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In May, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with Kikiktagruk Inupiat Corporation (“KIC”), an Alaska Native Corporation, and KIC Development LLC, which is a subsidiary of KIC, to resolve allegations that KIC Development had paid kickbacks to officials to win contracts for construction work at the Fort Bliss military…

Last month, a Texas-based pathology laboratory company named Inform Diagnostics agreed to pay $63.5 million to settle multiple allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. The allegations included charges that the company engaged in financial relationships with referring physicians that were deemed improper. Lab Paid for Referrals More specifically, Inform Diagnostics was accused…

Last week, a number of US attorneys announced that the federal government has settled two lawsuits against pharmacy retail giant Walgreens based on the federal False Claims Act. The first settlement, which was approved on Jan. 16, 2019, and unsealed yesterday, requires Walgreens to pay $209.2 million to settle allegations that it improperly billed…

The ambulance company Paramedics Plus and its previous owner, East Texas Medical Center, among others, have agreed to pay $21 million to settle a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit over a financial scheme in which they allegedly paid millions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid to state and local officials in Oklahoma, in a bid…

While we are used to seeing whistleblowers call out companies and doctors who defraud the Medicare and Medicaid systems, the federal False Claims Act actually applies to any government contractor who defrauds or attempts to defraud the United States on any contract in any department. In a recently unsealed case that was filed in…

As we have noted previously, The federal False Claims Act triggers civil and criminal penalties for healthcare providers and others who make fraudulent claims under any sort of government contracts, as well as under programs like Medicare and Medicaid and Veterans Administration benefits programs. The vast majority of False Claims Act settlements come out…

Late last month, a Texas-based radiation therapy company, SightLine Health, LLC, a nationally recognized operator of radiological therapy centers, agreed to pay the federal government a settlement that could cost them as much as $11.5 million, in order to resolve allegations that the company paid kickbacks to physicians who referred their services. These kickbacks…

Every year, billions of taxpayer dollars are paid to contractors and others who either file or cause to be filed false and fraudulent claims for payment to either the U.S. or various state governments. These are crimes, but finding these fraudulent claims, investigation them and finally, prosecuting those who perpetrate this fraud depend greatly…

$93 million Texas False Claim Act Verdict for Mortgage Violations After a five-week-long trial, last week, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that a federal jury in that court had issued a Texas False Claims Act verdict finding that a couple of related mortgage companies, which used to called Allied Home Mortgage…

Whistleblower Gets $4M in False Claims Act Recovery In Michigan, a former health information coder at Vibra Hospital of Southeastern Michigan named Sylvia Daniel will soon receive a reward of more than $4 million as a result of a recent settlement of claims that Vibra Healthcare LLC, a national national hospital chain based in Pennsylvania, violated the…