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.,...
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Miami-Area Resident Pleads Guilty to Participating in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
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...
Universial Health Services to Pay $6.85 Million to Settle Allegations of Providing Substandard Adolescent Psychiatric Services
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,...
Detroit Podiatrist Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme
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...
WellCare Settles with Whistleblowers
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...
Pennsylvania- Based Eusa Pharma Inc. to Pay U.S. $180,000 for Submitting Inflated Claims to Medicare
WASHINGTON – EUSA Pharma (USA) Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $180,000 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by allegedly encouraging doctors to submit inflated claims to Medicare for imaging scans, the Justice Department announced today....
Lockheed Martin Corporation Reaches $15.85 M Settlement to Resolve False Claims Act
WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin Corporation has agreed to pay $15,850,000 to settle allegations that it mischarged perishable tools used on numerous government contracts, the Department of Justice announced today. Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is one...
Oldest Qui Tam Settled. It Took 25 Years to Investigate; 17 Years to Litigate
Harbert Corporation, Harbert International, Inc., Bill Harbert International Constructions Inc., Harbert Construction Services (U.K.) Ltd. and Bilhar International Establishment have agreed to pay the United States $47 million to settle claims that they submitted...
Feds All Smiles as Dallas Dentist Pays $1.2M to Settle Medicaid Claims
A few year back Richard Malouf ranked pretty high on the list of Dallas’s most expensive homes; clearly, business at his All Smiles Dental and Orthodontics was pretty, pretty good. And then there were the private jets. But Malouf’s out of the business now: Byron...
Harbert Companies Agree to Pay $47 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Harbert Corporation, Harbert International, Inc., Bill Harbert International Constructions Inc., Harbert Construction Services (U.K.) Ltd. and Bilhar International Establishment have agreed to pay the United States $47 million to settle claims that they submitted...