July 10, 2006
More hospital outlier settlements expected
Modern Healthcare reports that the recent settlements by Tenet Healthcare and St. Barnabas Health Care System may be only the start of a flurry of hospital settlements. Tenet and St. Barnabas settled False...
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June 29, 2006
Highmark Insurance settles qui tam suit
Highmark, Inc., a Pennsylvania insurance company, has entered into an agreement with the federal government to resolve allegations that it underpaid amounts due for care of certain Medicare beneficiaries....
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Clinic and manufacturer pay $345,000 in kickback case
Stryker Corp., an artificial joint manufacturer, and the Center for Neurosciences, Orthopedics & Spine have agreed to pay $345,000 to the Medicare Trust Fund to settle a federal kickback case., the...
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Tenet will pay $900 million to settle FCA charges
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has announced that Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay more that $900 million to settle allegations of unlawful billing practices. The settlement is the second-largest...
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June 28, 2006
AT&T pays nearly $3 million in qui tam suit
AT&T has paid the United States $2,946,000 to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal agencies by knowingly charging them more than the actual costs and fees AT&T paid to local telephone...
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June 16, 2006
St. Barnabas hospitals to pay $265 million to settle qui tam suit
Saint Barnabas Health Care System will pay $265 million to settle charges that it cheated Medicare out of more than half a billion dollars. The payment will resolve allegations that the hospitals inflated...
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June 13, 2006
Atlanta hospital will pay $3 million to settle False Claims Act allegations
Piedmont Hospital, of Atlanta, Georgia, has agreed to pay more that $3 million to resolve allegations that the hospital submitted claims to federal health care programs for services that were not eligible...
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Baxter International to settle Texas Medicaid fraud suit
Baxter International, a maker of blood-disease treatments, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a suit alleging it falsely reported the prices of drugs to the Texas Medicaid system. The suit was brought...
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Gabelli agrees to settle False Claims Act suit
Mario Gabelli, the money manager, has agreed to settle charges that he defrauded the federal government by using sham companies to bid for cellular phone licenses. The terms of the settlement will not...
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June 10, 2006
New Jersey school pays for school lunch fraud
A private school in Union City, New Jersey, has paid the federal government $469,000 to settle charges that it billed the National School Lunch Program for meals it never served. Mesivta Sanz, a nonprofit...
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