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Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

June 22, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on June 17, 2014 that it is intervening in a federal whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam lawsuit) alleging that a large California-based hospitalist company that employs 2,500 hospitalists (physicians who work only in hospitals and other long-term care facilitie[...]

13 Medicare Part B High-Billing Clinicians Responsible For $34M In Overpayments In 2009

December 29, 2013

In a report issued in December 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), it was reported that 13 Medicare Part B clinicians, each of whom billed Medicare $3 million or more in 2009, were responsible for mor[...]

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[...]

Incentive Payments For Transition To Electronic Health Records: Is Medicare Being Defrauded?

December 15, 2012

In an effort to provide incentives to physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers to transition from paper health care records to electronic health care records, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation in 2009 as part of the economic stimulus package to give physicians grants (money tha[...]

Chicago Psychiatrist Charged With Receiving Illegal Kickbacks And Filing False Claims

November 17, 2012

The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced on November 15, 2012 the filing of a civil fraud lawsuit against a Chicago psychiatrist, alleging that the psychiatrist received illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing anti-psychotic drugs and had [...]

Medical Device Manufacturer Agrees To Settle Illegal Kickbacks Claim

November 12, 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 2, 2012 that Orthofix International NV (“Orthofix”), a spinal implant and other spinal products manufacturer headquartered in Curacao, has agreed to pay the United States $30 million to settle allegations that its subsidiary, Blacksto[...]

New York Hospital Agrees To Pay $7 Million Civil Fraud Settlement

October 28, 2012

On October 24, 2012, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that a New York public hospital, Westchester Medical Center (“WMC”), through its parent corporation, has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a federal civil fraud lawsuit filed under the False Claims A[...]

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