Month: May 2007

Nearly half of the payments Medicare made for Part B mental health services in 2003 didn’t meet Medicare requirements, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has found. As...

The Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) has agreed to relinquish over $13.6 million in claims for federal funds and to pay the United States $66,000 to resolve fraud allegations about the school...

The Scooter Store Inc. will pay the federal government $4 million and give up pending Medicare reimbursement claims worth $13 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit and other government charges that...

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle off-label marketing claims and to stop illegal marketing practices that lead to greater abuse of the highly...

Thirty-eight people have been arrested in the first phase of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program,...

Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. of Scottsdale, Ariz., will pay the United States $9.8 million to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by promoting the use of a topical skin preparation,...

The federal government has joined a qui tam suit against a hand surgeon who allegedly submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and the military’s TRICARE program. The doctor, Houshang Seradge,...