Month: November 2006

Larkin Community Hospital in Miami and its current and former owners have paid $15.4 million to settle federal and Florida civil health care fraud claims against them. The Justice Department filed a False...

Amerigroup, a managed care provider, is seeking to reduce the damages awarded by a jury last month. The jury had found that Amerigroup discriminated against pregnant women in order to avoid paying for...

KRB, a subsidiary of Halliburton, has agreed to pay the government $8 million to resolve accusations of overbilling related to the firm’s work for the Army in the Balkans, the Justice Department...

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma announced that Integris Baptist Medical Center, Inc. and Integris Health, Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $12.2 million to resolve allegations...

WASHINGTON, DC – Integris Baptist Medical Center has agreed to pay $12.2 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the Oklahoma City hospital substantially overbilled...

The United States Dept. of Justice recovered a record $3.1 billion in settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. This total...

A whistleblower suit alleging fraud by contractors hired to clean up a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant was unsealed by a federal court in Ohio. The suit accuses Bechtel-Jacobs Co. and Safety and...

Omnicare, Inc. will pay the federal government and 43 states $49.5 million to settle allegations that the pharmacy service provider defrauded Medicaid. The suit, which was initiated by two whistle-blower...

Danbury Hospital of Danbury, Connecticut, has entered into a settlement agreement with the federal government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to...

HealthSouth Corporation has paid the United States $4 million to settle civil allegations that it defrauded Medicare by submitted fraudulent claims for prosthetic and orthotic devices. Qui tam suits in...