Month: December 2006

A whistle-blower law suit claims that the state of Texas was duped by Johnson & Johnson into spending millions of dollars on the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. The suit, which has been joined by the...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida issued a press release on December 21, 2006 to announce a $2.2 million settlement with the University of Miami. The settlement...

A federal law that takes effect in January 2007 will require hospitals and nursing homes to teach their employees to detect fraud and to report it to the government. The law, designed to encourage health...

Stars and Stripes for December 26, 2006 reported on the latest report of the Dept. of Defense Inspector General which details a record-setting year of recoveries through investigations conducted by the...

Cook County, Illinois, has agreed to pay the federal government $5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the county mismanaged a federally funded study involving pregnant drug addicts. The lawsuit originated...

President Bush signed a new law that will allow whistleblowers who turn in tax cheats to share up to 30 percent of the recovery. Public Radio’s Marketplace ran a story on the new law on December...

A whistle-blower suit originally filed in 1995 is scheduled to go to trial in early 2007. The suit, filed under the qui tam provisions of the Federal False Claims Act, alleges that Bill Harbert International...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has sent a letter to State Medicaid agencies regarding the implementation of Section 6032 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171). This...

Oregon Imaging Center, a Eugene, radiology laboratory, has paid $510,000 to settle claims that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for radiology tests not ordered by treating physicians. This does not appear...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that an administrative audit, report or investigation prepared by a state entity qualifies as a public disclosure for purposes of barring...