by admin | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Anti-Kickback Statute made it illegal for hospitals to pay doctors to send them patients. Instead of following the law, some hospitals have worked out elaborate schemes to try to disguise the kickbacks they seem hell-bent on handing out to physicians. Thanks to...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
A Florida home health agency and its owners paid $1.65 million when a whistleblower filed a False Claims Act lawsuit claiming the HHA was trying an end run around the Anti-Kickback Statute. Everybody knows that nursing homes and hospitals are not supposed to pay...
by admin | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just cannot believe I am writing a sequel to last year’s blog entry about a hospital that paid $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it was inserting stents in people’s hearts – even though they did not need them. At the time I thought surely...
by admin | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Whistleblowers and the Government have been using the False Claims Act to stop hospitals that pay kickbacks to doctors in order to get them to refer patients to the hospital. But even as the Government is cracking down and enforcing the Anti-Kickback Statute, some...
by admin | May 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
If allegations against them prove true, a group of New York doctors, medical staff members and billing specialists may have taken an early lead in the bid for worst Medicaid fraud of the year. These guys promised homeless people free shoes, but the homeless people...
