American Senior Communities Settles for $5.5 Million in FCA Case

By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale | August 21, 2022
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Thanks to the work of a whistleblower, the U.S. Department of Justice recently settled with an Indiana-based skilled nursing and long-term care services company for $5.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. A former American Senior Communities (ASC) employee filed a whistleblower lawsuit in 2017 alleging that that ASC was…

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Common Healthcare Fraud Schemes

By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale | July 16, 2018
A doctor holding out his hand to someone else

Last month’s indictment of more than 600 people nationwide in what the feds dubbed “the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history,†should serve as a warning that the government is serious about cracking down on those who abuse the system. As we wrote about in June, of the 601 defendants charged, 165 were medical professionals…

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