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The Institute for Cancer Prevention has announced that it will pay $2.3 million to settle charges that it violated the False Claims Act. The suit had charged that IFCP unlawfully used federal grant money...

SCCI Houston, a former acute-care hospital based in Dallas, has paid $7.5 million to the federal government to resolve allegations of Medicare fraud. The defendant, which has since been acquired by Triumph...

Cardiologists with East Tennessee Heart Consultants (ETHC) have agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle claims that they kept overpayments from patients, federal health care programs, and insurance companies...

A whistleblower suit filed under the qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act accuses an Arkansas doctor of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. The suit alleges that Dr. Patrick Chan performed...

The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services has announced the creation of a state False Claims Act review page. The page states: “As enacted by section 6031...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has filed a False Claims Act suit that accuses three investors and Sovereign Bancorp. Inc. of defrauding the Small Business Administration. The suit alleges that they disguised...

A whistle-blower law suit claims that the state of Texas was duped by Johnson & Johnson into spending millions of dollars on the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. The suit, which has been joined by the...

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida issued a press release on December 21, 2006 to announce a $2.2 million settlement with the University of Miami. The settlement...

A federal law that takes effect in January 2007 will require hospitals and nursing homes to teach their employees to detect fraud and to report it to the government. The law, designed to encourage health...

Stars and Stripes for December 26, 2006 reported on the latest report of the Dept. of Defense Inspector General which details a record-setting year of recoveries through investigations conducted by the...