False Claims Act Update & Alert
Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | WWW.TAF.ORG November 16, 2004
		Sign Up for this FREE Newsletter n Web Site n About TAF-EF n The False Claims Act n Previous newsletters n Email editor	PolyMedica Settles for $35 M PolyMedica reports it will pay $35 million to settle fraud charges made by the U.S. Department of Justice. The government charged PolyMedica, and its Liberty Medical Supply subsidiary, with shipping diabetes test strips to people who didn't order them and not reimbursing Medicare for returned packages. Liberty Medical is a major TV advertiser of diabetes products. >> To read more
			Adventist Settles for $20.3 M Adventist Health System, Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation, three affiliated hospitals and a management company that administered ambulance operations at the three hospitals, have agreed to pay the U.S. $20.3 million to settle allegations they overcharged Medicare for ambulance service that was not medically necessary. >> To read more
			Custer Battles in the Cross Hairs Custer Battles came to Iraq as a 9-month old company without guns, accountants or guards, but they got a major contract to guard the Baghdad airport. Now that company has a $200 million portfolio, a False Claims Act case has been filed, athe U.S. military has banned Custer Battles from future contracts. >> To read more
			More Dialysis Centers Served Bone Care International, Inc. has announced that it has received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York. The subpoena includes specific requests for documents related to testing for parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and vitamin D therapies. Other major kidney dialysis centers have received similar subpoenas, including Fresenius, the Renal Care Group, DaVita Inc., and Quest Diagnostics.  >> To read more
			Diebold Says It Will Pay $2.6 M Diebold Inc. has said it will pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of California charging the company with making false claims about the security and certification status of its electronic voting machines. As a result of these false claims, six counties were misled into buying the machines. California has already spent more than $139 million on voting machines from Diebold and three competitors. The Alameda County Diebold contract was worth $19 million. It remains to be seen whether the lawsuit's originators, Bev Harris and Jim March., will agree to the settlement. >> To read more