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Medicare Advantage Provider Seoul Medical Group Agrees To Pay More Than $62 Million To Settle False Claims Lawsuit

March 29, 2025

Seoul Medical Group Inc. and its subsidiary Advanced Medical Management Inc., headquartered in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles, have agreed to pay $58.74 million and their former president and majority owner, Dr. Min Young Cha, has agreed to pay $1.76 million for allegedly violating the False Clai[...]

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[...]

Can Hospitals Pay Physicians For Referrals?

August 8, 2024

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced on May 28, 2024 that Penn Highlands Healthcare—a Pennsylvania not-for-profit corporation operating a hospital system in north, central, and western Pennsylvania—and several of its hospitals—including P[...]

California Woman Found Guilty In $24 Million Medicare Scam For Unnecessary Medical Equipment And Repairs

May 29, 2024

On June 27, 2023, Tamara Yvonne Motley, 54, a.k.a. “Tamara Ogembe,” of Redondo Beach, was found guilty by a federal jury of 20 counts of health care fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for billing Medicare more than $24 million b[...]

$45.6M Consent Judgment Against Six California Skilled Nursing Facilities To Settle Allegations Of Kickbacks To Referring Physicians

February 1, 2024

On November 15, 2023, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that Prema Thekkek, her Vacaville-based management company, Paksn Inc., and six skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) owned by Thekkek and/or operated by Paksn have agreed to enter into a $45[...]

$29M Settlement For Overbilling Medicare For Oxygen Equipment

November 8, 2023

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington announced on August 29, 2023 that Lincare Holdings, Inc., a Florida-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of German multinational chemical corporation Linde plc, has agreed to pay $29 million and perform extensive corrective actions to resol[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Has Broad Right To Dismiss False Claims Act Cases

August 18, 2023

Government Has Broad Right To Dismiss False Claims Act Cases: One useful and effective avenue to recover money erroneously spent by the U.S. government on fraudulent health care claims has been the False Claims Act, which allows lawsuits to be filed by whistleblowers under its qui tam provisions. Un[...]

Maryland Hospital And Radiology Practice Pay $2M To Settle False Claims Act Case Regarding Billing of Services To Medicare and Medicaid

May 10, 2023

$2M To Settle False Claims Act Case: On March 20, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced that Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center, Inc. (“DCMC”) and Diagnostic Imaging Associates, LLC (“DIA”), both located in Lanham, Maryland, have agreed to[...]

North Carolina Doctor Indicted For $11 Million Durable Medical Equipment Scheme

April 5, 2023

Doctor Indicted For $11 Million: The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of North Carolina announced on June 23, 2022 that a Charlotte, North Carolina doctor has been indicted for her alleged role in a durable medical equipment (DME) scheme that defrauded federal benefits programs of more than[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Defendant In Qui Tam Lawsuit

March 7, 2023

Summary Judgment Reversed In Qui Tam Lawsuit: In its opinion filed on August 9, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held that the district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a qui tam action brough[...]

Lab Owner Convicted In $463 Million Genetic Testing Scheme To Defraud Medicare

February 17, 2023

Lab Owner Convicted In $463 Million Genetic Testing Scheme: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on December 14, 2022 that a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Minal Patel, 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, who owned LabSolutions LLC (LabSolutions), a lab enrolled with Medicare th[...]

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