- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
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Adrianne Appel2024-07-26T13:36:00
Admera Health agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations first brought by two whistleblowers that it paid kickbacks to third-party contractors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
New Jersey-based Admera will pay nearly $5.4 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute and nearly $148,000 to individual states over reimbursed claims to Medicare, the DOJ said in a press release Wednesday.
The case resolves claims first brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Sunil Wadwa and Ken Newton, co-founders of Financial Halo–a former third-party marketer of Admera. The whistleblowers will receive more than $862,000, the DOJ said.
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Walgreens agreed to pay nearly $107 million to resolve allegations, first brought by two whisteblowers, that it improperly billed federal healthcare programs for prescriptions that were never picked up or delivered.
Home health and hospice agency Intrepid USA agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle allegations, first brought by four whistleblowers, that its facilities billed Medicare for services patients were not qualified to receive, according to the Department of Justice.
Laboratory supply company Avantor agreed to pay $5.3 million to settle allegations, first brought by a whistleblower, that it overcharged four federal agencies and failed to comply with chemical regulations, the Department of Justice said.
Gurbir Grewal, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, will step down from his post Oct. 11. Grewal, who had served as the division’s director since 2021, will be replaced by Sanjay Wadhwa, currently the division’s deputy director, the SEC said.
T-Mobile, which experienced three huge data breaches in the past three years, agreed to pay $31.5 million in penalties and remediation for failing to protect millions of its customers’ personal information as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission.
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority fined Starling Bank, Britain’s first digital bank, nearly 29 million pounds (U.S. $38.5 million) for repeated failures related to onboarding high-risk customers.
