Month: March 2010

A federal judge in Nashville has found that Fresenius, the parent company of Renal Care Group, violated the False Claims Act, the Nashville Business Journal and the Tennessean reported. The judge ordered...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) includes a provision that clarifies the False Claims Act’s definition of “public disclosure.” In section 10104 of the...

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton will pay $6.35 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud raised in two whistleblower suits, the Dept. of Justice reported. The suits had alleged that...

WASHINGTON, DC – Alpharma Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to the federal government and certain states to settle a whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, that exposed an alleged...

Alpharma, a subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, will pay $42.5 million to resolve allegations that it improperly marketed the morphine-based drug Kadian. The Justice Department’s press release outlined...

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has issued its quarterly report, outlining its efforts to prevent fraud, waste and abuse in the use of stimulus funds. The funds, which were authorized...

The Justice Department announced that Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC will pay the U.S. and several states $14 million to settle fraud allegations...