DOJ Announces $1.3 Billion Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action
The Department of Justice has announced that charges have been filed against 412 defendants, across 41 districts, to recoup approximately $1.3 billion in false billings to…
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Nationwide Study of OIG Home Health Fraud Cases Reveals Hotspots
Home health care has long been seen as a program area vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse with physicians playing a central role. The Medicare…
Read More »Walgreen Accepts Responsibility for $50 Million Kickback Case
The United States Attorney for New York, Preet Bharara announced a settlement of $50 million against Walgreen Co. (“Walgreens”), the national retail drug chain which…
Read More »Lab Fraud: Will a $256 Million Settlement Stop It?
In fiscal year 2016, Millennium Health (formerly Millennium Laboratories), agreed to pay the Government $256 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act. …
Read More »Pharmaceutical Manufacturers promoting with Copayment Coupons
HHS-OIG is raising concerns regarding copay coupons offered by pharmaceutical manufacturers. In a September 2014 special advisory bulletin on the use of copayment coupons, HHS-OIG…
Read More »The Hefty Medicare Price Tag for the Off-Label Prescriptions
Recently, the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General found that, in the six-month period from January through June 2007, an…
Read More »Texas Hospital Group Pays $27.5 Million for False Claims Act Allegations
South Texas Health System, a McAllen, Texas-based hospital group, has agreed to pay the United States $27.5 million to settle claims that it violated the…
Read More »Wyeth under Fire for Alleged Medicaid Fraud
The U.S. government and 16 states have joined in two whistleblower suits against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth. The drug company allegedly failed to pay hundreds of…
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