Physician Partners of America LLC (PPOA), headquartered in Tampa, Florida, its founder, Rodolfo Gari, and its former chief medical officer, Dr. Abraham Rivera, have agreed to pay $24.5 million to…
OKLAHOMA CITY – David Lehman (“Lehman”), paid $122,949 to settle civil False Claims Act allegations that he obtained and used Social Security benefits to which he was not entitled, announced…
WASHINGTON – BayCare Health System Inc. and entities that operate four affiliated Florida hospitals (collectively BayCare) have agreed to pay the United States $20 million to resolve allegations that BayCare…
HOUSTON – A 67-year-old podiatrist from Cypress has agreed to pay $865,000 to resolve allegations that she submitted false medical claims for the use of electro-acupuncture devices, announced U.S. Attorney…
WASHINGTON – TracFone Wireless Inc. (TracFone) has agreed to pay $13.4 million as part of a civil settlement to resolve allegations that TracFone violated the False Claims Act by signing…
Baltimore, Maryland – Anuja Kurichh, M.D., an internal medicine physician who operates a medical practice known as PHC Healthcare, LLC in College Park, Maryland, has agreed to pay the United…
ATLANTA – OGCC Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (“OGCC”) and its owner and Executive Director, Dionne Huffman, have agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims…
U.S. Attorney Leonard C Boyle, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON – A man accused of attacking at least three police officers with a chemical irritant during the riot at the Capitol last year asked a…
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Letitia James, New York State Attorney General, announced today a pair of settlement agreements with two Brooklyn-based…
SHERMAN, Texas – Ten additional Texas doctors and a healthcare executive have agreed to pay a total of $1,680,430 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving illegal kickbacks in violation…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt ARD LLC (previously Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., “Questcor,” and collectively “Mallinckrodt”), has agreed to pay $260 million as…
Silveus Ins. Group, Inc. also agreed to a year-long monitoring period and CEO James Cameron Silveus agreed to a year-long exclusion from federal programs. GRAND…
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts has reached an agreement with the Massachusetts State Police to resolve allegations that the agency failed to comply with…
Comprehensive Health Services LLC (CHS), located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has agreed to pay $930,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely representing to the…
BROOKLYN, NY – Comprehensive Health Services, LLC (CHS), located in Florida, has agreed to pay $930,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely representing to…
U.S. Attorney Leonard C Boyle, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong…
HARRISBURG, PA —The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Penn State has agreed to pay $899,824.55 to resolve allegations of civil liability for the…
FRANKFURT – A pension fund for teachers in Arkansas has settled with Allianz and dropped its lawsuit over losses in a multibillion-dollar trading debacle at the German insurer’s funds arm,…
By Nate Raymond -Viatris Inc, the drugmaker formerly known as Mylan, said on Monday it had agreed to pay $264 million to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging it engaged…
McALLEN, Texas – A 41-year-old primary care doctor has paid $504,588.40 to resolve allegations that he billed for excessive ultrasounds, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Dr. Jose Escandon operates…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Comanche County Hospital Authority (“CCHA”), Troy L. Harden, D.O., and Moncy Varkey, D.O., agreed to pay a total of $550,000 to the United States to settle civil…
Dr. Mark Stephen Wilson agreed to pay the United States $342,750 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he accepted illegal kickback payments from Brookhaven Specialty Pharmacy LLC, announced U.S.…
WASHINGTON – NCH Healthcare System (NCH), which operates two hospitals in Collier County, Florida, has agreed to pay the United States $5.5 million to resolve allegations that it made donations…
WASHINGTON – Credit Suisse Group AG entities, among six defendants in a lawsuit originally filed by Iowa Public Employees Retirement System and other retirement associations, has agreed to pay $81…