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April 11, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
AMARILLO — Dr. Michael David Goodwin, 63, an orthodontist who practiced in Amarillo and Crown Point, Indiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 50 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,810,960 in restitution, following his guilty plea in December 2012 to one count of health care fraud related […]
Learn MoreApril 10, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a doctor has been convicted of participating in a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme. A jury in Brooklyn Monday convicted 50-year-old Dr. Gustave Drivas of Staten Island of health care fraud conspiracy and health care fraud following an eight-week trial. He was acquitted of kickback conspiracy. Evidence showed that […]
Learn MoreApril 09, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The owners and operators of Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental-health clinic, and the clinic itself were sentenced today for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo […]
Learn MoreMarch 28, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
MELODY PETERSEN / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER UC Irvine has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle claims that its hospital violated federal laws by routinely allowing residents to administer anesthesia with no supervision by physicians and then billing Medicare as if the doctors were present. The settlement comes after a multi-year federal investigation that was […]
Learn MoreMarch 26, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Justice Department announced today that Alabama-based Caddell Construction has agreed to pay to the United States $1,150,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely reporting to the Army Corps of Engineers that it hired and mentored a Native American-owned company to work on construction projects at Fort Bragg, N.C., […]
Learn MoreMarch 25, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Hospice of Arizona L.C., along with a related entity, American Hospice Management LLC, and their parent corporation, American Hospice Management Holdings LLC, have agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to the Medicare program for ineligible hospice services, […]
Learn MoreMarch 25, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A registered nurse who fabricated nursing visit forms in connection with a $24 million home health care fraud conspiracy in Detroit pleaded guilty today for her role in the scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade, Special […]
Learn MoreMarch 21, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The federal government ramped up its war on health care fraud Wednesday, indicting another 43 people — doctors, pharmacists and home health care workers — on charges of running a massive prescription drug scheme. According to the newly unsealed indictment, five doctors alone prescribed more than 500,000 doses of OxyContin, which had a street value […]
Learn MoreMarch 20, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON — In an unusually strong letter sent to the White House on Monday, the office that handles complaints from federal whistle-blowers says it has found a pattern of problems at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Jackson, Miss., that raises serious questions about the hospital’s management practices. The problems over the last […]
Learn MoreMarch 19, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
On Wednesday, the Eastern District of Virginia declared an arbitration provision in an independent contractor agreement unconscionable, clearing the way for two plaintiffs to bring their False Claims Act (FCA) retaliation claims in Federal court. The plaintiffs were two firearms instructors previously employed by Academi Training Center, a Blackwater successor. They claimed they witnessed other […]
Learn MoreMarch 19, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Executives at two Arlington, Va.-based businesses have pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $31 million in government contract payments that should have gone to disadvantaged small businesses. The guilty pleas were announced today by U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice […]
Learn MoreMarch 18, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A former medical director for Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental-health clinic, was sentenced today to serve 144 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney […]
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