West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, Louisiana has agreed to a substantial settlement to resolve charges filed against it under the False Claims Act. The public hospital is alleged to have collected Medicaid reimbursement for providing Level 1 pediatric-intensive care services, even though the pediatric unit does not qualify for such status. The 307-bed hospital [...]

Armor Holdings Products LLC has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department concerning allegations under the federal False Claims Act that the company knowingly manufactured and sold defective bullet-proof vests. The government alleged that Armor Holdings sold its Zylon bullet-proof vests even though it knew that the vests’ Z Shield Zylon laminate insert degraded [...]

The U.S. Justice Department has decided to join a whistleblower action alleging Medicare fraud against a network of companies, including McKesson Corp. McKesson, a drug wholesaler, is a leading supplier of medical equipment, such as feeding-assistance mechanisms and oxygen supplies. The suit claims that McKesson and other corporations worked together to make false claims for [...]

Data Physics Corp., a San Jose, California company, has reached a sizable settlement with the federal government to resolve False Claims Act charges against it. The federal government alleged that the company billed the government approximately $430,000 for nuclear missile technology ordered by the Air Force, received payment for the equipment, but then failed to [...]

Medtronic, a maker of spinal implants and bone grafts used by orthopedic surgeons, finds itself smack in the middle of a second False Claims Act suit arising out of the company’s alleged practice of rewarding physicians who use Medtronic’s products with glitzy expense-paid vacations that sound more like prizes from a Hollywood game show than [...]

A substantial settlement has been reached between the federal government and Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey concerning charges that the hospital defrauded Medicare by improperly billing for “outlier payments.” The scheme arose in connection with a Medicare program designed to encourage hospitals to treat patients whose care is particularly costly. In such cases, [...]

Carlson Therapy Network, with twenty physical therapy facilities in Connecticut, has reached a substantial settlement with federal prosecutors in a False Claims Act suit arising out of the company’s billing practices. Medicare and Tricare regulations require physical therapists who provide certain types of services to treat patients one at a time, with one-on-one contact. But [...]

Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc., the Ohio maker of over 200 pharmaceuticals, has settled a False Claims Act suit filed against it in federal district court in Boston. The company has agreed with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office to pay a sizable settlement to resolve charges that it – along with several other generic drug manufacturers [...]

Much has been done at the Imperial Oil site since it was listed as a Superfund Site 25 years ago. Almost 60 oil tanks are gone from the site and seven buildings demolished, and the equivalent of 200 football fields of soil has been excavated or treated for contamination. But remaining toxins at the site [...]

Cephalon Inc., a U.S. drug maker based in Frazer, Pennsylvania, will finally have a rest from federal and state investigations into the company’s illegal marketing practices. But to get it, the company had to agree to very stiff criminal and civil penalties and to plead guilty to a violation of the U.S. Food, Drug and [...]