![]() ![]() ![]() Michigan vascular surgeon sentenced to prison, settles False Claims Act whistleblower case.Detroit hospital, Tenet Healthcare settle kickback allegations for nearly $30 million.Supreme Court rejects “objectively reasonable” defense in False Claims Act cases. ![]() A defendant who violates the act is liable for three times the amount of the government’s losses plus applicable penalties. True Health Diagnostics, LLC, et al., No. In addition, the United States has filed a lawsuit under the False Claims Act against former True Health CEO Christopher Grottenthaler and others, which is captioned United States ex rel. To date, the United States has recovered over $32 million relating to conduct involving True Health or MSO kickbacks to physicians in Texas, including False Claims Act settlements with 34 physicians, two health care executives, one office manager, and one laboratory. Attorneys’ Offices for the Eastern District of Texas, District of New Jersey, and District of South Carolina, with assistance from HHS-OIG and DCIS. The settlement was the result of a coordinated effort between the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch, Fraud Section and the U.S. Unreasonable amount of space and excessive days and time. Labtech’s rental payments allegedly were for a commercially Rental payments in return for ordering laboratory tests from Labtechĭiagnostics LLC (Labtech), a clinical laboratory in Anderson, SouthĬarolina. Patel allegedly received hundreds of dollars per month in inflated space Patel allegedly received kickbacks from RDx in theįorm of commercially unreasonable fees to purportedly collect urine Physicians in return for their referrals. To an independent contractor recruiter, Corum Group LLC, which used anĪssociated company, Avior, to pay kickbacks to Dr. Patel in the form of volume-based commissions paid (RDx), aĬlinical laboratory in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Return for ordering laboratory tests from RDx Bioscience, Inc. Investment returns from a purported MSO named Avior Group LLC (Avior) in PatelĪllegedly received thousands of dollars in kickbacks disguised as In fact were based on, and offered in exchange for, his referrals to Patel allegedly were disguised as investment returns but (True Health), a clinical laboratory in Frisco, Texas. Return for ordering laboratory tests from True Health Diagnostics LLC Management service organization (MSO) named Indus MG LLC (Indus) in PatelĪllegedly received thousands of dollars in payments from a purported ![]() Patel received kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute in return for Dr. The settlement announced today resolves allegations that Dr. The Anti-Kickback Statute is intended to ensure that medical providers’ judgments are not compromised by improper financial incentives and are instead based on the best interests of their patients. The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare, Medicaid and other federally funded healthcare programs. and his office manager and wife Laju Patel, both of Port Neches, Texas, have agreed to pay $422,789 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they received illegal kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute in return for referring patients for laboratory testing, and both have agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigations of, and litigation against, other participants in the alleged schemes. On December 14, the Department of Justice announced that a physician (husband) and office manager (his wife), both based in Texas, have agreed to pay nearly $423,000 and cooperate against other defendants in settling allegations for their roles in a laboratory fraud case. ![]()
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