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…
New York-based Sevenson Environmental Services Inc. (“Sevenson”), an environmental remediation firm, has agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle allegations of kickbacks, bid-rigging, and rate inflations in connection with its contracts with the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). The alleged violations of the False Claims Act more specifically stem from the…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has recovered a record $5.69 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government during the 2014 fiscal year, ending September 30. Historically, this is the first time the department has exceeded $5 billion…
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 state of California has decided to intervene in a relator’s complaint filed under the state’s False Claims Act alleging that London-based BP plc (“BP”) and its subsidiaries defrauded taxpayers by inflating natural gas prices under their contractual arrangements as the exclusive supplier to the state of California and its…
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…
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 yesterday that Jacksonville-based North Florida Shipyards and its president will pay the federal government $1 million to resolve a relator’s allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by creating a fraudulent company in order to win contracts from the U.S. Coast Guard intended…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced today that the United States filed a civil fraud complaint against Columbia University alleging that the university submitted false claims in connection with federal grants that it received to fund work done by its International Center for AIDS…