A $3.6 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against a California heart monitoring that allegedly defrauded Medicare, Tricare and health insurance carriers contracted through the federal government. National Cardio Labs LLC was accused of submitting “false healthcare claims for cardiac and blood pressure diagnostic testing between January 1998 and February 2004,” the [...]
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MEDICARE FRAUD LAWSUIT SETTLED FOR $3.6 MILLION
Posted: July 9, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, medicare fraud, Medicare guideline fraud, qui tam lawyers, WHISTLEBLOWER
WHISTLEBLOWER FILES MEDICARE FRAUD LAWSUIT
Posted: July 8, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, MEDICARE BILLING RULES, medicare fraud, whistleblower lawyer
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A whistleblower lawsuit has been filed against Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and six surgeons that work there, alleging that the doctors routinely violate Medicare billing rules by having residents perform surgeries without their direct supervision. Medicare billing rules require teaching physicians to be present during critical portions of procedures. The qui tam lawsuit [...]
HOSPITAL SETTLES MEDICARE & MEDICAID FRAUD LAWSUIT FOR $7 MILLION
Posted: July 1, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Chicago Medical Center, false claims act, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, qui tam, WHISTLEBLOWER
A $7 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against the University of Chicago Medical Center over claims of purposeful overcrowding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The lawsuit, filed by two former nurses, claimed that the hospital crowded babies into the ICU against state regulations, putting all the children at a high [...]
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SETTLES WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT
Posted: June 27, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, false claims act, government fraud, qui tam lawyer, WHISTLE
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought against them by a former quality assurance manager in 2006. The lawsuit claimed that the company failed to test electronic parts supplied to the government that were installed in military aircraft and spacecraft and were required to withstand extreme temperatures. The federal government will receive a [...]
FALSE CLAIMS ACT SUIT FILED AGAINST WYETH
Posted: May 14, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Alabama lawyer, Alabama Trial Lawyer, ALABAMA WHISTLEBLOWER LAWYER, false claims act, qui tam, qui tam lawsuit, qui tam lawyer, WHISTLEBLOWER, whistleblower lawyers
The Department of Justice and 16 states joined a False Claims Act lawsuit against Wyeth last year, but now 17 other states have piled on. This is a “nominal pricing” fraud similar to Merck’s Pepcid , Viox and Zocor frauds settled in 2008. FULL STORY
NOVARTIS TO PAY $72 MILLION TO SETTLE FALSE CLAIMS ACT FOR OFF LABEL MARKETING
Posted: May 4, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, false claims act, novartis, NOVARTIS WHISTLEBLOWER
Novartis Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay over $72 million to settle a False Claims Act case charging a predecessor company, Chiron, with off-label marketing of the cystic fibrosis drug TOBI. The federal share of the settlement is $43.5 million, with $29 million go to the states. FULL STORY
EXXON SETTLES FALSE CLAIMS ACT SUIT FOR $32 MILLION
Posted: April 6, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, EXXON QUI TAM, false claims act, qui tam, qui tam lawyer, ROYALTIES FRAUD, WHISTLEBLOWER
Mobil Natural Gas and affiliates, have agreed to pay $32 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit charging the company with knowingly cheating on royalties owed for pumping natural gas from federal and American Indian leases between 1988 and 1999. Mobil merged with Exxon to become ExxonMobil in November 1999. FULL STORY
KELLOG BROWN & ROOT (KBR) SUED UNDER FALSE CLAIMS ACT (QUI TAM)
Posted: April 1, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, government fraud, KELLOG BROWN & ROOT FRAUD, LOGCAP CONTRACT FRAUD, qui tam lawyer
The Department of Justice has filed a False Claims Act (FCA) case again Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) alleging they violated the False Claims Act by charging the U.S. Government for private armed security and allowing 33 of their subcontractors to do the same under the LOGCAP III contract, despite the fact that such charges were expressly [...]
US SUPREME COURT NARROWS FALSE CLAIMS ACT PUBLIC DISCLOSURE RULE
Posted: March 30, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, ALABAMA WHISTLEBLOWER LAWYER, PUBLIC DISCLOSURE RULE, US SUPREME COURT OPINION
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 7-2 to further restrict the grounds on which whistle-blower lawsuits can be brought on behalf of the U.S. government. The ruling revolved around a portion of the False Claims Act, which allows ordinary citizens to help the government uncover and fight fraudulent contracts. One portion of the law [...]
PFIZER ORDERED TO PAY $41 MILLION FOR OFF LABEL MARKETING
Posted: March 25, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Neurontin Unapproved Uses, off label marketing, off label promotion, Pfizer, qui tam lawyer
A Boston jury last week ordered Pfizer Inc. to pay $47 million in damages in a lawsuit over its epilepsy drug Neurontin. The lawsuit claimed that the drug giant had marketed Neurontin for unapproved uses, which violates federal racketeering laws. While doctors are free to prescribe medicines as they see fit, drugmakers are only allowed to [...]