Philadelphia: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, a New Jersey-based hospital, has agreed to pay $6.35 Million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the hospital defrauded Medicare. The whistleblower lawsuit filed against the Hamilton, NJ facility alleged that the hospital fraudulently inflated its charges to Medicare patients to obtain larger reimbursements from the federal health care program.
In September 2000, the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems (UPHS) agreed to settle a civil Medicare False Claims case for $12 Million. The case was initiated by a whistleblower complaint filed by John J. Saunders. The complaint led to the government investigation with Saunders receiving more than $2 Million of the settlement money.
On May 17, 1999, Fresenius National Medical Care Holdings, Inc., N.M.C. Diagnostic Services, Inc., Biotrax International, Inc., and National Medical Care, Inc. agreed to pay the government $16.5 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act brought by several qui tam relators.
The whistleblowers, Franklin W.
One of the most actively litigated and longest-running actions in Federal False Claims Act history settled, demonstrating unprecedented coordination and cooperation among the Government and Private Counsel.
Two veteran pharmacists’ Qui Tam Action initiated the case and helped the Government recover $84 Million of $185 Million in today’s mediated final settlement reached among whistleblowers,
Saint Barnabas Corporation, the largest health care system in New Jersey and second largest employer in the state, has agreed to pay the United States $265 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey announced today.
The settlement resolves allegations that the Saint Barnabas Corporation,
SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Inc. paid the government more than $334 million to settle allegations that its clinical laboratory division defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federally funded health insurance programs. This historic settlement was the result of a joint effort between the government and “whistleblowers,” including Robert J. Merena, a former employee of SmithKline’s National Billing System.
