Month: July 2008

A Maryland pathologist has agreed to pay the United States $457, 379 to settle claims that she billed Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for medically unnecessary services and services...

W.W. Grainger, a tool and maintenance products, has paid $6 million to settle charges that it defrauded the U.S. government. A whistleblower suit filed by a former employee alleged that the company sold...

St. Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that its School of Public Health violated the FCA by mischarging supplemental pay for its faculty members...

Lester E. Cox Medical Centers of Springfield, Missouri, has agreed to pay the United States $60 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute,...

An article in the Washington Post quotes sources who say that the Justice Department doesn’t have the resources to handle the volume of whistleblower suits being filed. The 300 to 400 whistleblower...

InterDent, Inc., InterDent Service Corporation and Dedicated Dental Systems Corporation have paid the United States $377,470 to resolve allegations of fraud against Medi-Cal’s dental program, Denti-Cal....

Western Placer Unified School District has joined a qui tam lawsuit against the architect and builder of one of its middle schools. The suit alleges that NTD-Stichler and Edge Development inappropriately...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has filed a False Claims Act suit against a construction and engineering firm, accusing it of defrauding the utility. The suit, filed in federal court in Los...

The federal government expects to recover $2.2 billion for the first half of 2008, resulting from efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in federal health programs. The Dept. of Health and Human Services...

Amendments to the False Claims Act were the subject of hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Among the witnesses at the June 19 hearings on HR 4854 were qui tam attorneys...