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False Claims Act Update & Alert |
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Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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the Winners Are ...4TAF Lifetime Achievement Award for 2008: James Helmer 4TAF Lawyers of the Year for 2008: Steve Cohen, Mark Kleiman, and BethAnne Yeager 4TAF Whistleblowers of the Year: Sherry Scharff and Walter T. Decyk 4TAF Honest Abe Award to: Congressman Dan Lungren (R-CA) >> To read more |
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 NJ Hospital to Pay $3.8 Million
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay
the United States $3.85 million, plus interest, to settle
allegations it defrauded Medicare by manipulating outlier
payments. >>
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 After
14 YearsPogue Goes to Trial United States ex rel. Pogue v. Diabetes Treatment Centers of America will soon go to trial after 14 years of litigation. The Pogue case was one of the first in the U.S. to establish that Anti-Kickback Act violations could serve as the basis of a False Claims Act case -- a precedent that has already lead to more than a billion dollars being returned to the U.S. Treasury. >> To read more |
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 Abbott
Settles with PennsylvaniaAbbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $6.95 million to the state of Pennsylvania in order to settle charges the company artificially inflated Medicaid drug prices by lying about Average Wholesale Prices for prescription drugs. Pennsylvania will receive approximately $4.49 million with an additional payment of $2.4 million in various attorneys' fees. >> To read more |
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 Roxanne Settles With MassachusettsRoxanne, a division of Boehringer Ingelheim, has agreed to pay the state of Massachusetts $1.8 million to settle False Claims Act charges the company price-gouged the state Medicaid program by manipulating the reported Average Wholesale Price of prescription drugs. To read more |
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 Connecticut Physical Therapy
Network to Pay $1.8 MillionCarlson Therapy Network, a physical therapy network in Connecticut, has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle charges the company billed group therapy as individual therapy. >> To read more |
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