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

Posted on by Simon Mikail
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 ...

Court Hits Nursing Home Chain Consulate Health Care with $347 Million False Claims Act Fraud Judgment

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
A recently announced judgment by a district court held a nursing home chain named Consulate Health Care liable for $347 million dollars in total judgment for 446 cited false claims of unlawfully upcoding Medicare claims for patient therapy services. The judgment was entered by Judge Merryday following a jury verdict ...

Justice Department Reaches $60 Million Dollar Settlement with TeamHealth/IPC

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
Our Los Angeles attorneys report that TeamHealth, the parent of a local physician management and staffing company by the name of IPC Healthcare (located in North Hollywood, CA), agreed to settle with the Department of Justice after allegations arose that it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”).  The Complaint all...

UnitedHealth Wellmed Overlooks Provider Overcoding and Overpayments Leading to False Claims Act Allegations

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Uncategorized
Our Los Angeles and Orange County based False Claims Act (“FCA”) attorneys report that the Department of Justice recently joined a whistleblower lawsuit against the UnitedHealth Group and Wellmed.  The main allegations claim that UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest healthy insurer and Wellmed Medical Manag...

$5.3 Million Dollar Settlement after False Claims Act Whistleblower in Oncology Practice Reports Medicare Fraud

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Health Care Employee Rights, Whistleblower Protection
Anyone could, and should, report fraudulent activity by his or her employer. In this case, it was a medical coder at an oncology practice. As result, the oncology medical group will settle with the government for $5.3 million dollars to bring to close allegations that it systematically falsely billed Medicare and Medic...

Pfizer Settles False Claims Act Case for $785M – Lessons (Not) Learned From Previous Cases

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Retaliation, Whistleblower Protection
It is another week, and yet another multi-million dollar False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlement.  However, this one nears the billion dollar mark and exemplifies a common theme of the government joining the whistleblower lawsuit when the stakes are high.  In this case, Pfizer agreed to pay $785 million to settle cla...