On Friday, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma and the Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma jointly announced that Ocean Dental, P.C. has agreed to pay $5 million to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc. (“DaVita”) has agreed to pay nearly $400 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics. DaVita is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and…
This week, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (“BMS”) and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. (“Otsuka”) asked a federal court judge in Ohio to dismiss a complaint filed against them by two relators that alleges that the pharmaceutical companies offered illegal kickbacks to physicians in order to induce them to promote off-label uses of…
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Illinois-based global pharmaceutical and health care products company Abbott Laboratories (“Abbott”) has agreed to pay $5.4 million to settle a whistleblower’s allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying illegal kickbacks to doctors in order to induce them to…
On July 29th, the US Attorney’s Office in Boston and the Department of Health and Human Services announced a settlement with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that resolves False Claims Act allegations of improper Medicare billing. Although the billing in question took place between June 2004 and March 2008, the…
Amgen, a California-based biotechnology company, has reached a settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), as a result of which the company will pay $24.9 million to resolve claims of Medicare and Medicaid fraud brought under the False Claims Act. The United States alleges that Amgen paid unlawful kickbacks…
Techota LLC, a home health care company, has agreed to a $150,000 settlement agreement with the United States to resolve all claims of liability under the federal False Claims Act. According to a complaint filed under the qui tam (whistleblower) provisions of the Act, Techota provides home health care services…
New Jersey-based Cooper Health System and Cooper University Hospital have agreed to a $12.6 million settlement to resolve claims of Medicare and Medicaid fraud in violation of the False Claims Act. The agreement was the result of a multi-year investigation by the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the…
American Sleep Medicine LLC, a Florida-based company that owns 19 diagnostic sleep testing centers throughout the United States, has agreed to pay over $15.3 million to resolve claims that it submitted false claims for payment to Medicare and two other federal health insurance programs in violation of the False Claims…
A subsidiary of Orthofix International SV, Blackstone Medical Inc., has agreed to pay the federal government $30 million to resolve allegations that Blackstone remunerated doctors with illegal kickbacks in order to induce the use of its products. Orthofix is a manufacturer of spinal implants and other products used in spinal…