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Omnicare Agrees to Settle Whistleblower Suit for $120 Million
Omnicare, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of prescription medications in nursing homes, has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. Ohio-based Omnicare will pay the federal government $120,000,000 to settle allegations that it offered pricing below fair market value to nursing homes for Medicare Part… Read More »
Boston Scientific Agrees to Settle Qui Tam Suit for $30 Million
Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC, and Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., (collectively “Guidant”) have agreed to settle a federal qui tam lawsuit for $30 million. The lawsuit was initially brought by whistleblower James Allen in Minnesota, and later joined by the United States in 2011. The whistleblower’s suit, filed under… Read More »
Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology Settles False Claims Act Whistleblower Case for $17.5 Million
California-based Kan-Di-Ki, LLC doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (“Diagnostic”) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal, the California Medicaid program. A whistle blower lawsuit was brought in 2010 under the qui tam provisions of the federal and California False Claims Acts… Read More »
Texas Orthodontist Loses Whistleblower Lawsuit
Amarillo orthodontist, David Goodwin, was recently sentenced to more than 4 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution to the State of Texas Medicaid program, after pleading guilty to one count of health care fraud. Last week, Goodwin and his clinic, Goodwin Orthodontics, was also ordered to pay $4.2 million… Read More »
Conax Florida Corp. Settles Allegations of Providing Improperly Tested or Sub-Par Equipment to the Military
Conax Florida Corp., a government contractor based in St. Petersburg, Florida, has agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it violated the False Claims Act. Conax manufacturers various products for use by the U.S. military and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”), including inertia reels and voltage references. An inertia reel device is used… Read More »
Quest and LabCorp Face Virginia and Georgia False Claim Suits
Two recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuits allege that Quest Diagnostics, Inc. (“Quest”) and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (“LabCorp”) defrauded the Virginia and Georgia Medicaid programs. The whistleblower lawsuits were both filed under the qui tam provisions of the states’ False Claims Act statutes by Hunter Laboratories LLC and its chief executive officer Chris Riedel…. Read More »
Roofing Companies Settle Federal Whistleblower Suit for $60 Million
RPM International, Inc. and its subsidiary Tremco, Inc., both based in Ohio, have agreed to settle allegations that Tremco violated the federal False Claims Act. Tremco specializes in the manufacture and sale of roofing materials and services, construction sealants, glazing and gaskets, waterproofing systems, air barrier and fire stopping systems. According to the Department… Read More »
MRI Company Agrees to Pay $3.57 Million to Settle False Claim Act Case
Imagimed LLC, its former owners, William B. Wolf III and Timothy J. Greenan, and former chief radiologist, Steven Winter, have agreed to pay $3.57 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, the Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute. Imagimed owns and operates fifteen MRI facilities, mostly in the state of… Read More »
ATI Enterprises Settles False Claims Act Cases for $3.7 Million
Texas-based ATI Enterprises, Inc. (“ATI”) has agreed to settle two separate whistleblower cases for $3.7 million. ATI operates sixteen for-profit career schools in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico under the names ATI Technical Training Center, ATI Career Training Center and ATI Career Training. The two lawsuits were initially filed by former ATI employees… Read More »
Shands Healthcare Agrees to Pay $26 Million Settle False Claims Allegations
The Department of Justice has announced the settlement of federal and Florida false claims allegations against Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics Inc., Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Inc., and Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc. (collectively, “Shands Healthcare”) relating to six hospitals located in central Florida. Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay a total of $26 million,… Read More »