Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...