Month: October 2006

Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefit management company, has agreed to pay the United States $155 million plus interest to settle allegations that it defrauded federal health plans. The suit alleged...

Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator hired by the federal government to push its educational agenda, will pay $34,000 to settle False Claims Act charges. Williams admitted no wrongdoing in...

Northside hospital of Atlanta, Georgia, will pay $5.7 million to settle allegations that the hospital violated the False Claims Act. According to the suit, the hospital had improper financial and referral...

A whistleblower suit alleges that an Arkansas doctor defrauded Medicare and other federal health programs by performing unnecessary heart surgeries. The suit, which charges Doctor David Mark McCoy and...

Lourdes Perez, the owner of two of California’s largest home healthcare companies, has agreed to pay $33.8 million to settle federal charges that she defrauded Medicare and filed false tax returns...

American Medical Response has paid the United States over $9 million to resolve allegations that the ambulance company provided illegal inducements to hospitals in Texas in exchange for referrals. The...

Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $98.5 million to settle charges that its PeopleSoft unit charged the government inflated prices for software. Oracle inherited PeopleSoft’s liability under the General...

LOS ANGELES, CA – A Los Angeles woman who owned and operated two home health agencies paid the government $33.8 million to settle a whistleblower case, brought by Phillips & Cohen, alleging Medicare...

The United States Departments of Justice and of Health and Human Services have issued the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program annual report for FY 2005. During fiscal year 2005, the Federal...