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By Aaron Nicodemus2023-01-30T17:13:00
Retail pharmacy chain Walgreens agreed to pay $7 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) that it overbilled the state of Tennessee’s Medicaid insurance program for Hepatitis C medications and kept the proceeds even after it discovered an employee’s misconduct.
Before 2019, TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, required prior authorization based on eligibility criteria for coverage of certain Hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral medications.
From 2014-16, a former pharmacist and store manager of a Walgreens in Kingsport, Tenn., falsified prior authorization requests for 65 TennCare patients so they could receive coverage for their Hepatitis C medications, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday in a press release. The pharmacy chain retained the proceeds from the improper claims even after the scheme came to light, the DOJ said.
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2023-02-23T18:51:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Cornerstone Healthcare Group will pay more than $21.6 million to settle allegations it filed false claims to Medicare by inflating the cost of services, billing for unauthorized services, and other violations initially brought forward by a whistleblower.
2023-02-14T19:01:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Spacelabs Healthcare agreed to pay $2.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice resolving allegations it overcharged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for medical devices.
2023-02-08T22:01:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Penalties assessed for violations of the False Claims Act topped $2.2 billion during fiscal year 2022, less than half the mark the Department of Justice reached the previous year.
2024-07-26T19:18:00Z By Jeff Dale
RTX Corp., the parent company of Raytheon, disclosed in a public filing it has reserved $1.24 billion to resolve legacy legal matters with the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Department of State.
2024-07-26T15:51:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority issued a fine of $4.5 million (3.5 million pounds) against a U.K.-based subsidiary of crypto platform Coinbase for providing services to high-risk customers in violation of FCA rules.
2024-07-26T13:36:00Z By Adrianne Appel
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 said.
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