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KRB, a subsidiary of Halliburton, has agreed to pay the government $8 million to resolve accusations of overbilling related to the firm’s work for the Army in the Balkans, the Justice Department...

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma announced that Integris Baptist Medical Center, Inc. and Integris Health, Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $12.2 million to resolve allegations...

The United States Dept. of Justice recovered a record $3.1 billion in settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. This total...

A whistleblower suit alleging fraud by contractors hired to clean up a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant was unsealed by a federal court in Ohio. The suit accuses Bechtel-Jacobs Co. and Safety and...

Omnicare, Inc. will pay the federal government and 43 states $49.5 million to settle allegations that the pharmacy service provider defrauded Medicaid. The suit, which was initiated by two whistle-blower...

Danbury Hospital of Danbury, Connecticut, has entered into a settlement agreement with the federal government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to...

HealthSouth Corporation has paid the United States $4 million to settle civil allegations that it defrauded Medicare by submitted fraudulent claims for prosthetic and orthotic devices. Qui tam suits in...

Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Inc. (CCC) will pay the federal government $900,000 to settle allegations that it defrauded the Medicare program by using an “upcoding” scheme. The suit, which...

Keystone Mercy Health Plan, a Philadelphia-based Medicaid managed-care insurer, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a benefits-claims dispute. The suit, which began as whistle-blower action under the...

A federal judge dismissed a group of False Claims Act suits that charged natural gas companies with underreporting their production on federal lands. The 73 cases, brought by a whistleblower under the...