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Yale University has agreed to pay $7.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and common law by mismanaging federally-funded research grants. The grant awards were made by...

HMS Diagnostics has paid over $550,000 to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston. The government...

New York Governor David Paterson and State Medicaid Inspector General James Sheehan announced that the state recovered $551 million in funds lost to Medicaid fraud and abuse. The federal government requires...

KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and advisory firm, has released a survey that suggests that ethics in companies and organizations may be trumped by pressures to succeed. 74 percent of the 5,000 U.S. workers surveyed...

L-3 Vertex Aerospace has paid the government $4 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged the government on an Iraq war contract. The False Claims Act suit, which was originally filed...

The Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program, a collaboration between the Justice Department and the Dept. of Health and Human Services has released its annual report. The report shows that the government...

Two Tennessee hospitals, Jackson Madison General Hospital and Milan General Hospital, have agreed to pay the federal government $2.6 million and $5.3 million respectively to settle false claims allegations....

MedQuist Inc., a medical transcription service provider based in New Jersey, will pay $6.6 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations, the U.S. Dept. of Justice reported. The company provided medical...

Bayer HealthCare LLC has agreed to pay the United States $97.5 million to resolve allegations that the company paid kickbacks to diabetic suppliers and caused those suppliers to submit false claims to...

RBC Mortgage Company (RBC) will pay the federal government more than $10.71 million to resolve a False Claims Act suit that alleged the company gave the U.S. government false information about borrowers...