Month: April 2008

WASHINGTON, DC – A whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, has exposed an illegal scheme where doctors have purchased illegally imported cancer drugs as a way to cut their costs and...

Protective Products International Inc. (PPI) will pay the federal government $960,000 to resolve a False Claims Act suit, the Dept. of Justice announced on April 10, 2008. The suit alleged that PPI sold...

Radiologist Fred Steinberg, M.D., his imaging centers and related entities in Palm Beach County, Fla., have agreed to pay the federal government $7 million to resolve allegations of health care fraud,...

Medicaid Dental Center of North Carolina will pay $10.05 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations, the United States Justice Department announced on April 9, 2008. The company was accused of billing...

BOCA RATON, LA – A whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, prompted an investigation into the fraudulent billing of Medicare for CT scans and other medical imaging tests that were...

HealthEssentials Solutions, Inc., a former Kentucky-based provider of geriatric care, has admitted to submitting false claims to Medicare. The company has agreed to criminal restitution of $3.1 million...

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses Wackenhut Corp. of billing Miami-Dade County for 69,000 hours of security work that the company’s employees were never paid for. The Miami Herald reported on April...

Proposed amendments to the False Claims Act were reported favorably out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 3, according to Federal Times. The bill, S 2041, sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit that alleges fraud by Christ Hospital and Ohio Heart and Vascular Center, the Cincinnati area’s largest cardiology practice. The suit, filed...

An April 1, 2008 article in the New York Times says that whistleblowers have filed suits accusing insurers of abusing the Social Security Administration. Disability insurers can reduce payments to clients...