The State of Idaho has agreed to settle claims against two groups of the Actavis pharmaceutical company related to allegations that Actavis knowingly inflated reported wholesale prices of certain drugs in order to receive extra compensation from the State’s Medicaid program. For $1.
On May 24, 2010, an Irvine physician, Xinming Fu, was sentenced for his role in a scheme which bilked Medicare out of $15 million in unnecessary respiratory treatments which were not performed in accordance with the Medicare rules or not performed at all. Dr.
On March 26, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (“Bell”) will pay the United States an additional $3,718,770 to resolve several claims arising from cost charging practices on its contracts with the U.S. government. This additional amount brings the total money to be paid by Bell to $16,570,018.
Ceradyne, Inc., a subcontractor for Sikorsky Aircraft, agreed to pay the federal government $1.2 million to settle a False Claims Act suit for failing to ballistically test armor plating installed near the pilot and co-pilot in Black Hawk helicopters. Ceradyne’s settlement comes a little over a year after Sikorsky itself paid $2.9 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations stemming from the same inadequate armor plating.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has agreed to pay $6.35 Million to settle allegations of violations of the False Claims Act. The suits alleged that the Hamilton, New Jersey hospital fraudulently inflated its charges to Medicare patients to obtain larger “outlier payments.” Congress enacted the supplemental outlier payments to ensure that hospitals have incentives to treat patients whose care requires unusually high costs.
Minnesota’s False Claims Act, which will take effect July 1, 2010, differs from its federal and other state counterparts in several key respects that may have a chilling effect on qui tam actions in this state. Whether it’s “Minnesota nice” or an effective deterrent against fraud remains to be seen.
The United States and the State of New York have entered into settlement agreements with three home health agencies to resolve allegations that the agencies submitted false claims to the New York Medicaid and Medicare Programs.
The New York Medicaid Program provides coverage for home health aides only if those aides have valid certificates showing that they received proper training.
St. John’s Health System, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay the United States $13,229,348.88 to settle allegations that it submitted claims to Medicare and Medicaid that were tainted by the hospital’s financial relationships with referring physicians.
Federal law prohibits health care providers like St.
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