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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Category: Healthcare Fraud
Gordon Pederson of Utah posing as medical doctor to sell baseless cure for COVID-19 indicted on fraud charges
Utah resident Gordon H. Pedersen has been indicted for posing as a medical doctor to sell a baseless treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19). According...
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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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Compound King pharmacist sentenced to 10 years in prison in $21.8 million healthcare fraud scheme
A Houston pharmacist and his wife were sentenced today for their roles in an approximately $21.8 million Department of Labor (DOL) - Office of Workers Compensation Programs and Federal Employees Compensation Act fraud scheme.
George Philip Tompkins, 75, of Houston, Texas, the self-proclaimed “Compound King” and former...
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Feds arrest blood testing firm President on fraud charges for submitting $69 million in fraudulent claims for allergy and COVID-19 tests
Mark Schena, the president of a California company called Arrayit has been arrested on fraud charges for allegedly misleading investors and paying for patient referrals for the company's blood tests for allergy and COVID-19 detection. The charges were that he and Arrayit allegedly misled investors, manipulated the company's stock price, and conspired to commit...
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UTC Laboratories genetic testing to pay $42.6 million to end charges of unnecessary pharmacogentic testing and kickbacks for lab referrals
UTC Laboratories, Inc. (RenRX) has agreed to pay $41.6 million, and its three principals, Tarun Jolly, M.D., Patrick Ridgeway, and Barry Griffith, have agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims...
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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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Laboratory company pays $17million settling False Claims Act case alleging fraudulently billing Medicare for medically unnecessary feces tests
Genova Diagnostics, A laboratory company will pay the government $10 Million for allegedly tested patients' feces unnecessarily and billed the federal government, leading to charges of Medicare fraud. Now, they'll pay between $17-43 million to settle those allegations and others, according to the Department of Justice. A lawsuit filed in federal court alleged Genova improperly...
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Newman Law Offices announces settlement Encore Rehabilitation to pay $4.033 Million to settle whistleblower case
Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation and Therapy company, Encore Rehabilitation Services, LLC (Encore) which services hundreds of skilled nursing facilities in 25 states will pay $4,033,346 with interest settling a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging healthcare fraud. The case, captioned UNITED STATES EX REL REZA SAFFARIAN AND AUDREY THEILE V. ENCORE REHABILITATION SERVICES, LLC ET AL...
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