Month: November 2006

Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Inc. (CCC) will pay the federal government $900,000 to settle allegations that it defrauded the Medicare program by using an “upcoding” scheme. The suit, which...

Keystone Mercy Health Plan, a Philadelphia-based Medicaid managed-care insurer, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a benefits-claims dispute. The suit, which began as whistle-blower action under the...

A federal judge dismissed a group of False Claims Act suits that charged natural gas companies with underreporting their production on federal lands. The 73 cases, brought by a whistleblower under the...

St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center of Lincoln, Nebraska has paid the federal government and State of Nebraska $4 million to settle allegations that it knowingly failed to disclose and failed to return...

A federal jury found insurance company Amerigroup Corp. and an Illinois affiliate liable for discrimination by denying coverage to pregnant women. The jury awarded $48 million to the plaintiffs (including...

AIT Worldwide Logistic Inc., has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a whistleblower suit brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The suit alleged that the shipper provided illegal...