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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

North Carolina Pain Management Company to Pay $789,292.95 to Resolve Civil Allegations of False Claims for Urine Drug Testing

On April 16, 2021, the DOJ announced in a PRESS RELEASE that Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (“PPM”) and its owner, Dr. David Spivey, have agreed to pay $789,292.95 to resolve civil allegations that PPM violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (“UDT”). The Relator/Whistleblower will receive $118,911.12 as her share of the federal recovery in this case. According to the Qui Tam Relator’s Complaint filed on January 22,… Read More »North Carolina Pain Management Company to Pay $789,292.95 to Resolve Civil Allegations of False Claims for Urine Drug Testing