One Icelandic generic drug maker, Actavis, had the temerity to take an Average Wholesale Price fraud case to jury trial. The result: a $170 million judgment and likely exclusion from Texas Medicaid for Actavis, the privately-held generic drug maker that acquired Purepac and Alpharma pharmaceuticals. To date, the Texas Attorney General’s office has settled or won judgments for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘medicaid fraud’
$170 MILLION MEDICAID FRAUD VERDICT
Posted: February 18, 2011 by administrator in FCRATags: alabama, attorney, birmingham, false claims act, huntsville, law, lawyer, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, mobile, montgomery, qui tam
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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 [...]
WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST WYETH
Posted: June 11, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: false claims act, medicaid fraud, Protonix, qui tam, WHISTLEBLOWER
The state of Utah has announced that it will join two lawsuits with 16 other states against drug manufacturing company Wyeth over the alleged concealment of discounted prices. The whistleblower suits claim that Wyeth hid lower prices of its stomach acid suppressing drugs Protonix Oral and Protonix IV from 2001 to 2006 to avoid paying millions of [...]
MARYLAND SIGNS FALSE CLAIMS ACT INTO LAW
Posted: April 13, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: FALSE CLAIMS ACT LAW, FRAUDULENT GOVERNMENT CLAIMS, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, STATE QUI TAM LAW, WHISTLEBLOWER LAW
On April 13, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed more than 100 new bills into law, but on top of the stack was the Maryland False Claims Act, which lawmakers expect to save the state millions of dollars in fraudulent claims. FULL STORY
$3.5 Million False Claims Act (Qui Tam) with Eon Labs
Posted: March 13, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Eon Lab, false claims act, FDA, government fraud, ineffective drugs, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, novartis, qui tam, Sandoz, WHISTLEBLOWER
According to the Department of Justice, Eon Labs, Inc., has settled a False Claims Act (qui tam) lawsuit with the Justice Department. it, Eon Labs (subsidiary of Sandoz, which is a subsidiary of Novartis AG)is the manufacturer of Nitrogylcerin Sustained Release. The DOJ posted the following press release on its website: Eon Labs Pays U.S. $3.5 Million [...]
Johnson & Johnson Kick Back Power Point
Posted: March 10, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: flase claims act, johnson & johnson, kickback, medicaid fraud, qui tam, relator, WHISTLEBLOWER
The Department of Justice has alleged that Johnson and Johnson is using a Power Point presentation to demonstrate the profitability of its alleged Medicaid false claims act scheme. The Power Point was prepared by National Accounts, a group within Johnson and Johnson’s ortho-McNeil division. Click HERE for a page out of Johnson and Johnson’s controversial Power [...]
$24 Million Settlement for Medicaid Fraud
Posted: February 2, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: false claims act, FORBA Holdings, fraud on government, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, qui tam, Small Smiles Center, whistle blower, WHISTLEBLOWER
FORBA Holdings, a dental management company, has agreed to settle a qui tam (False Claims Act) lawsuit with the federal government for $24 million. According the Department of Justice lawsuit, FORBA submitted claims for reimbursement for unnecessary medical procedures to Medicaid. The whistle-blowers filed three separate qui tam (False Claims Act) lawsuits in Virginia, Maryland and South [...]