"Haven knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary hospice care for certain patients who had lengths of stays greater than three years," Acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow in Jacksonville said in a prepared statement.
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ONI operates independent diagnostic testing facilities (IDTFs) in Delaware and Maryland. The lawsuit alleges that ONI and Pfarr knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Texas-based initial coin offering that claimed to have raised more than $600 million.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced, in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Investigative Division, criminal and civil enforcement actions against three banks and six individuals involved in commodities fraud and spoofing schemes.
Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to side with a magistrate judge and let them add more claims to a whistleblower's allegation that Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for unnecessary hepatitis B tests.
False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblowers have enabled the federal government to recover nearly $30 billion, and in 2017 alone, qui tam cases filed by whistleblowers generated $898 million in recoveries.
Drs. Aytac Apaydin and Stephen Worsham, urologists based in Northern California, will pay $1.085 million to resolve allegations that they submitted and caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) that was referred and billed in violation of the physician self-referral law (commonly known as the "Stark Law") and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit claimed that the San Diego-based health system improperly billed government-sponsored health plans for physical therapy services. Scripps Health will pay $1.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations related to improper billing for physical therapy services, the Department of Justice announced.
The former head of Barclays Capital Inc.'s (Barclays) New York foreign exchange trading operation was charged yesterday in an indictment for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud a client of Barclays through a method commonly referred to as "front-running." The charges relate to the manipulation of foreign exchange options in advance of an exceptionally large trade by the Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Company.
After scores of owners filed safety complaints or shared concerns through social media, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Friday that it was recalling nearly 154,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans to fix an issue that has caused some to stall suddenly while being driven.
A federal judge has overturned a $347.9 million judgment against nursing facility operators affiliated with Consulate Health Care in a lawsuit accusing them of submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment to Medicare and Medicaid.
Ford truck owners filed a lawsuit against the auto company Wednesday claiming it rigged thousands of trucks to beat emissions tests.
A Luxembourg court on Thursday overturned a verdict against a former accounting firm employee who leaked thousands of secret documents to a journalist investigating sweetheart tax deals the government granted to big foreign companies. The Court of Cassation ruled that Antoine Deltour should have been recognized as a whistleblower, a status that could afford him additional legal protection. It ordered judges to reconsider
From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China's ruling elite — if, that is, he's telling the truth. Guo pitches himself as a former insider, a man who knows the secrets of a government that tightly controls the flow of information.
A whistleblower has settled a lawsuit filed against a Centennial aerospace company formed by Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company that claimed the company defrauded the U.S. government out of at least $90 million by grossly overcharging for employee work hours.
The emissions scandal has damaged public trust in carmakers. It is time for them to be transparent and honest about the challenges they now face.
The Whistleblower Office Report to Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 was released on January 4, 2018. Bitcoin changes prices too quickly to be a currency and processes transactions too slowly to be a payments system, but it is juuust right for teaching libertarians everything they don't know about economics.
Whistleblowers assume risks when they choose to report fraud or wrongdoing, but an even greater jeopardy comes with blowing the whistle without knowing the basics
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission warned Thursday that investors should "exercise caution" with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, noting state and federal regulators may not be able to recoup any lost investments from illegal actors.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off a large portion of his stake in the company months after Google had informed the chipmaker of a significant security vulnerability in its flagship PC processors — but before the problem was publicly known.
