More than 400 people have been charged with taking part in health care fraud schemes and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in false billing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. Calling the collective action the “largest health care fraud…
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Government, Healthcare Fraud, Jeff Sessions, Medicare, U.S. Department of Justice
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced in early July that it had settled a False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuit with five Gardena, California info tech companies (En Pointe Gov. Inc., En Pointe Technologies Inc., En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc., Dominguez…
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False Claims Act, Qui Tam, U.S. Department of Justice, Uncategorized, Whistleblower, Whistleblower award
In early May 2016, the Railroad Retirement Board (“RRB”) published an interim rule, which imposed significant increases to the per claim penalties the RRB imposes under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act (“PFCRA”). The…
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