February 27, 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it was reported that a study of a random sample of medical records from Skilled Nursing Facilities (“SNF,” which are commonly referred to [...]

Plaintiffs Seek To Withdraw From Settlement With Pennsylvania Hospital And Major Health Insurer

January 24, 2013

A class-action lawsuit was filed against the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (“UPMC”) and the largest health insurance carrier in the area, Highmark, alleging that their actions inflated health care costs to patients by improperly using their market dominance in the geograph[...]

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