The Department of Justice recently announced that Genesis Healthcare Inc. will pay $53.6 million to resolve allegations that it and its subsidiaries submitted false claims…
Read More »Prestige Administrative Services, LLC d/b/a Prestige Healthcare (Prestige), headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky has agreed to pay the United States to resolve genetic testing fraud allegations…
Read More »Recently, the Department of Justice announced that TeamHealth Holdings (successor in interest to IPC Healthcare Inc.) has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve upcoding…
Read More »"Ambulance service companies should be focused on the needs of the patients,” said HHS Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne. He continued:…
Read More »Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, announced recently that the Department of Justice obtained more than $4.7…
Read More »The vast majority of False Claims Act settlements involving kickback allegations have been instances where healthcare providers have allegedly received kickbacks for utilizing a manufacturer’s…
Read More »Recently, the Justice Department announced a first-of-its-kind settlement involving allegations that a health system violated the False Claims Act by retaining Medicaid overpayments for more…
Read More »In a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, “In-Office Testing by Doctors Lifts Medicare Costs,” it was revealed that a sizeable chunk of the Medicare…
Read More »In recent years, the federal government has reviewed the issue of copayment assistance organizations that purport to help Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with their pharmaceutical…
Read More »Over the last few years, the government has devoted substantial resources to pursue hospitals that inappropriately admit patients to inpatient stays. This month, the government…
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