On September 7, 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston announced a grand jury indictment of medical device company SpineFrontier, Inc., and two of its executives, Kingsley Chin and Aditya Humad, for violating the anti-kickback statute by allegedly paying surgeons bogus "consulting" fees to induce the surgeons to use SpineFrontier products...
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Category: False Claims Act
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pays $75 Million to settle False Claims Act case on underpayment of drug rebates owed through medicaid
Bristol-Myers Squibb (“BMS”) will pay the United States and participating states $75 Million, plus interest, to settle a case alleging it knowingly underpaid rebates owed under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Of...
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United Airline pays $49 million to settle criminal charges and civil claims for defrauding the postal service and falsifying mail delivery docs
United Airlines Inc. (United), the world’s third largest airline, has agreed to pay over $49 million to end relating to fraud on postal service contracts for transportation of international mail. According to the criminal and civil settlement agreement, United entered...
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Biogen pays $22 million to settle False Claims Act case for paying kickbakcs
Biogen will pay $22 Million To Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Liability For Paying Kickbacks
Pharmaceutical company Biogen, Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $22 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by illegally using foundations as a conduit to pay the copays of Medicare patients taking...
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United States sues Nutter Home Loans for forging certifications and using unqualified underwriters to ok Gov insured reverse mortgages
The United States has filed a complaint under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 and the False Claims Act against Nutter Home Loans, f/k/a James B. Nutter & Co. (Nutter), for forging certifications and using unqualified underwriters to approve Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages...
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Gilead Sciences Inc. pays $97 million to settle whistleblower case investigated by DOJ for paying kickbacks covering co-pays of Letairis
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead), based in Foster City, California, must pay $97 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by illegally using a foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of thousands of Medicare patients taking Gilead’s pulmonary arterial hypertension drug,...
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U.S. files major False Claims Complaint against Teva Pharma over hundreds of millions of $ in kickbacks to sell Multiple Sclerosis drug Copaxone
The United States has filed a major False Claims Act complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. (Teva), alleging that they illegally paid the Medicare co-pays for their multiple sclerosis (MS) product, Copaxone, through purportedly independent foundations that the companies used as conduits in violation of...
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Federal grand jury returns indictment on CEO of SEG Armor for illegally selling US Government Chinese made body armor through GSA
The Chief Executive Officer of Surveillance Equipment Group (SEG) and SEG Armor, Arthur Morgan of Virginia has been indicted by a federal grand jury for selling ballistic vests, helmets, riot gear and other items that were made in Mainland China. Morgan is alleged to have certified that the products were made in the United...
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Cordant Health Solutions, drug testing lab pays $12 million to settle charges it paid kickbacks for referrals of drug tests paid by Medicare
The U.S. Department of Justice and Sterling Healthcare Opco, LLC d/b/a/Cordant Health Solutions (Cordant), today settled a civil suit alleging Cordant illegally paid kickbacks to generate urine testing business from government insured consumers. Cordant has agreed to pay various government healthcare programs $11,942,913...
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Genova Diagnostics Inc. Lab pays up to $43 million to settle charges of Medicare fraud on clinically unnecessary lab gastro effects tests
Genova Diagnostics had agreed to pay up to $43 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently billed the federal government for unnecessary lab services. The complaint filed with the federal court in May 2018, Genova allegedly sought and received payment for fecal, blood and urine tests that have not been scientifically proven...
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