#kick-backs

The owner and operator of five Houston-area home health agencies was sentenced on Thursday to 480 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare and the State of Texas’ Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) and Primary Home Care (PHC) Programs of more than $17 million and launder the money that he stole from Medicare…

A majority of patients in the United States visited a doctor who received payments from drug companies, but most have no clue about it, according to a new Drexel University study. About 65 percent of those surveyed as a part of the study by Genevieve Pham-Kanter, PhD, an assistant professor in Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health,…

Twenty-Five Miami-Area Defendants Charged with Submitting $26 Million in False Claims to the Medicare Part D Program Charges were filed today against 25 Miami-area defendants in three separate cases for their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare of approximately $26 million in false claims through the Medicare Part D program. Assistant Attorney General…

Abbott Laboratories could face a $1 billion fine in a federal whistle-blower lawsuit over off-label use of stents, and allegations of Medicare fraud and kickbacks paid to hospitals and physicians for such use. The jury trial began this week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, 10 years after former…

U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Kyle D. Gandy, age 37, a physician assistant who formerly resided in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and two years of supervised release for accepting $1,000.00 in illegal kickbacks for referring patients to medical clinics, physical therapy clinics, and a home health care…

A San Diego-based medical diagnostic laboratory paid more than $4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by paying improper kickbacks to physicians and physician groups in exchange for patient referrals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Pathway Genomics Corp. provides analysis of genetic testing kits for a variety of purposes within…

Settlements sought for prescriptions written in cases where doctors never met patients Federal prosecutors in at least four states are mounting investigations into what they describe as widespread fraud by compounding pharmacies in claims to the health-insurance program that covers 9.5 million U.S. military members and their families. In the latest move, four Florida pharmacies…