#illegal kick-backs

On July 6, 2017, US District Judge Robert B. Kugler ordered the unsealing of the complaint and settlement agreement in a whistleblower lawsuit against Compassionate Care Hospice Bensalem (PA), a subsidiary of Florida-based Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc., New York City attorney Timothy J. McInnis, of McInnis Law, announced today. Under the terms of the…

Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint Monday naming EMSA and its director, Stephen Williamson, in an alleged kickback scheme regarding a lucrative ambulance services provider contract. The complaint, filed in federal court in the eastern district of Texas, claims that a Texas hospital and ambulance provider, Paramedics Plus LLC, entered into a kickback scheme to…

A drug company has agreed to pay $38 million to settle a federal fraud case launched by a whistleblowing sales representative from Germantown. Kurt Kroening sued Forest Laboratories and its subsidiary, Forest Pharmaceuticals, in 2012 under the federal False Claims Act.  Prosecutors took over the case and alleged that from 2008 through 2011 the firms improperly paid…

The administrator of a Miami-area home health agency was convicted today for his role in a $2.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami…

As if the criminal case involving crooked cancer doctor Farid Fata couldn’t get any uglier, along come fresh allegations that another player in the medical community also made money by taking advantage of cancer patients: a hospice center. According to the U.S. Attorneys Office, Vitas Health Corporation Midwest and other related entities have agreed to…

Federal prosecutors filed charges against former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. executive Gary Tanner and former Philidor Rx Services LLC Chief Executive Andrew Davenport, alleging they engaged in a multimillion-dollar fraud and kickback scheme. The U.S. attorney’s office alleged the two men conspired to promote Philidor to Valeant to win and control its business, according a complaint. Mr. Davenport…

BOSTON, Nov. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Attorneys Suzanne E.  Durrell and Robert M. Thomas, Jr. of the Whistleblower Law Collaborative are pleased to announce that the United States has settled a federal False Claims Act case brought against MedNet Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (“MedNet”) a subsidiary of BioTelemetry, Inc., by a whistleblower client of Ms. Durrell…

A fall 2017 trial date is set for a South Florida businessman accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme. Court records show a Miami federal judge on Wednesday scheduled 48-year-old Philip Esformes’ trial for Sept. 18. Esformes, who has pleaded not guilty, faces a potential life prison sentence if convicted of…