Teva Pharmaceuticals, the Israeli generic pharmaceutical manufacturer, has settled, for $169 million, claims pending against it in Texas, California and Florida related to overpricing of its pharmaceutical products.
Sodexo, the world’s largest private food purchaser, has agreed to settle claims that it overcharged New York state school districts and the State University of New York from 2004 until 2009. For $20 million, Sodexo will settle the claims of 21 public school districts and SUNY that Sodexo failed to pass along rebates it received from the suppliers of the food and equipment.
Elan Corporation, plc, of Dublin, Ireland has agreed to settle claims related to the marketing of Zonegran, an anti-epileptic drug for which it sold the rights to a Japanese company in 2004.
Today, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. This sweeping legislation will impact fraud enforcement and whistleblower cases. We will be posting more information about the new law in the days to come.
See also http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072100512.
Orange County, California-based National Cardio Labs LLC has finalized a settlement with the government to pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted false claims for heart monitoring services.
In a newly unsealed suit under the False Claims Act, a fellow surgeon has alleged that his colleagues at Chicago’s prestigious Rush University Medical Center routinely overbooked their schedules and relied on residents to perform surgeries in violation of federal Medicare billing rules.
Advanced BioNutrition Corporation, of Columbia, Maryland, and its former chief executive officer, David Kyle, paid the federal government $934,000, stemming from violations of the False Claims Act, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Advanced BioNutrition Corporation was awarded the first phase of a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant in February 2005 to develop technology to micro-encapsulate probiotic bacteria into particles.
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, two of its member hospitals (The Fort Hamilton Hospital and The University Hospital), and University Internal Medicine Associates Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $2.
If you are aware of any person, corporation or entity that you think may be violating the Federal False Claims Act or a State False Claims Act, contact us today.