Abri Health Plan Inc., of Germantown Wisconsin and its parent company, Universal American Financial Corp., agreed to pay $4.8 million to the U.S. to resolve a suit brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act relating to its Medicare Part C coverage plan.
On September 27, 2011, Stephen H. Stern, a Kentucky physician, and his practice, Kentuckiana Center for Better Bone and Joint Health, agreed to pay $349,860 to the U.S. to settle claims that Stern double billed Medicare for a drug used to treat arthritis. The settlement arose from a qui tam complaint filed by Suzette L.
The article “Why is Qui Tam Litigation Often So Difficult to Resolve?” was authored by Marc S. Raspanti, Esq. and Meredith Auten, Esq. and featured in the September 2011 edition of AHLA Connections. Mr. Raspanti is founder of the firm’s Qui Tam Litigation Practice Group.
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Lydia Demski, the owner and founder of several companies, agreed to pay $800,000 to the U.S. to resolve False Claims Act allegations that a company she owned fraudulently obtained a service-disabled veteran-owned small-business (SD VOSB) contract to refurbish equipment at a NASA facility in Ohio.
Rickey Kanter, the owner and CEO of Dr. Comfort, a company that sells specialized shoes and inserts for diabetics, plead guilty to mail fraud and will pay a civil fine for improperly submitting claims for Medicare reimbursement.
Tamimi Global Company Ltd. (TAFGA), a Saudi Arabian company, agreed to pay $13 million to the U.S. government to settle criminal and civil allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks and gratuities to a KBR employee to obtain a U.S. Army subcontract. Specifically, TAFGA paid KBR subcontract manager Steven Lowell Seamans $133,000 in kickbacks to get preferential treatment for the award of a subcontract to provide dining services in Camp Arifjan in Kuwait under KBR’s LOGCAP (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program) III contract.
The Justice Department announced today that Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell Emergency Medicine Management Services Inc. (JJ&R), who handles billing services for physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, was accused of submitting false claims to Medicare and Louisiana’s Medicaid program and has agreed to settle and pay the United States $4.6 million.
A $3.85 million settlement involving a customs fraud scheme carried out by a Hong-Kong based jewelry manufacturer and its partners has recently been made public. Kirby McInerney LLP filed the action under the FCA on behalf of its client, a whistleblower who learned about the fraudulent conduct. The whistleblower will receive approximately 19% of the $3.85 million settlement.
The Government Accountability Office was requested to look into how effectively the funding provided for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Integrity Program (MIP) are being used to address the integrity of the Medicare Program.
Minnesota Transit Constructors Inc. (MnTC), a joint venture comprised of Granite Construction, C.S. McCrossan Inc. and Parsons Transportation Group, as well as a number of subcontractors, have agreed to pay the United States $4.6 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims related to a federally-funded transit construction project in Minneapolis.
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