Escambia County Pays $3.5 Million to Settle FCA Lawsuit
Escambia County, Florida, paid the United States $3,500,000 to resolve allegations that the county violated the False Claims Act by falsely billing government healthcare programs for emergency medical services and…
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Massachusetts Caregiver Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that Dorabela Medeiros, age 43, of Andover, Massachusetts, has been convicted of class B felony Medicaid Fraud — False Claims and class B felony…
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Michigan AG Files Lawsuit Against Regeneron Alleging Fraudulent Drug Price Reporting for Eye Medication
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the attorneys general for Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington have filed suit in federal district court against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (PDF), a New…
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Kentucky Attorney General Releases Elder Abuse Prosecution Manual
Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control released the 2024 Elder Abuse Prosecution Manual. The comprehensive resource includes best practices for…
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SC AG Announces Man Charged with Stealing More Than $200k from Vulnerable Adult
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that his office’s Vulnerable Adults and Medicaid Provider Fraud unit (VAMPF) has arrested Keith C. Suber, 53 years old, of Eastover, SC, for…
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Fake Doctor Selling Unproven COVID-19 Cure Is Sentenced to 36 Months
A United States District Court Judge sentenced a Utah County man, who posed as a doctor, to three years’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he scammed consumers…
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Healthcare Fraud Defendant Gets Extended Sentence for Evading Prison
The former co-owner of a defunct medical testing company, who failed to report to prison as directed last spring, was sentenced to an additional six months in prison. Richard Reid,…
Read More »Woman Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Repay over $1.2M for Pandemic-Related Healthcare Fraud
US Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Melissa J. Watson, of Slidell, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Darrel J. Papillion to twelve months and one day in…
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Eye Practice Settles Allegations of False Claims and Kickbacks for $460,000
Burlington County Eye Physicians (BCEP), an ophthalmology practice with locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Dr. Gregory H. Scimeca, an ophthalmologist and the owner of BCEP, have agreed to…
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Precision Lens Agrees to Pay $12M to the United States for Kickbacks to Doctors in Violation of the FCA
Precision Lens and the estate of its former principal, Paul Ehlen, have agreed to pay the United States $12 million to resolve a case involving kickback payments to ophthalmic surgeons…
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