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Against Fraud Education Fund | Washington, D.C. |
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 Beth Israel Settles
for $73 MillionBeth Israel has agreed to pay the U.S. Government over $72.99 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in which the hospital was charged with billing Medicare for a wide variety of disallowed expenses ranging from basic administrative overhead to methadone maintenance, from fundraising and marketing to employee housing and parking. The whistleblower was awarded $14.5 million. >> To read more |
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 Medco Settlement in
the Works?Medco Health Solutions Inc. may be beginning settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice over a whistleblower lawsuit joined by the government in 2003. The lawsuit accuses Medco of a wide swath of fraud, including pill shorting, canceling, deleting and destroying patients' mail order prescriptions, creating false records, billing the Federal Government for noncovered drugs, and changing prescriptions based upon misleading or false information provided to treating physicians. >> To read the court order |
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 DoJ Declines
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Fires The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to join an FCA lawsuit against Pfizer concerning off-label marketing of the drug Genotropin. Pfizer says the whistleblower complaint was filed just after the company self-disclosed the illegal marketing practices to the Government. The very day the Government declined, Pfizer fired the whistleblower. >> To read more |
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