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False Claims Act Update & Alert |
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Taxpayers
Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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 Home Health
Care Fraud in FL
In October,
Medicare suspended millions of dollars in
payments to the top 10 home healthcare
agencies in Miami after
discovering that since 2001
Medicare's payments for home healthcare in
Dade County had grown by a whopping 1,750
percent -- to $1.3 billion -- while the pool
of people over age 65 diagnosed with diabetes
had grown by just 30 percent. To put
it another way,
Medicare's
payments
for home healthcare
in Miami-Dade grew at a pace 13
times the national
rate.
Medicare officials say
that right
now about one in every 15
Medicare dollars spent on home healthcare in
the U.S. is spent in Miami-Dade County
alone. >>
To read more
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 $52
Million
for Bad BladesPratt & Whitney and PCC Airfoils have agreed to pay $52 million to settle allegations they knowingly sold defective turbines for fighter jets. >> To read more |
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 Pearson
Pays $5.6 millionNCS Pearson Inc. has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle a False Claims Act case in which the company is alleged to have overcharged the Transportation Security Administration for services related to recruiting security personnel at airports. >> To read more |
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 Medtronic Under
PressureDoJ is investigating whistleblower allegations that a Medtronic implant for promoting bone growth is being marketed for off-label uses. The investigation, in combination with a government safety warning, has resulted in a massive loss of expected sales for Medtronic -- what company Chief Executive William A. Hawkins has termed a "perfect storm." >> To read more |
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 WI FCA Qualifies Under DRA
The Office of the Inspector General of HHS
has qualified Wisconsin under
the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which
means the state should get back more money in successful FCA cases in
the future. >>
To read HHS's letter re: WI FCA DRA
Qualification
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