Month: August 2005

The Medicaid fraud suit against Caremark, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, could have damages in excess of $500 million, according to a newly expanded whistleblower suit. Five...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed suit against 39 pharmaceutical companies, alleging they manipulated prices to artificially increase the reimbursement rate paid by the state’s Medicad...

The University of Illinois has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle lawsuits brought by a whistle-blower who accused the university of fraud in its transplant program. The whistle-blower is the former...

University MRI, a chain of medical imaging centers in Boca Raton, have been accused in a whistleblower lawsuit of defrauding Medicare. United States agents, investigating charges that the chain overbilled...

The nation’s largest physician house-call group is being investigated by federal authorities in Ohio on suspicion of defrauding Medicare. A criminal inquiry is proceeding and federal prosecutors...

Federal and Massachusetts prosecutors are investigating allegations that Aggregate Industries, the largest supplier of concrete to the Big Dig, delivered substandard concrete to the $14.6 billion project....

Mount Vernon Hospital, of Westchester County, New York, will pay $2.65 million to settle charges that it participated in an illegal Medicaid referral scheme involving kickbacks for patients who sought...

Apria Healthcare has reached a preliminary agreement for the settlement of two lawsuits involving allegations of incomplete or inaccurate documentation in Medicare billings. The lawsuits were originally...

Harvard University and two senior advisors have agreed to pay over $31 million to settle allegations of defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development. The advisors were paid under a USAID grant...