All False Claims Act articles – Page 7
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Millennium Health to Pay $256 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Case
Millennium Health (formerly Millennium Laboratories) today reached a $256 million settlement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations that it billed for Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug and genetic testing and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive ...
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Tuomey Healthcare System to Pay $72 Million in False Claims Act Case
The Department of Justice announced last week that it has resolved a $237 million judgement against Tuomey Healthcare System to for illegally billing the Medicare program for services referred by physicians with whom the hospital had improper financial relationships. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the United States will ...
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Adventist Health to Pay $115 Million for False Claims Act Violations
Adventist Health System, a non-profit healthcare organization that operates hospitals and other health care facilities in 10 states, this week agreed to pay $115 million to the government to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by maintaining improper compensation arrangements with referring physicians and by miscoding claims. ...
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FCA’s Reach, Power Only Get Bigger
Image: 2014 was a banner year for enforcement of the False Claims Act, with more civil fines and damages than ever before—but the penalty amounts aren’t what should alarm companies; the growing list of industries in the government’s crosshairs is. “Virtually any industry that does business with the federal government ...
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DaVita Healthcare to Pay $350 Million for False Claims Act Violations
DaVita Healthcare Partners, a dialysis services provider, agreed last month to pay $350 million to the Department of Justice to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians or physician groups to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics. “This case involved ...