Centra Health Inc. and Blue Ridge Ear, Nose, Throat, and Plastic Surgery, Inc. Agree to Pay Nearly $10 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Centra Health Inc. and Blue Ridge Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery, Inc. have agreed to pay the government $9,345,845 to settle claims alleging they violated the False Claims Act…
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Missouri Nursing Home Nurse Allegedly Used Patient’s Credit Card, Tried to Take Van, Cadillac
A nurse at a nursing facility in Marshall was charged for allegedly using a patient’s credit card to spend $3,000 and attempting to take the patient’s van and Cadillac.
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Coronavirus Fuels Explosive Growth in Telehealth ― and Concern about Fraud
On March 17, Medicare chief Seema Verma stepped to the podium at a White House coronavirus briefing and unveiled a “historic action” to promote virtual medical care, or telehealth.
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Psychiatrist Affiliated with Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley-Area Health Clinics Who Claimed to Have Seen over 120 Patients per Day Agrees to Pay $91,109 to Resolve False Claims Act Liability
United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Pramod Pilania, M.D., has agreed to pay $91,109 to resolve potential liability under the False Claims Act. Dr. Pilania was a psychiatrist…
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Rhode Island Chiropractor to Plead Guilty to Healthcare Fraud, Tax Evasion
A Providence chiropractor has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he allegedly executed a scheme to defraud healthcare benefits programs and that he allegedly failed to pay taxes to…
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Tech Company Pays $1.7 Million in Restitution for Defrauding Hospital Electronic Records Programs
An Anaheim, Calif. technology company was sentenced in US District Court and was ordered to pay nearly $1.7 million in restitution to federal and Ohio state programs it defrauded. According…
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Maryland Cardiologist and Related Practices to Pay the United States $750,000 for Alleged Kickbacks
Mubashar Choudry, MD, and three medical practices with which he is associated, Washington Cardiovascular Institute, Advanced Vascular Resources, and Washington Vascular Institute, have agreed to pay the United States $750,000…
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Operator of Durable Medical Equipment Company Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Telemedicine Kickback Scheme
A California man who operated a durable medical equipment (DME) company has been charged for his alleged participation in a massive healthcare fraud scheme. The defendant is the 22nd charged in…
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Baltimore Doctor to Pay $436,000 to the United States to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Medically Unnecessary Procedures
Ebenezer Quainoo, M.D., an internist in Baltimore, Maryland, who operates a medical practice known as Baltimore Health Care, P.C., has agreed to pay the United States $436,000 to settle allegations…
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Reference Laboratory, Pain Clinic, and Two Individuals Agree to Pay $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing
Logan Laboratories Inc., a reference laboratory in Tampa, Florida; Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc., a pain clinic also based in Tampa Florida, and; two of their former executives, Michael T….
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