Skilled Nursing Facility and Management Company Settle Kickback Case for Nearly $4M
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A California skilled nursing facility and management company has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle allegations it paid ...
Read More Pharmacy Company’s Chief Compliance Officer Convicted in Medicare Fraud Scheme
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A Florida man whose job it was to make sure that no healthcare fraud is committed recently was convicted by ...
Read More HHS-OIG Details Successes of Efforts to Curb Healthcare Fraud and Abuse in Semiannual Report to Congress
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) recently released its Semiannual Report to ...
Read More WPB Man Sentenced for Role in $7M DME Fraud, Kickback and False Claim Scheme
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A West Palm Beach man was sentenced to a little more than five years in prison and ordered to pay ...
Read More Illinois Healthcare System Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleging Overpayment for Services for $12.5M
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A whistleblower lawsuit filed against St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters Health System in Illinois has been settled for ...
Read More Rule Temporarily Extends Flexibilities in Prescribing Controlled Substances Via Telemedicine Created During Public Health Emergency
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Just days before the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) was about to expire on May 12, The Drug Enforcement Administration ...
Read More Two Miami Doctors Sentenced for $31 Million in False Medicare Claims as Part of a DME Fraud Scheme
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A pair of Miami doctors recently were sentenced for their parts in a scheme to steal from Medicare by making ...
Read More Eighteen Charged in COVID-related Healthcare Fraud Resulting in $490M in False Billings and Theft
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The federal government continues its crackdown on COVID-related fraud with the announcement that 18 defendants in nine federal districts are ...
Read More Pharmacists, Pharmacy Owners, and Doctors Sentenced in Texas Compounding Pharmacy Healthcare Fraud Scheme
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Nine Texans have been sentenced to anywhere from 18 months to 20 years for their parts in a $126 million ...
Read More South Florida Man Who Received Kickbacks in $73M Genetic Testing Scheme Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Just before his Medicare fraud trial was to start, a Florida man who helped recruit telemedicine doctors as part of ...
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