Month: June 2006

Highmark, Inc., a Pennsylvania insurance company, has entered into an agreement with the federal government to resolve allegations that it underpaid amounts due for care of certain Medicare beneficiaries....

Stryker Corp., an artificial joint manufacturer, and the Center for Neurosciences, Orthopedics & Spine have agreed to pay $345,000 to the Medicare Trust Fund to settle a federal kickback case., the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has announced that Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay more that $900 million to settle allegations of unlawful billing practices. The settlement is the second-largest...

AT&T has paid the United States $2,946,000 to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal agencies by knowingly charging them more than the actual costs and fees AT&T paid to local telephone...

Saint Barnabas Health Care System will pay $265 million to settle charges that it cheated Medicare out of more than half a billion dollars. The payment will resolve allegations that the hospitals inflated...

Piedmont Hospital, of Atlanta, Georgia, has agreed to pay more that $3 million to resolve allegations that the hospital submitted claims to federal health care programs for services that were not eligible...

Baxter International, a maker of blood-disease treatments, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a suit alleging it falsely reported the prices of drugs to the Texas Medicaid system. The suit was brought...

Mario Gabelli, the money manager, has agreed to settle charges that he defrauded the federal government by using sham companies to bid for cellular phone licenses. The terms of the settlement will not...

A private school in Union City, New Jersey, has paid the federal government $469,000 to settle charges that it billed the National School Lunch Program for meals it never served. Mesivta Sanz, a nonprofit...

Farmers Exchange Bancorporation and Farmers Exchange Bank of Cherokee, Oklahoma, will pay the federal government over $2 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to the Farm Service...