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Farmers Exchange Bancorporation and Farmers Exchange Bank of Cherokee, Oklahoma, will pay the federal government over $2 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to the Farm Service...

Insider Higher Ed published an article on May 26, 2006 on a suit filed against Chapman University, alleging that school officials lied to an accrediting body. The relators in the suit, brought under the...

Harlem Hospital will pay $2.3 million to settle civil charges that it double-billed Medicare from January 1992 through June 2001 for the same outpatient services. The hospital, part of the city’s...

Tenet Healthcare has agreed to pay $21 million to settle charges that its Alvarado Hospital in San Diego paid illegal kickbacks to doctors to increase patient admissions. The hospital chain will also sell...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has accused Abbott Laboratories of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by inflating the prices of its drugs. USA Today reported on May 18, 2006 that over a ten year period the fraud...

Lincare, a maker of home oxygen and other respiratory equipment, will pay $10 million to settle charges that it illegally paid doctors to recommend the company to patients. Doctors were given tickets to...

State governments, Indian tribes and individual whistle blowers claim that big energy companies are understating the amount and quality of natural gas they pump on federal land, and paying less than what...

Although the settlement is not yet final, Medco Health Solutions, Inc. has announced it will settle allegations by the U.S. Dept. of Justice related to the company’s handling of prescriptions for...

The Office of the Inspector General for the Health & Human Services Administration found that approximately 91 percent of physical therapy billed by physicians in the first 6 months of 2002 was inappropriately...

Maximus Inc. disclosed that it has received a subpoena from the criminal division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. The subpoena follows the filing of a False Claims Act lawsuit that claims the consulting...