Category: Federal False Claims Act
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. In January of 2006, Elan admitted that the the DOJ and the Department of Health and Human Services were looking into its marketing practices,
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.html
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. From January 1998 through February 2004, National Cardio allegedly billed Medicare, TRICARE, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program for event 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. A total of 6 surgeons, Rush University Medical Center,
Oracle Corp., the world’s second- biggest software maker, faces a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower and the U.S. Justice Department claiming it overcharged the government by tens of millions of dollars. Oracle failed to disclose discounts that it gave its most favored commercial customers, according to a complaint in federal court in Alexandria,
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 $2.6 million to settle claims that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by engaging in a kickback-for-referral scheme,
The owner and the vice president of a Detroit-area physical therapy clinic were convicted on June 22, 2010, by a federal jury for their roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Evidence at trial established that Wayne County Therapeutic Inc.
Cochlear America, a manufacturer of cochlear implants, has settled a false claims case against it, alleging that it made illegal payments to health care providers to induce the purchase of its implant systems. Cochlear implants are small, complex electronic devices that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing.
Johnson and Johnson filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against it under the False Claims Act for allegedly paying kickbacks to Omnicare, Inc to push Johnson & Johnson drugs to nursing home patients. Omnicare earlier settled a lawsuit against it for $98 million for accepting such kickbacks, although Omnicare denied liability.
