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AmMed Direct fined $18M in bait-and-switch marketing scheme

April 13, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


Diabetic supply firm AmMed Direct will pay an $18 million penalty to settle government claims that it wrongly billed Medicare for diabetes testing supplies and other products in a bait-and-switch scheme. Most of the money — $17.6 million — will go to the U.S. government with the state of Tennessee getting $439,003 as part of […]

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China Knows How to Deter Fraud–Women Sentenced to Death for $16M Scam

April 10, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


A 30-year-old Chinese woman was sentenced to death by a court in Wenzhou for “cheating” investors of 100.11 million yuan ($16 million) losing 94 million yuan in futures and gold trading, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The death sentence for Wang Caiping – who must first serve two years in prison – came days […]

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Chris Hoyer Touted as Tech Guru

April 10, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


Chris Hoyer – Senior Partner Chris Hoyer is well known for his years as a federal and state prosecutor and civil litigator, but what many don’t know is that he’s also a cutting edge software designer.  That lesser known talent of the James Hoyer Law Firm Founding Partner is being touted on the national stage […]

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LabCorp yet to comply with Senate request, respond to federal lawsuit

April 09, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


Months after U.S. senators requested financial documents in an investigation of how medical lab and insurance companies bill customers, LabCorp is the only company that hasn’t provided information to the Senate. The inquiry is aimed at what’s termed as “pull-through” plans, which allegedly provide deep discounts on lab testing to insurance companies in exchange for their network […]

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And people say the bond between parent and child is a thing of the past?

April 05, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


Father and Daughter Sentenced for Lying to SEC Defendants Convicted of Obstructing SEC Investigation OAKLAND, CA—For conspiring to obstruct an investigation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nasser V. Hamedani and Sholeh A. Hamedani were sentenced yesterday to 25 months and 20 months, respectively, in prison, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. They were also […]

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Calloway to pay $20M to settle urine test dispute

April 04, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


WOBURN, Mass. (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $20 million settlement on Friday with Calloway Laboratories resolving allegations that the medical testing company gave unnecessary urine drug tests. Calloway Laboratories Inc., Arthur Levitan, the company’s chief executive officer, Patrick Cavanaugh, its chief operating officer, and two employees of a sober house […]

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Miami-Area Resident Pleads Guilty to Participating in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

April 02, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


WASHINGTON – A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty today for his role in structuring monetary transactions to provide cash for the furtherance of a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services […]

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Universial Health Services to Pay $6.85 Million to Settle Allegations of Providing Substandard Adolescent Psychiatric Services

March 29, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS) and two subsidiaries have reached a settlement in a False Claims Act lawsuit with the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Justice Department announced today.   Under the settlement, UHS and its subsidiaries, Keystone Education and Youth Services LLC and Keystone Marion LLC, which did business as the […]

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Detroit Podiatrist Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme

March 28, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


WASHINGTON – A Detroit-area doctor of podiatric medicine was sentenced today to one year in prison for a fraud scheme involving false billings to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Errol Sherman was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen in Detroit. […]

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WellCare Settles with Whistleblowers

March 27, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC


A successful settlement in a whistle-blower case against health insurance company WellCare is now final.  It will result in a $137.5 million payment to the federal government. The James Hoyer Law Firm represented one of four whistle-blowers in the case. James Hoyer client Clark Bolton was Supervisor of WellCare’s Special Investigations Unit and came forward […]

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