Century Ambulance Service Inc. (“Century Ambulance”) of Jacksonville, Florida allegedly defrauded Medicare and Medicaid out of $5 million by submitting claims for ambulance services that were unnecessary or inflated. With the help of local hospitals, Century Ambulance allegedly falsified documents and records on a daily basis regarding patients transported either…
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that AstraZeneca LP, a Delaware-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to pay the federal government $7.9 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the Anti-Kickback statute and the False Claims Act. AstraZeneca markets and sells pharmaceutical…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million to settle a relator’s allegations of fraud brought under the False Claims Act against the Minnesota-based company. Medtronic allegedly caused a number of physicians, located throughout twenty states,…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals (collectively “Community Health”) have agreed to pay the federal government $75 million to settle a relator’s allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by making illegal donations to…
On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced that Lafferty Enterprises, LLC, doing business as Trans-Star Ambulance Services (“Trans-Star”), has agreed to pay $948,000 to settle a relator’s allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing federal health care programs for medically unnecessary…
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (“SUNY”) has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle allegations made by a number of relators that its Center for Development of Human Services (“CDHS”) violated the False Claims Act by…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that North Atlantic Medical Services Inc. (“NAMS”), doing business as Regional Home Care Inc., has agreed to pay $852,378 to settle the allegations of two relators realtor’s that it had violated the federal False Claims Act and the Massachusetts False Claims Act by…
On Tuesday, the state of Nevada and the federal government announced that they had elected to intervene in a complaint filed by two relators under the False Claims Act against Creekside Hospice II LLC (“Creekside”) that alleges that it aggressively lured non-terminally ill patients into its care in order to…
A federal judge in California denied Prime Healthcare Services, Inc.’s (“Prime”) motion to dismiss a relator’s False Claims Act case alleging that the hospital group overcharged Medicare and Medicaid by more than $50 million. Prime was founded in 2001 by Dr. Prem Reddy. Thereafter, Prime engaged in a strategy of…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that CareAll Management LLC and its affiliated entities (“CareAll”) have agreed to pay $25 million, plus interest, to the United States and the state of Tennessee to settle a relator’s allegations that the home health provider violated the False Claims Act by submitting…