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False Claims Act Update & Alert |
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Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG October 25 2007 |
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 The
FBI
Raids
WellCareThe FBI raided WellCare Health Plan's Florida offices, prompting the stock to plummet 74 percent before trading was halted. WellCare offers Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, and has 2.3 million members nationwide. A director of WellCare had sold off more than $1 million of his own stock in the company six days earlier. >> To read more |
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 Phony Drug Tests
Massachusetts Attorney General
Martha Coakley is going after
Boston Clinical Laboratories
for submitting thousands of phony
Medicaid claims for urine drug
screens billed since January 2000. Coakley's
office recently settled a similar case for $8.15 million with
Willow Street
Medical Laboratory. >>
To read more |
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 Rigsby Sisters "First to File" A federal judge has dismissed a suit filed by Branch Consulting LLC, saying their claim is substantially similar to a False Claims Act case filed by Cori and Kerri Rigsby, two former State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. insurance claims managers in Mississippi. The Rigsby sisters contend that State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide Insurance, USAA Insurance Co., and others worked to defraud the U.S. Government by assigning wind damage claims to the U.S. Government's flood insurance program following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. >> To read more |
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 Grassley to Seek ReelectionSen. Charles Grassley, the father of the modern False Claims Act, will seek re-election in 2008. Grassley is now the 15th highest ranking member of the Senate, and is deeply respected on both sides of the Congressional aisle. >> To read more |
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