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Aventis Pharmaceutical agreed to pay $95.5 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by misreporting drug prices, the Dept. of Justice announced on May 28. The government said Aventis...

President Obama has signed the Fraud Enforecment and Recovery Act into law. In his signing statement, the President stressed the importance of safeguarding the “precious taxpayer dollars” needed...

The Dept. of Justice announced on May 1 that it has intervened in a whistleblower suit against two former suppliers to the National School Lunch Program for submitting false claims to the Dept. of Agriculture....

The United States and 16 states have joined in two whistleblower suits that allege that Wyeth, a drug manufacturer, Wyeth, failed to pay rebates they were required to make to the Medicaid program. Two...

The Justice Department and the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced the creation of a new interagency effort to combat Medicare fraud. In addition to the new Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement...

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed S.F. 2082, an omnibus budget bill that includes provisions allowing private citizens who discover fraud against the state to bring qui tam actions. The law provides...

The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, Senate Bill 386, has received congressional approval and has been presented to the president for signature. The bill includes provisions that would strengthen the...

Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay $302 million to resolve allegations brought by a whistleblower that its subsidiary manufactured and sold faulty blood test kits. The tests were used to determine the...

Alta Colleges Inc. and its Texas schools will pay the United States $7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of submitting false claims for federal student aid funds. A college must meet state...

California Assembly Bill 1196 has been introduced to amend the state’s False Claims Act. According to the Legislative Counsel’s Digest the bill would specify that “claim” as used...