A former paralegal from Sanofi, Diane Ponte has filed a whistleblower action alleging that Sanofi paid tens of millions of dollars to pharmacy groups and hospitals, through consultants Accenture and DEloitte using contracts that looked legitimate but which were in fact inducements to buy Sanofi products. Ultimately the kickbacks were used...

Revelations concerning healthcare executives involved in healthcare fraud and kickbacks has been increasing in recent months. The wrongdoings includes sales frauds to upcoding to kickbacks some concerning Medicare FRaud. Daniel K. Lane Jr. was vice president and CFO of Compass Healthcare Inc., a medical equipment company headquartered in St. Louis. After...

Dignity Health will pay the United States $37 million to settle a whistleblower case asserting that 13 of its hospitals in California, Nevada and Arizona knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly, outpatient basis, the Justice Department announced today....

Davita Healthcare Partners which operates dialysis centers, has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit involving kickbacks to doctors. DaVita , one of the nation's biggest providers of dialysis services ,paid doctors hidden kickbacks as a way to get patient referrals for its dialysis clinics and to reduce or...

Two managers and operators of three medical clinics with Medicare fraud and conspiracy to pay illegal kickbacks for medical procedures that were never actually provided. Hovik Simitian, 47 and Anahit Shatvoryan, 49, were each charged in with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, six counts of health care fraud and one count...

One of the nation's largest nursing home chains agreed to pay $38 million to settle federal and state charges that it wrongly billed Medicare and Medicaid for "effectively worthless" services and failed to provide proper care for some residents. Extendicare Health Services Inc., which through its subsidiaries operates 146 skilled nursing facilities in 11 states,...

The United States Department of Justice and the New York Attorney General have reached a $10 million settlement in a newly unsealed health care fraud case against Sorkin's Rx, Ltd. a/k/a CareMed Pharmaceutical Services ("CareMed"), a national specialty pharmacy based in Nassau County, New York.Œ

Diagnostic laboratories part of a booming business of selling "biomarker" tests to help doctors predict various diseases in patients including heart disease,  may be violating federal kickback laws which prohibit paying the doctors who send in the patients blood for testing. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Health...

Optim Healthcare, a physician run healthcare organization in Georgia has agreed to pay Uncle Sam $4 million to settle False Claims allegations that it submitted inflated claims that were misidentified in order to receive higher reimbursements. The Government's investigation was initiated when it received numerous complaints that patients, who lived in the Savannah...