Month: July 2005

Simi Valley Hospital paid the federal government $3.64 million to settle charges that it had submitted false Medicare claims from 1993 through 1998. The suit alleged that the hospital “up-coded”...

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has filed a lawsuit charging three pharmaceutical manufacturers with wrongfully inflating prices for prescription drugs. The scheme, which allegedly cost Florida...

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has asked state lawmakers to pass two bills he says are needed to rein in Mediacid fraud. One is a state version of the federal false claims act, which would...

A federal district court judge in Virginia has ruled that the False Claims Act does not apply to contractors who were paid by the coalition authority using Iraqi oil money. The False Claims Act, widely...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has filed suit against a maker of bulletproof vests and a ballistic fiber supplier. The complaint alleges that Second Chance Body Armor Inc. and its fiber supplier, Toyobo Co.,...

Americhoice of Pennsylvania, a managed care company, has agreed to pay $1.6 million to resolve charges that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to process or pay providers’ health claims...

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey was warned by its lawyer in 2001 that it had been double billing Medicaid since the mid-1990’s. The university billed the health insurance program...