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Adrianne Appel2024-06-24T17:24:00
National drug testing firm Averhealth agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle allegations, first brought by a whistleblower, that it knowingly submitted false claims to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Michigan’s Children’s Protective Services and Foster Care contracted with Averhealth, doing business in Michigan as Avertest, to drug test parents with a history of addiction, the DOJ said in a press release Thursday. The program was administered by the MDHHS and paid with a federal Social Service Block Grant, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The case resolved claims brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Sarah Riley, a physician. She will receive nearly $229,000 of the settlement total.
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Precision Toxicology has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations first brought by whistleblowers in three cases, that the company billed the federal government for unnecessary drug tests and paid kickbacks to doctors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
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A Minnesota dermatology practice, its owner, and chief executive agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle allegations, first brought by two whistleblowers, that the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statue by making false claims to Medicare.
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CityMD, the largest provider of urgent care practices across New York and New Jersey, agreed to pay approximately $12 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice addressing the alleged submission of false claims for payment for Covid-19 testing.
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It has been nearly six months now since the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division released its memorandum on the selection of compliance monitors. This article provides a critical analysis of the monitorships that received early terminations, those that remain in place, and the broader compliance lessons they impart.
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The founder of crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, received a pardon from President Donald Trump. This pardon comes almost two years after Zhao signed a plea agreement and was sentenced to a four-month prison sentence.
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A former Wells Fargo risk officer previously ordered to pay $10 million by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for her alleged role in the bank’s “fake accounts” scandal is completely off the hook, according to an OCC consent order issued Tuesday.
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