The Boston Globe's on-line health and science publication STAT has published an important and well developed article today, revealing evidence of shoddy care and scandalous conditions inside drug treatment centers here . The article, referencing one major company charges an average of $24,000 a month but some were not getting basic counseling.(see link below)....
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Category: Healthcare Fraud
Mylan Pharma pays $465 million to settle U.S. case alleging knowing misclassification of Epipen as generic drug
Pharmaceutical companies Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty L.P. have agreed to pay $465 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly misclassifying EpiPen as a generic drug to avoid paying rebates owed primarily to Medicaid. Congress enacted the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program to ensure that state Medicaid programs were...
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Owner/director of nursing in home healthcare agency sentenced to 75 years in prison for $13 mill. Medicare fraud scheme
The owner and director of nursing of a Houston home health agency was sentenced today to 75 years in prison for her role in a $13 million Medicare fraud scheme.
Marie Neba, 53, of Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon of the Southern District of Texas. In November 2016, Neba was...
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DOJ unveils largest nation-wide health care fraud charges of 412 including 115 doctors and nurses in 12.5 billion fraud in opioids
Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History
WASHINGTON ā Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across...
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Indiana University Health/HealthNet pay $18 mill to end whistleblower case on use of mid-wives
Indiana Whistleblower News
Indiana University Health Inc. (IU Health) and HealthNet Inc., have agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that they violated federal and state false claims laws by engaging in an illegal kickback scheme related to the referral of HealthNet's OB/GYN patients to IU Health's Methodist Hospital. Ā The settlement resolves a...
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Electronic Health Record Company pays $155 mill to end Whistleblower case. WB gets $30 million.
Electronic Health Record company pays $155 million to settle Whistleblower case. Whistleblower to receive $30 million
Burlington Vermont. The Department of Justice has announced a unique and record-breaking settlement of a False Claims Act lawsuit against eClinicalWorks, the country's leading provider of Electronic Health Record ("EHR") software. The company has agreed to pay $155 million...
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Indiana U pays $18 million to settle kickback case
Indiana University Health Inc. (IU Health) and HealthNet Inc., have agreed to pay $18 million to settle allegations that they violated federal and state false claims laws by engaging in an illegal kickback scheme related to the referral of HealthNet's OB/GYN patients to IU Health's Methodist Hospital. The United States alleged that from May...
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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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U.S. joins whistleblower suit against ambulance company alleging $20 million kickbacks for contracts
The Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower case against Paramedics Plus LLC, a large ambulance companies, asserting that is has been engaged in a 15 year kickbacks scheme. defrauding the government of $20 million. The lawsuit alleges that the company paid $20 million in kickbacks to Oklahoma's Emergency Medical Services and its President...
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Aetna, Cigna subsidiary Bravo Health, Health Net and Humana under DOJ investigation for Medicare Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating four major insurance companies four insurance companies, alleging that they submitted false Medicare claims to increase risk adjustment payments and kept overpayments from CMS.
They include, Aetna, Cigna subsidiary Bravo Health, Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana, according to papers filed last week in a...
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