FCA

Several Recent False Claims Act (FCA) Settlements

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Category: Federal False Claims, Recent Cases
California University agrees to Pay $225,000 for allegedly violating ban on Incentive compensation Lakeway Regional Medical Center LLC and Co-Defendants agree to pay mor than $15.3 million to settle allegations they fraudulently obtained government-insured loans and misused loan funds FCA – Illegal college ...

A Pharmacy, an Equity Firm, and Two Executives of the Pharmacy – Agree to Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $21.36 Million

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Category: Federal False Claims
The US Department of Justice reported on September 18, 2019 that a compounding pharmacy, Diabetic Care Rx LLC (Patient Care America), a private equity firm (Riordan, Lewis & Haden, Inc.) and the CEO and former VP of Patient Care America agreed to settle the charges which were centered on an alleged kickback scheme ...

Flawed Security Gap Costs Cisco 8.6 millions to settle Federal False Claims Act Case

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Category: Federal False Claims
When selling security systems to governmental agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Secret Service, the Army,. Marine, Navy and Air Force, it's always a good idea to make sure there are no security flaws that would allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to the video system. O...

Walgreens Agrees to Pay $269 Million for Allegations It Overbilled for Different Drugs

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Category: Federal False Claims, Qui Tam, Whistleblower Protection
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, according to a report by the federal Justice Department agreed, in January 2019, to the huge payout in response to charges it violated the Federal False Claims Act. The settlement, according to Law360, was one of the largest False Claims Act (FCA) settlements by a retail pharmacy in FCA hi...

Mortgage Fraud Results in Several Cases Totaling Over $100 Million Dollars Against PHH, Prospect Mortgage and Quicken Loans

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Category: Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
Our Los Angeles based False Claims Act (“FCA”) attorneys report several multi-million dollar settlements from mortgage companies over allegations that they abused the government programs (such as FHA). Amongst the companies entering into settlements with the government are Quicken Loans, Prospect Mortgage and PHH C...

Large Academic Medical Center Paying $6.5 Million and Medical Supply Company Paying $2.7 Million to Settle Medicare Fraud Allegations

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Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
In another multi-million dollar settlement, a health care system is paying millions to the government to settle allegations that it defrauded the Medicare program.  In the Vandebilt Hospital settlement, three formerly employed physicians claimed that the surgery center implemented fraudulent scheduling practices that ...

Allergan Settles for $13 Million after Whistleblowers Sue On Behalf of Government for Fraudulent Kickbacks to Eye Care Providers

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Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
A former Orange County, California headquartered company (now they are in Dublin, Ireland to avoid U.S. taxes) by the name of Allergan settled a False Claims Act (“FCA”) whistleblower lawsuit this week for $13 million dollars.  The main Whistleblower allegation was that Allergan engaged in kickback scheme with eye...

Software Vendor for Healthcare Providers Settles with Government for $155 Million FCA and Anti-Kickback Violations

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Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
In this issue, our False Claims Act (“FCA”) whistleblower attorneys report one of the largest FCA settlements in history.  This special type of settlement involved an Electronic Health Record (“EHR”) company by the name of eClinicalWorks.  This E.H.R. company provided software to health care providers.  The ...

Lab Company Quest Diagnostics Settles False Claims Act Lawsuits for $6 Million Dollars

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Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
In what has been a pattern in recent years, another diagnostics lab company settled for millions of dollars in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) allegation.  The main allegations here involved labs paying doctors kickbacks so that the doctors refer to the labs for certain services that were not necessary.  This was not ...

Medi-Cal Fraudulent Billing Leads to Whistleblowers and Walgreens $9.9 Million False Claims Act Settlement

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Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
Our Los Angeles based Whistleblower Attorneys report another multi-million dollar Medi-Cal False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlement.  The claims were brought to light by a pharmacist and technician at a Walgreens pharmacy.  The two alleged that the drugstore pharmacy chain which operates over 600 stores throughout Cal...