The Florida Society of Anesthesiologists has filed a False Claims Act action against Gastroenterologists, Endoscopy Centers, physicians and others alleging that they engaged in kickback schemes that ultimately defrauded the federal and state health care programs. The Complaint, recently unsealed, says that the kickback schemes were used to ensure that ambulatory surgical centers exclusively...

Station KXAS-TV, NBC 5 in Texas has released a news report based on an FBI affidavit for a search warrant. It says that the owner of a nursing home company regularly directed nurses to overdose hospice patients with drugs including morphine to speed their deaths and maximize profits. The news story says that one...

Respironics Inc., based in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $34.8 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for paying kickbacks in the form of free call center services to durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers that bought its masks for patients with sleep apnea, the Department of Justice announced today. Œ

Federal prosecutors are saying that Advanced BioHealing Inc. executive Todd Clawson and others paid kickbacks to VA podiatrists and clinicians who promoted the company's product, a "biologic" wound dressing. Clawson has been charged with bribery and health care fraud. In court papers, the prosecutors stated that Clawson and his coworkers at Advanced...

John Slowik who worked as the compliance officer for Olympus America, will soon collect $51 million as part of the settlement paid by Olympus to the Government in a case in which the government alleged the company paid Latin American doctors kickbacks to use its medical devices. In a qui tam whistleblower suit, he alleged...

The Department of Justice has joined a case dealing with Health Management Associates (HMA) and Tenet Healthcare hospitals where it says those companies paid kickbacks to obstetric clinics serving primarily undocumented Hispanic women in return for referral of those patients for labor and delivery at the hospital. The hospitals then billed Medicaid programs for...

An independent local pharmacy Nashville Pharmacy Services which specializes in HIV and AIDS-related medications must pay $7.8 million to settle claims that it overbilled Medicare and TennCare, including by dispensing medicine in the names of patients who had died. In a statement, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee said...