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Healthcare Fraud

French Medical Device Manufacturer to Pay $2 Million in a Civil Settlement to Resolve Kickbacks to Physicians and Related Medicare Open Payments Program Violations

On May 19, 2021, the Department of Justice (Eastern District of Pennsylvania) announced in a PRESS RELEASE that Medicrea International, a French medical device manufacturer, and its American affiliate Medicrea USA Inc., agreed to pay: $1 Million to the United States and participating states to resolve civil whistleblower allegations that the companies, by entertaining U.S.-based physicians during a 2013 conference in France, violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and, through resulting claims to federal healthcare programs, the False Claims Act and similar state statutes; and  an additional… Read More »French Medical Device Manufacturer to Pay $2 Million in a Civil Settlement to Resolve Kickbacks to Physicians and Related Medicare Open Payments Program Violations

South Carolina’s Largest Urgent Care Provider and its Management Company to Pay $22.5 Million to Settle Civil Allegations of Healthcare Fraud in Violation of the False Claims Act

On April 8, 2021, the DOJ announced in a PRESS RELEASE that Doctors Care, P.A. – South Carolina’s largest urgent care provider network – and its management company, UCI Medical Affiliates of South Carolina, Inc. (“UCI”), will pay $25 million to resolve* civil allegations of healthcare fraud in violation of the False Claims Act. Relators initiated the FCA action on August 8, 2017 with the filing of their original complaint. On September 18, 2017, Relators filed their Amended Complaint for False Claims Act Violations, a… Read More »South Carolina’s Largest Urgent Care Provider and its Management Company to Pay $22.5 Million to Settle Civil Allegations of Healthcare Fraud in Violation of the False Claims Act

DOJ Announces a Federal Grand Jury in Miami Charged a Florida Physician in an Alleged Scheme to Falsify Clinical Trial Data

March 8, 2021 – DOJ issued a PRESS RELEASE announcing that an in a now unsealed indictment, a federal grand jury in Miami charged a Florida medical doctor and three others for their roles in an alleged scheme to falsify clinical trial data. See Indictment below: The DOJ reports that according to court documents, the physician, the owner of the research clinic, and the clinic’s senior staff, were each charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and at least one count of mail… Read More »DOJ Announces a Federal Grand Jury in Miami Charged a Florida Physician in an Alleged Scheme to Falsify Clinical Trial Data

Doctor Admits to Kickback and Bribery Schemes Referring to Payments Received as “Vigs.”

On March 5, 2021, the DOJ reported that a Pennsylvania doctor admitted to participating in two conspiracies to receive bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering genetic tests. The doctor pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with two counts of conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)(1)(A). More specifically, the doctor was accepting cash kickbacks and bribes in exchange for collecting DNA samples from Medicare patients and sending them for genetic tests to clinical laboratories. The Information is attached here: