Freeman Health System, a healthcare provider and hospital system located in Joplin, Mo., has agreed to pay $9,316,139 to resolve allegations that it violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act by knowingly providing incentive pay to physicians in a manner that...
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Successful Finish at Marine Corps Marathon
Sean Estes, Jesse Hoyer & Ian MacAlister after the race. James Hoyer Associates Jesse Hoyer and Sean Estes, along with another Tampa attorney Ian MacAlister, were among more than 23,000 runners who finished this year’s Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington,...
United States Sues Virginia Contractor,Triple Canopy, for Using Unqualified Security Guards in Iraq
The United States has filed a complaint against a Virginia-based contractor alleging that the company submitted false claims for unqualified security guards under a contract to provide security in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. The company, Triple...
Medicare fraud busters unveil command center
BALTIMORE — Medicare‘s war on fraud is going high-tech with the opening of a $3.6 million command center that features a giant screen and the latest computer and communications gear. That’s raising expectations, as well as some misgivings. The carpeting stills smells...
Detroit Area Physician, Home Health Agency Owner and Patient Recruiter Convicted in $14.5 Million Medicare Fraud
WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Detroit today convicted a physician, a home health agency owner and a patient recruiter for their participation in a $14.5 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s...
Boehringer Ingelheim to Pay $95 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Government Alleges Company Improperly Marketed Three Drugs Connecticut-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to pay $95 million to resolve allegations relating to the improper promotion of the stroke-prevention drug Aggrenox, the chronic...
U.S. Files False Claims Act Action Against Bank Of America
The U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit against Bank of America Corp., alleging the second-biggest U.S. bank by assets saddled taxpayers with losses by misrepresenting the quality of home loans it sold to the mortgage investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The...
Weill Cornell Medical College Defrauded Government, University Pays $1.6 Million
After being found by a federal court to have misused funding intended for HIV/AIDS research, Weill Cornell Medical College paid the government and a whistleblower about $1.6 million on Friday, according to an attorney for the lawsuit’s plaintiff. In 2003, former...
Magistrate Judge Recommends Case Against EDMC Move Forward
Positive news for a whistleblower represented by the James Hoyer Law Firm in a case against Education Management Corporation (EDMC), the 2nd largest for-profit college provider in the country. Magistrate Judge Cynthia Reed Eddy, of the U.S. District Court for the...
Houston Ambulance Company Administrator Pleads Guilty to Fraud
WASHINGTON – The administrator of CardioMax EMS, a Houston-based ambulance company, pleaded guilty today to charges that he submitted approximately $1,734,550 in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice...