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Former CFO Pleads Guilty To Stealing Over $4.8M From Virginia Birth Injury Fund

February 9, 2025

A Providence Forge, Virginia man pled guilty on October 8, 2024 to embezzling funds from his former employer, the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program (Birth-Injury Program). According to court documents, John Hunter Raines, 38, was the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy D[...]

Dallas Anesthesiologist Convicted Of Tampering With IV Bags Sentenced To 190 Years In Prison

January 22, 2025

On November 20, 2024, a Dallas anesthesiologist who injected dangerous drugs into patient IV bags, leading to one death and numerous cardiac emergencies, was sentenced to 190 years in prison. Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., 60, was charged by criminal complaint in September 2022 and indicted the followi[...]

Criminal Convictions And Civil Settlements Announced In Nationwide Telemedicine Fraud Schemes

January 21, 2025

The United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan announced on November 18, 2024 two criminal convictions and three civil settlements against a second wave of doctors who participated in nationwide telemedicine fraud schemes by ordering medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic[...]

UCHealth Pays $23M To Resolve Allegations Of Fraudulent Billing For Emergency Department Visits

January 14, 2025

The United States Attorney’s Office District of Colorado announced on November 12, 2024 that University of Colorado Health, known as UCHealth and headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, has agreed to pay $23 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in seeking and re[...]

Generic Drugs Price-Setting Conspiracies Allegations Settled For $49.1 Million By Two Generic Drug Companies

January 7, 2025

A coalition of 50 states and territories, led by Connecticut, announced on October 31, 2024 two significant cooperation agreements and settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiraci[...]

Teva Pharmaceuticals Will Pay $450M In False Claims Act Settlement To Resolve Kickback Allegations Relating To Copayments And Price Fixing

December 17, 2024

The United States Department of Justice announced on October 10, 2024 that Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Teva USA) and Teva Neuroscience Inc. have agreed to pay $450 million to resolve two matters that allege Teva violated the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the False Claims Act (FCA). Teva, headqu[...]

Urine Testing Lab Agrees To Pay $27M To Settle Allegedly False Claims

December 9, 2024

Precision Toxicology, doing business as Precision Diagnostics, has agreed to pay $27 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, and for prov[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules District Court Misapplied Coconspirator Exclusion To Hearsay Rule In Healthcare Fraud Case

December 2, 2024

The Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) is a federal law prohibiting people from referring or accepting the referral of patients covered by a federal healthcare program in exchange for a payment. 42 U.S.C. § 1320a–7b. This statute was allegedly violated by John Holland, William Moore, and E[...]

Walgreens Agrees To Pay $106.8M To Settle Allegations It Billed For Prescriptions Never Picked Up

November 8, 2024

The United States Department of Justice announced on September 13, 2024 that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walgreen Co. (together, Walgreens) have agreed to pay $106.8 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and state statutes for billing government health care programs for[...]

Massachusetts Nursing Home Chain Agrees To $4M Settlement Regarding Staffing Shortage Claims

October 13, 2024

On June 10, 2024, the Attorney General of Massachusetts announced a $4 million settlement with Next Step Healthcare, LLC (“Next Step”), a Woburn-based long-term care management company that operates sixteen nursing homes in Massachusetts. The settlement, which is the largest nursing home settlem[...]

$35.8M Awarded In Back Wages After Investigation Found Nursing Homes Wage Theft

October 2, 2024

The U. S. Department of Labor announced on July 30, 2024 that a Pennsylvania federal court has awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers employed by the operators of 15 residential skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living facil[...]

What To Do If Your Medical Provider Changed Your Medical Records

September 23, 2024

We have blogged about changed medical records in the past: A Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a Pennsylvania hospital alleged that the defendant hospital and its[...]

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