Month: January 2007

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Chicago area radiology centers paid illegal kickbacks to referring doctors. The suit was originally filed...

An Alabama doctor, currently awaiting trial on criminal charges of receiving illegal kickbacks for medical equipment, has also been charged in a civil False Claims Act suit. The civil suit, filed on behalf...

The Institute for Cancer Prevention has announced that it will pay $2.3 million to settle charges that it violated the False Claims Act. The suit had charged that IFCP unlawfully used federal grant money...

SCCI Houston, a former acute-care hospital based in Dallas, has paid $7.5 million to the federal government to resolve allegations of Medicare fraud. The defendant, which has since been acquired by Triumph...

Cardiologists with East Tennessee Heart Consultants (ETHC) have agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle claims that they kept overpayments from patients, federal health care programs, and insurance companies...

A whistleblower suit filed under the qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act accuses an Arkansas doctor of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. The suit alleges that Dr. Patrick Chan performed...

The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services has announced the creation of a state False Claims Act review page. The page states: “As enacted by section 6031...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has filed a False Claims Act suit that accuses three investors and Sovereign Bancorp. Inc. of defrauding the Small Business Administration. The suit alleges that they disguised...