Year: 2010

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center will pay $2.92 million to settle a False Claims Act suit that alleged the the hospital defrauded Medicare. The Justice Department press release says the suit...

LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2010 – Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, a Long Island, N.Y, hospital, has agreed to pay $2.92 million, plus interest, to settle a “qui tam”...

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses J-M Manufacturing, the corporate predecessor of JM Eagle, of supplying defective PVC pipe to states and municipalities across the country. Nevada, Virginia, Delaware, Tennessee...

New Jersey has amended its False Claims Act to bring it into compliance with the federal Deficit Reduction Act. If the Inspector General of the Dept. of Health and Human services finds that the state law...

Atricure Inc., a medical device manufacturer, has agreed to pay the United States $3.76 million to resolve civil claims that it marketed its medical devices for uses that had not been approved by the FDA....

Sierra Military Health Services, LLC has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle allegations that it caused the submission of false claims to TRICARE. TRICARE is the health care program for active duty service...

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) has introduced a bill (H.R. 4444) that would impose new restrictions on the award of government contracts to organizations that have violated state or federal law. The bill would...

The Dept. of Justice announced that it has settled a False Claims Act suit against a dental management company. The company, FORBA Holdings LLC, agreed to pay $24 million to resolve allegations that it...

Tax Analysts published a letter to the editor written by Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton in response to comments by the former chief counsel for the IRS, who was critical of the IRS whistleblower...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit alleging that pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson violated the False Claims Act. The complaint alleges that J&J paid millions...