Month: May 2008

Hartford Hospital will reimburse the Medicare program $788,960 to settle allegations that it overcharged the government for certain cancer treatments over a four-year period. The False Claims Act suit...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that it settled a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices and allocate the market for the transportation of household goods belonging to military and Defense...

Michael A. Rosin, a former dermatologist in Sarasota, Florida, will pay $11 million to resolve allegations of Medicare fraud. The whistleblowers who originated the False Claims Act suit accused Rosin of...

Medtronic Inc. will pay $75 million to resolve claims that a company it purchased engaged in Medicare fraud, according to the Boston Globe and the New York Times. The whistleblower suit was brought by...

WASHINGTON, DC – Medtronic Spine LLC, formerly known as Kyphon Inc., has agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, that...

Baptist Health South Florida Inc. will pay the United States $7,775,000 to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act and the Stark Statute between 2003 and 2005. The government alleged that the...

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), an information technology and business services company, will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations that it solicited and received improper payments on technology...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the settlement of a customs fraud case for $2.8 million. The suit, which originated as a whistleblower complaint, involved...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has asked the state’s legislators to enact a False Claims Act. A special legislative session is starting and Blumenthal thinks the legislature should...

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit against Materials and Electrochemical Research Corp., saying company officers created a false company and forged signatures to obtain millions...