Month: September 2008

New York’s Staten Island University Hospital will pay $88.9 million to settle allegations it had defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and an insurance program covering the military. According to the U.S....

McClatchy newspapers reports that the U.S. Attorney in Colorado was blocked from supporting a whistleblower suit against Kerr-McGee. U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said that senior Justice Dept. officials overruled...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a $28 million civil settlement with Abbott Laboratories Inc. The settlement resolves the state’s claims that the drug manufacturer falsely reported drug prices...

The Denver Post reports that the 10th Circuit has reversed a lower court dismissal of a $7.6 million jury verdict against Kerr-McGee. The suit, brought by a former Minerals Management Service auditor,...

The federal government filed a civil suit against Boeing, alleging that the company unlawfully inflated the price it charged the Air Force to manufacture the Towed Decoy System for the B-1 bomber. The...

A synopsis of an article published in the September 2, 2008 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine: “Federal regulators have aggressively prosecuted health care fraud since the early 1990s, leading...

Investigators from the US Attorney’s Office in Buffalo and the US Dept. of Health and Human Services are looking into health care fraud involving kyphoplasty, according to a report in the Indiana...

The rate of improper Medicare payments for wheelchairs and other durable medical equipment is much higher than the government has estimated, according to a report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services’...

California Attorney General Edmund Brown announced a settlement with Citibank regarding the company’s illegal “account sweeping” program. The company used a computer program that wrongfully...