Celgene Corporation will pay $280 million to settle a whistleblower case which claims the pharma maker used illegal marketing practices to sell its cancer drugs Thalomid and Revlimid. The whistleblower who filed the case, Beverly Brown, a saleswoman who worked at Celgene for a decade, asserted hat the company paid doctors and hired ghostwriters...
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Category: False Claims Act
Customs import duties evasion is rampant and ripe for whistleblowers
President Trump signed an executive order for CBP to ramp up efforts to combat customs law violations, especially anti-dumping and other schemes to evade out trade tariffs. The Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) which enforces US customs and trade laws is in line to receive an increase of $300 million to recruit and...
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Linde’s Lincare pays $20 million to settle Medicare suit on fraudulent billing for oxygen
Massachusetts Whistleblower News
Linde AG's Lincare unit will pay $20 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently billing the U.S. government for oxygen and respiratory care equipment.
The settlement, confirmed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts, Ā ends a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act by former employees...
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Major whistleblower settlements and judgments in 2016 — $4.7 Billion worth
More than $4.7 billion in settlements and judgments from whistleblower cases involving fraud against the government were had in 2016 ending Sept. 30. Of the $4.7 billion recovered, $2.5 billion came from the health care industry, including drug companies, medical device companies, hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, and physicians. In many of these cases, the...
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Largest state tax evader settlement in New York yields over $40 million from financial investment firm/ hedge fund
A whistleblower lawsuit brought under the New York State's False Claims Act has resulted in a settlement of $40 million against a financial investment firm Harbert Management Corp of Alabama. The case alleged that Harbert earned hundreds of millions of dollars through an office in New York for which it paid no...
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Two hospitals pay $34 million to settle DOJ case over charging Medicare for oncology services
Two Missouri hospitals will pay the United States $34,000,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today. The two Defendants are Mercy Hospital Springfield f/k/a St. John's Regional Health Center, and its affiliate, Mercy Clinic Springfield Communities f/k/a...
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Johnson & Johnson reveals investigation and subpoenas from DOJ over arthritis co-payment program
Johnson & Johnson revealed to investors on Monday its Janssen Biotech Inc. is under investigation by the United States Department of Justice regarding i a False Claims Act case about two of its arthritis drugs, while also reporting a separate probe by the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts over copayment support programs.
The company said...
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Quest Diagnostics pays $6 million to settle suit over kickbacks paid to docs to use blood testing services
Quest Diagnostics Inc. will pay $6 million to resolve a lawsuit by the United States alleging that Berkeley HeartLab Inc., of Alameda, California, violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to doctors and patients to induce the use of Berkeley for blood testing services and by charging for medically unnecessary tests. Quest, which...
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Hospice companies pay $12.21 million to settle allegations of kickbacks to doctors
International Tutoring Services, LLC, f/k/a International Tutoring Services, Inc., and d/b/a Hospice Plus; Goodwin Hospice, LLC; Phoenix Hospice, LP; Hospice Plus, L.P.; and Curo Health Services, LLC f/k/a Curo Health Services, Inc.will pay $12.21 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. Curo...
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Virginia Department of Social Services pays feds over $7 million over food stamps funds fraud allegations
The Virginia Department of Social Services is paying the United States $7,150,436 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Department of Justice announced today. SNAP was formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. Under SNAP, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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