Whistleblower Law Insights

Marion County Medical Center in Marion County, S.C. will pay $3.75 million to the federal government to resolve charges that it submitted false claims to government health care programs. The allegations...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that Medtronic’s Sofamor Danek Division will pay $40 million to settle allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act. The suit,...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo, N.Y., the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service are investigating charges that National Air Cargo overcharged the government by millions of dollars....

The U.S. Justice Department announced that Odyssey HealthCare has paid the government $12.9 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to Medicare. The statement said that Odyssey...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced in a July 13, 2006 press release that Mario Gabelli and affiliated entities will pay $130 million to settle charges he defrauded the Federal Communications Commission....

Modern Healthcare reports that the recent settlements by Tenet Healthcare and St. Barnabas Health Care System may be only the start of a flurry of hospital settlements. Tenet and St. Barnabas settled False...

Highmark, Inc., a Pennsylvania insurance company, has entered into an agreement with the federal government to resolve allegations that it underpaid amounts due for care of certain Medicare beneficiaries....

Stryker Corp., an artificial joint manufacturer, and the Center for Neurosciences, Orthopedics & Spine have agreed to pay $345,000 to the Medicare Trust Fund to settle a federal kickback case., the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has announced that Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay more that $900 million to settle allegations of unlawful billing practices. The settlement is the second-largest...

AT&T has paid the United States $2,946,000 to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal agencies by knowingly charging them more than the actual costs and fees AT&T paid to local telephone...