August 22, 2005
University of Illinois to pay $2.5 million in settlement of whistle-blower lawsuits
The University of Illinois has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle lawsuits brought by a whistle-blower who accused the university of fraud in its transplant program. The whistle-blower is the former...
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August 22, 2005
Florida imaging centers accused of defrauding Medicare
University MRI, a chain of medical imaging centers in Boca Raton, have been accused in a whistleblower lawsuit of defrauding Medicare. United States agents, investigating charges that the chain overbilled...
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August 15, 2005
Visiting Physicians face Medicare inquiry
The nation’s largest physician house-call group is being investigated by federal authorities in Ohio on suspicion of defrauding Medicare. A criminal inquiry is proceeding and federal prosecutors...
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August 12, 2005
Mass. AG investigates allegations of substandard Big Dig concrete
Federal and Massachusetts prosecutors are investigating allegations that Aggregate Industries, the largest supplier of concrete to the Big Dig, delivered substandard concrete to the $14.6 billion project....
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August 10, 2005
Mount Vernon Hospital to pay $2.65 million in settlement of fraud claims
Mount Vernon Hospital, of Westchester County, New York, will pay $2.65 million to settle charges that it participated in an illegal Medicaid referral scheme involving kickbacks for patients who sought...
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August 09, 2005
Homecare company agrees to settlement of qui tam lawsuit
Apria Healthcare has reached a preliminary agreement for the settlement of two lawsuits involving allegations of incomplete or inaccurate documentation in Medicare billings. The lawsuits were originally...
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August 04, 2005
Harvard defendants settle False Claims Act suit
Harvard University and two senior advisors have agreed to pay over $31 million to settle allegations of defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development. The advisors were paid under a USAID grant...
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July 25, 2005
California hospital pays $3.64 million to settle false Medicare claims case
Simi Valley Hospital paid the federal government $3.64 million to settle charges that it had submitted false Medicare claims from 1993 through 1998. The suit alleged that the hospital “up-coded”...
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July 21, 2005
Florida AG sues 3 drug manufacturers
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has filed a lawsuit charging three pharmaceutical manufacturers with wrongfully inflating prices for prescription drugs. The scheme, which allegedly cost Florida...
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July 21, 2005
NY attorney general says state needs a false claims act
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has asked state lawmakers to pass two bills he says are needed to rein in Mediacid fraud. One is a state version of the federal false claims act, which would...
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