Pain Clinic Pays More Than $1.6 Million to Settle False Claims Act and Kickback Allegations
Collier Anesthesia Pain, LLC, a pain management clinic located in Fort Myers, Florida, and Tampa Pain Relief Center, Inc., have agreed to pay $1,665,000 to resolve allegations that they violated…
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Idaho Man Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Federal Prison for Healthcare Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
Scott Alexander Laney, 38, of Boise, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to serve three years of…
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Akumin Corporation to Pay US over $700,000 to Resolve Healthcare Fraud Allegations
Akumin Corporation and Delaware Open MRI Radiology Associates, LLC have agreed to a $749,600.00 settlement with the federal government to resolve allegations of healthcare fraud arising under the federal False…
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Two MA Women Indicted on Charges Stemming from $100 Million Home Healthcare Fraud
Faith Newton, 52, of Westford, and Winnie Waruru, 41, of Lowell, were arrested and charged in connection with a $100 million home healthcare fraud scheme. The government also filed a…
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Florida ‘Paramedic of the Year’ Is Arrested after Covid-19 Vaccine Theft
An emergency worker in Florida was arrested this week in connection with the theft of coronavirus vaccine doses, just 12 days after he had been recognized as a county’s “paramedic…
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Former Virginia Pharmacist Sentenced for Tampering
Bryan Wade Lewis, 35, a former pharmacist at Home Choice Partners in Roanoke, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for tampering with a consumer product,…
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Iowa Doctor Agrees to Pay $100,000 to Resolve Allegations that He Overprescribed Opioids
Dr. Paul Lottes, a family medicine physician in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act by writing prescriptions for…
Read More »Electronic Health Records Technology Vendor to Pay $18.25 Million to Resolve Kickback Allegations
A national electronic health records (EHR) technology vendor based in Watertown, Massachusetts, athenahealth Inc. (Athena), has agreed to pay $18.25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims…
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Former Massachusetts Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Hydromorphone and Meperidine
Mark Croft, 48, a former nurse, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to tampering with opioids intended for emergency department patients at a hospital where he worked and then…
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OK Nursing Home Employee Accused of Using Residents to Steal Drugs
A northwest Oklahoma City nursing home employee is under investigation after being accused of using the home’s residents to steal opioids through fraudulent prescription refill requests.
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