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Medstar Health $35 Million Whistleblower Kickback Settlement

The Department of Justice announced that it reached a whistleblower kickback settlement under the False Claims Act with Medstar Health. Hospital Kickback Allegations Medstar Health Inc. and its fellow defendants are hospitals and medical centers. The allegations revolve around kickbacks. While kickbacks in many industries are legal, they are not in the healthcare industry. The Anti-Kickback Statute makes it…

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Whistleblower Award For Qui Tam Case: Ambulance Fraud

Case Name: United States et al. ex rel. Ernest Sharp v. Americare Ambulance Case Number: 8:13-cv-1171T33-AEP Settlement Amount: $5.5 Million Court: Middle District of Florida Ambulance Fraud Case Description AmeriCare Ambulance Service, Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS, Inc. (collectively, AmeriCare), agreed to pay $5.5 Million to resolve  a False Claims Act lawsuit. The qui tam lawsuit alleges…

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Government Fraud Statistics

The Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice published the annual “fraud statistics.” This publication contains information regarding reporting government fraud from October 1986 through September 30, 2018. The statistics contain qui tam and non-qui tam settlement and judgment information. Below is a look at some of the findings. Other findings will be reported in our blogs at…

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False Claims Act Statute of Limitations

The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on February 8, 2019 endorsing a longer statute of limitations for qui tam cases. The False Claims Act Case The qui tam case filed by a whistleblower manager named Billy Joe Hunt accusing Parsons Corp. and Cochise Consultancy Inc. of defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense in…

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False Claims Act Case for Inflated Information Technology Subcontract Costs

It was announced, on February 8, 2019, that the United States has filed a False Claims Act suit against Mission Support Alliance LLC (MSA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC), Lockheed Martin Services Inc. (LMSI), and Jorge Francisco Armijo for alleged false claims and kickbacks in connection with a multi-billion dollar contract with the Department of Energy (DOE) to support the…

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Walgreens Settles False Claims Act case for $269 Million

$269 Million False Claims Act Settlement Against Walgreens Walgreens Pays $269 Million to Settle Multiple False Claims Act cases. The cases allege that the retail pharmacy (1) over billed the government for insulin pens by understating the amount of treatment days covered by supplies of pens that allowed it to bill for prescriptions that would have been denied as…

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