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April 22, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
BRUNSWICK, GA—Schella Hope, 47, a licensed dietitian whose business, Hope Nutritional Services, was located in Brunswick, Georgia, and Arlene Murrell, 65, a licensed dietician whose business, Quality Nutrition Services, was located in Newnan, Georgia, were charged with various health care fraud offenses in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, […]
Learn MoreApril 17, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
JOHNSTOWN, PA—Two brothers who owned a major defense contracting firm waived indictment and pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges of major fraud against the government and conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced. William Kuchera, 58, of Summerhill, Pennsylvania, and Ronald Kuchera, 51, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to two counts before […]
Learn MoreApril 16, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
CHICAGO—The owner and another senior executive of Sacred Heart Hospital and four physicians affiliated with the west side facility were arrested today for allegedly conspiring to pay and receive illegal kickbacks, including more than $225,000 in cash, along with other forms of payment, in exchange for the referral of patients insured by Medicare and Medicaid […]
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April 15, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Jose Katz, a 68-year-old cardiologist with offices in New York and New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to charges that he committed health care fraud, the US Attorney for New Jersey announced yesterday. Katz admitted that he billed Medicare Part B, Medicaid, and numerous private insurers “for unnecessary tests and unnecessary procedures based on false diagnoses […]
Learn MoreApril 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, […]
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