By
Kyle Brasseur2024-01-04T21:28:00
The Florida-based H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Hospital agreed to pay nearly $20 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) addressing alleged violations of the False Claims Act for improperly billing federal healthcare programs.
The DOJ said in a press release Thursday that Moffitt received credit for cooperating with the agency’s investigation, including self-disclosing its alleged misconduct and remediating the issues.
The settlement total includes approximately $18.2 million, of which about $12.2 million is restitution, to be paid to the government and more than $1.3 million to be paid to the state of Florida.
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Multihospital healthcare system Penn State Health agreed to pay more than $11.7 million to resolve self-disclosed violations of Medicare rules related to improper billing.
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New Jersey-based Silver Lake Hospital agreed to pay more than $18.6 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice addressing allegations of false claims submitted to Medicare for inpatient cost outlier payments.
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Atlantic Home Health Care LLC agreed to pay nearly $10 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice addressing the alleged submission of false claims to the Department of Labor’s Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.
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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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