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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

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