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By Jeff Dale2023-06-16T16:17:00
A South Carolina-based healthcare system agreed to pay $36.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) addressing alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), Stark Law, and Anti-Kickback Statute.
St. Francis Physician Services, St. Francis Hospital, and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System agreed to resolve allegations they paid orthopedic surgeons based on the volume or value of referrals, leading to false claims submitted to Medicare and TRICARE, the DOJ said in a press release Thursday.
The settlement resolves a lawsuit initially brought by Daniel Lee, chief of orthopedics at St. Francis from 2007-08, under the FCA’s qui tam provisions. According to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Lee blew the whistle on St. Francis after documenting Stark Law violations, including “payments to employed orthopedic surgeons based in part on the value of their referrals to the hospital system.”
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2023-12-19T22:20:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Indiana-based Community Health Network agreed to pay $345 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice resolving allegations it overcompensated physicians it employed at a rate that violated the Stark Law.
2023-11-16T19:53:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Prema Thekkek and the six skilled nursing homes she owned through her company, Paksn, agreed to pay $45.6 million in entering a consent judgment with the Department of Justice to resolve allegations employees paid kickbacks to doctors who brought patients to them.
2023-07-24T18:51:00Z By Jeff Dale
Booz Allen Hamilton agreed to pay approximately $377.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice regarding alleged False Claims Act violations stemming from improper billing of commercial and international costs in government contracts.
2024-10-22T21:18:00Z By Adrianne Appel
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.
2024-10-22T16:08:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Fund management company WisdomTree will pay $4 million to settle allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly invested in fossil fuel and tobacco companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds despite promising to avoid them.
2024-10-18T18:10:00Z By Adrianne Appel
A Vietnamese alcohol company has agreed to pay $860,000 to settle allegations by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that its business with North Korea involved U.S. financial institutions.
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