Sep 15, 2024 | DOJ, False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
Late last week, the Department of Justice announced that Walgreen had agreed to pay over $106 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing government health care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed. According to the...
Aug 18, 2024 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On August 16, 2024, the plaintiff’s law firm Phillips & Cohen announced that health insurance giant Humana agreed to pay $90 Million to settle a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit filed under the federal False Claims Act (FCA). According to the law firm’s...
Jun 25, 2024 | False Claims Act, Government Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
The False Claims Act, with its threat of treble damages and astronomical per-claim penalties, may not have been designed to punish substandard medical care, but as a recent $15 million FCA settlement demonstrates, the line between substandard medical care and...
