Christ Hospital and the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati will pay about $110 Million in a federal whistleblower lawsuit settlement. While this amount has not been formally announced, it is contained in a memorandum to the Trustees at the University of Cincinnati discussing the settlement terms. UC will now be the only owner of the…
New Jersey Hospital to Pay $6.35 Million in Medicare False Claims Act Settlement
The New-Jersey based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton will pay $6.35 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare. Allegedly, the hospital fraudulently inflated charges to its Medicare patients so that the federal health care program would provide them with larger reimbursements. Two lawsuits were filed claiming that the hospital inflated its charges in…
Doctor, Wife and Their Clinics to Pay $820,000 to Settle False Billing Claims
Doctor Abdul Naushad, his wife Wajiha Naushad, and their pain-management clinics, Advanced Pain Centers (“APC”), will pay $820,000 to settle allegations of filing false medical claims to Medicare, Missouri Medicaid and TRICARE. The settlement also resolves claims against Naushad’s billing company, Ultimate Practice Solutions, and its owner Azeem Meo. Allegedly, the defendants submitted false claims…
Drug Maker Actavis Elizabeth Pays $3.6 Million to Settle Massachusetts False Claims Act Case
Boston Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office reached a $3.6 million settlement with Actavis Elizabeth LLC, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, to resolve a Massachusetts False Claims Act case. While Actavis has not admitted any wrongdoing, the lawsuit alleged that Actavis reported inflated prices to drug industry reporting services. This allegedly resulted in the Massachusetts Medicaid…
Dey L.P. and Dey Inc. to Pay Florida $6.5 Million in Medicaid Fraud Settlement
Dey L.P. and Dey Inc. will pay Florida $6.5 million to resolve Medicaid fraud allegations of drug price manipulation. Allegedly, Dey set and reported inflated prices for Albuterol inhalants, solutions and related products that pharmacies and other providers dispense. The Florida Medicaid program reimbursed these inflated prices which caused them to overpay millions of dollars…
EMC Pays U.S. Government $87.5 Million to Settle Investigation
EMC Corp. has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle a federal investigation into its pricing practices on sales to federal government agencies, although the company has not admitted any wrongdoing on its part. The settlement ensures that EMC, which manufactures data storage equipment, will not be suspended or disbarred from selling products to the…
14 Entities Pay $15.4 Million to Settle Bid-Rigging and Price-Fixing Allegations
Trelleborg AB, a Swedish manufacturer of marine fenders and hose, along with 13 other corporations and individuals, paid the government approximately $15.4 million to settle civil allegations that they engaged in bid-rigging and price-fixing to fraudulently overbill the Navy and other federal agencies. Allegedly, Trelleborg and four of its subsidiaries conspired to submit rigged bids,…
Christiana Care Health System Pays $3.3 Million in False Claims Act Settlement
Christiana Care Health System (“CCHS”), Delaware’s largest health care provider, will pay the United States and the State of Delaware a total of $3.3 million to settle allegations that CCHS violated federal and state False Claims Acts. The lawsuit alleged CCHS submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by asserting its compliance with all federal…
Eon Labs to Pay U.S. $3.5 Million in False Claims Act Settlement
Eon Labs Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $3.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the company knowingly enabled false Medicaid claims to be made for its drug Nitroglycerin Sustained Release (SR) capsules. The company allegedly misrepresented Nitroglycerin SR’s regulatory status through false quarterly reports to the government after the FDA…
County Waste to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Alleged Violations of NYS False Claims Act
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced approximately $2.5 million in settlements for two fraud cases. In the first settlement, the Clifton Park, N.Y.-based County Waste, and its President Scott Earl, will pay nearly $1 million to the town of Colonie, N.Y. State, and a whistleblower. The company allegedly violated the New York State…