Month: December 2007

Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta Inc. and Saint Joseph’s Health System Inc. have agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that they defrauded Medicare. The suit, which originated as...

A whistleblower suit charges that Pfizer defrauded the government by illegally promoting off-label uses of Lipitor, according to the Wall Street Journal on December 20, 2007. The lawsuit, filed in 2004...

Hansen Building Materials has agreed to pay the state of California $42.2 million to settle allegations that the company stole 2 million cubic feet of sand. It was then sold to construction companies to...

Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., will pay the United States $7.5 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare. The suit, which originated as a whistleblower suit under the qui tam provisions...

HealthSouth Corp. and two physicians have agreed to pay the United States a total of $14.9 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government and paid illegal kickbacks...

The president of a Los Angeles-based ambulance company, Greybor Medical Transportation, Inc., and his wife have agreed to pay the government $6 million to settle civil allegations that they fraudulently...

Harris Methodist HEB Hospital (HEB) of Bedford, Texas, has agreed to pay the state of Texas and the federal government $1.9 million in settlement of a False Claims Act suit. HEB’s corporate parent...

Merck has agreed to pay $670 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in nominal pricing fraud. According to a December 4, 2007 article in the Corporate Crime Reporter,...

The corporate headquarters of Haven Healthcare, an operator of nursing homes, were raided by federal investigators last week, according to a December 1, 2007 posting on the website of the Hartford Courant....

Gregory Pinegar, formerly a general practice physician in Alva, Oklahoma, will pay $1.5 million to resolve civil charges of defrauding Medicare. Pinegar is currently serving a 33 month prison term after...