False Claims ActFraudulent marketingNon-complianceOff-label promotionPurpose – The purpose of the study is to review The False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and challenges facing the industry to suggest the motivation behind firms' alleged fraudulent activity. FCA has been applied against ...
“small business concerns” under the CARES Act. According to the government, the company in fact had over 3,000 employees, it knew when it made the certifications that it was ineligible for the loan program, and the government later forgave the loan. The settlement resolved claims brought in...
The case began when Timothy Sanders, a concerned individual, filed a qui tam lawsuit on April 28, 2021, under the False Claims Act. This legal action initiated an investigation into UCHealth’s billing practices. Whistleblowers are integral in exposing fraudulent activities within healthcare systems...
In order to represent the government’s interests, False Claims Act whistleblowers (called “relators”) must work with a lawyer. In fact, if the government declines to join the whistleblower’s case, then the relator and counsel can usually pursue the case on their own, on the government’...
Signature HomeNow, a home healthcare company operating in Florida, has reached a $2.1 million settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and fraudulently billed Medicare.
A recent U.S. District Court decision provides a good example of how federal courts will apply the public disclosure/original source rules in whistleblower cases alleging that health care providers violated the False Claims Act.
Helmer, Martins, Tate & Garrett Co., LPA is the nation's most experienced law firm representing qui tam whistleblowers in a wide range of False Claims Act and other whistleblower cases.
The DOJ claimed that Rite Aid violated the Controlled Substances Act by filling unlawful prescriptions for addictive drugs, as well as the False Claims Act when the chain sought reimbursement from federal healthcare programs for these prescriptions. By Katie Adams Legal, Hospitals Memphis-based ...
Supreme Court held that that “[t]he False Claims Act’s scienter element refers to the pharmacies’ knowledge and subjective beliefs (not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known or believed).1,2 The Supreme Court further opined that the basis for determining the parties’ “...
Thirty-five years ago, Congress ushered in the modern era of False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement when it enacted the False Claims Amendments Act of 1986. At the time, the FCA was a seldom-enforced statute that resulted in government recoveries each year counted in the tens of millions....