Five Plea Agreements Lead to Repayment to TennCare
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Five people, including residents of Arkansas and Alabama, have been ordered to make restitution to TennCare after they were each charged separately with...
View ArticleA.G. Schneiderman Announces Civil Suit And Criminal Charges Against Pharmacy...
Hin T. Wong Allegedly Paid Patients Kickbacks And Billed Medicaid For HIV Medications Never Dispensed Defendant Allegedly Used Money Stolen From Medicaid To Fund Personal Expenses, Including Travel And...
View ArticleOwner of Hudson County Medical Equipment Supply Store Pleads Guilty To...
TRENTON –Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced today that the owner of a Hudson County medical equipment supply store has pleaded...
View ArticleSt. Agnes Healthcare Agrees To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Of...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 Baltimore, Maryland – St. Agnes Healthcare has agreed to pay the United States $122,928 to resolve claims under the False Claims Act...
View ArticleActing Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces $13.4 Million Settlement Of Civil...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and...
View ArticleHouston Home Health Agency Owner Sentenced to 480 Months in Prison for...
Friday, August 18, 2017 WASHINGTON – The owner and operator of five Houston-area home health agencies was sentenced on Thursday to 480 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare and the State...
View ArticleAG Healey Returns $500,000 to Masshealth in Settlement With Springfield...
August 21, 2017 BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey announced today that her office has reached a settlement with a pediatric dentist in Springfield, returning $500,000 to the state’s Medicaid...
View ArticleCEO Indicted For Wire Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft
Thursday, August 10, 2017 Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal grand jury has indicted Zheng Geng, a/k/a “Jason Geng”, age 59, of Vienna, Virginia, on charges related to a scheme to defraud the United...
View ArticleCompounding Pharmacy Sales Representative Pleads Guilty to Prescription Fraud...
Thursday, August 17, 2017 TUSCALOOSA – A sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.-based compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty today in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to generate...
View ArticleMylan Agrees to Pay $465 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Liability
Thursday, August 17, 2017 Mylan Underpaid Medicaid Rebates on EpiPen BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that pharmaceutical companies Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty L.P. have agreed to...
View ArticleCleveland Doctor Sentenced in Hospice Fraud Case
Monday, August 14, 2017 OXFORD, Miss. – Robert H. Norman, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleUnited States Recovers More Than $12 Million In False Claims Act Settlements...
Monday, August 21, 2017 United States will also pursue claims against Precision Lens, Paul Ehlen and Dr. Jitendra Swarup Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced that Sightpath...
View ArticleDoctor & Owner of Multiple Home Health Companies Sentenced in a nearly $60...
Friday, August 18, 2017 DALLAS – Myrna S. Parcon, a/k/a “Merna Parcon,” 62, of Dallas and Ransome N. Etindi, 57, of Waxahachie, Texas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle for...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Family Practice Chain, Its Co-Owner, and Its Laboratory...
Monday, September 11, 2017 Family Medicine Centers of South Carolina LLC (FMC), has agreed to pay the United States $1.56 million, and FMC’s principal owner and former chief executive officer, Dr....
View ArticleConnecticut Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Pays $627K to Settle False...
Thursday, September 7, 2017 United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that a Connecticut substance abuse treatment provider and its former...
View ArticleCalifornia Resident Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Healthcare Fraud
Thursday, September 7, 2017 Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SUNYUP KIM, age 41, of Granada Hills, CA, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit...
View ArticleNovo Nordisk Agrees to Pay $58 Million for Failure to Comply with...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 Payments Resolve Allegations Highlighted in DOJ Civil Complaint and Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Actions Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Novo Nordisk Inc. will pay $58.65...
View ArticleNational Dental Clinic Chain to Pay $1.3 Million to Resolve Allegations of...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced today that Dental Dreams, LLC, a national dental chain with locations in...
View ArticleFormer Janesville Pharmacy Owner Sentenced for Health Care Fraud
Friday, September 1, 2017 Madison, Wis. – Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark Johnson, 55, Janesville, Wis., was sentenced...
View ArticleCHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and CHRISTUS Health to Pay...
Friday, September 1, 2017 CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (St. Vincent) and its partner, CHRISTUS Health (CHRISTUS), have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims...
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