Whistleblower Law Insights

HealthSouth Corp. and two physicians have agreed to pay the United States a total of $14.9 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government and paid illegal kickbacks...

The president of a Los Angeles-based ambulance company, Greybor Medical Transportation, Inc., and his wife have agreed to pay the government $6 million to settle civil allegations that they fraudulently...

Harris Methodist HEB Hospital (HEB) of Bedford, Texas, has agreed to pay the state of Texas and the federal government $1.9 million in settlement of a False Claims Act suit. HEB’s corporate parent...

Merck has agreed to pay $670 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in nominal pricing fraud. According to a December 4, 2007 article in the Corporate Crime Reporter,...

The corporate headquarters of Haven Healthcare, an operator of nursing homes, were raided by federal investigators last week, according to a December 1, 2007 posting on the website of the Hartford Courant....

Gregory Pinegar, formerly a general practice physician in Alva, Oklahoma, will pay $1.5 million to resolve civil charges of defrauding Medicare. Pinegar is currently serving a 33 month prison term after...

The Tennessee Valley Authority Inspector General and the Dept. of Justice have announced a settlement in excess of $25 million for an alleged violation of the civil False Claims Act. Three Kinder Morgan...

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed suit against Election Systems & Software, Inc., the City’s voting systems vendor, according to a November 20, 2007 press release. The suit...

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced on November 20, 2007 that he has filed a suit against Johnson & Johnson Inc. and two of its subsidiaries, accusing the drug makers of illegally promoting...

HMS Diagnostics, Inc., a sleep disorder center, reported that it is being investigated for improper Medicare billing. The company’s press release characterizes their alleged mischarging as a possible...