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Tennessee Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Agrees to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations for $9.25 M

April 17, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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The Department of Justice announced today that CRC Health Corp. (CRC) has agreed to pay $9.25 million to the federal government and the State of Tennessee to settle allegations that CRC knowingly submitted false claims by providing substandard treatment to adult and adolescent Medicaid patients suffering from alcohol and drug addiction at its facility in […]

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Vermont Introducing Legislation to Add State False Claims Act

April 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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MONTPELIER — At the suggestion of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, Senate lawmakers will introduce false claims legislation next week targeted at preventing fraud in the state’s health care system. “As we’re moving to a world where the state’s role in health care is greatly expanded, ensuring that Vermont has the tools to protect its […]

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SEC Announces Additional Reward for First Whistleblower

April 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Washington D.C., April 4, 2014 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the whistleblower who received the first award under the agency’s new whistleblower program will receive an additional $150,000 payout after the SEC collected additional funds in the case. The whistleblower, who the SEC did not identify in order to protect confidentiality, […]

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Pennsylvania and Vermont Student-Loan Agencies’ Suit Revived

April 03, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Pennsylvania and Vermont student-loan agencies must face false-billing claims brought in 2007 by a former U.S. Education Department employee, a federal appeals court ruled, reviving the whistle-blower lawsuit. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. aren’t subject to sufficient state control to protect them from suits under the U.S. False Claims […]

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Whistleblower Programs Beefed Up for Federal Agencies

March 31, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Burned by its failure to catch the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, despite years of warnings from a tipster, the Securities and Exchange Commission couldn’t say no when Congress ordered it to pay whistleblowers. There’s little love in official Washington for the Edward Snowden kind that takes secrets to the media. But people who turn in […]

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Duke University, Agrees to Pay $1 Million for Alleged False Claims Submitted to Federal Health Care Programs

March 24, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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RALEIGH – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas G. Walker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced jointly that Duke University Health System, Inc. (Duke University Health System) has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations under the U.S. and North Carolina False Claims Acts that it made […]

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Supreme Court Extends Whistleblower Protections

March 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided whistleblower protections apply not just to publicly traded companies but also to subcontractors that do business with them. The justices voted 6-3 along non-ideological lines in a ruling that extends whistleblower protections to investment advisers, law firms, accounting firms and other such businesses working for public companies. The court […]

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American Family Care to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle False Claims Charge

March 18, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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American Family Care will pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was appropriate. American Family Care is a network of walk-in medical clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with offices in Alabama, Tennessee […]

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Houston Jury Convicts All Seven Defendants in $97 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

March 13, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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A federal jury in Houston today convicted two owners of a former Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care P.A. (Spectrum), several of its employees and the owners of certain Houston group care homes for their participation in a $97 million Medicare fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal […]

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Halifax Hospital Partially Settles Whistleblower Case for $85 Million

March 05, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Halifax Hospital agreed to pay a record-setting $85 million to settle part of a whistleblower case pending against the company.  The James Hoyer Law Firm serves as local counsel in the case, along side the Wilbanks & Bridges Law Firm in Atlanta.  As reported in the Orlando Sentinel, the lawsuit alleges Medicare fraud and more […]

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James Hoyer Whistleblower Case Leads to $193 Million Settlement with Endo Pharmaceuticals

February 21, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Endo Health Solutions and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will pay $192.7 million to settle civil and criminal charges stemming from a whistleblower case that the company illegally marketed a pain treatment patch called Lidoderm.  The settlement comes after an Endo insider blew the whistle on the company’s efforts to market Lidoderm off-label, for uses […]

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MPRI Inc. Agrees to Pay $3.2 Million for False Labor Charges on Contract to Support Army in Afghanistan

February 13, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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MPRI Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false labor charges on a contract to support the Army in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today. MPRI is a Chantilly, Virginia-based company. “We will not tolerate contractors that bill for work that is not performed,” said Assistant Attorney General for […]

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