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It's the largest-ever health care fraud settlement in the Eastern District of Washington. Lincare Holdings, based in Florida, also agreed to extensive corrective actions, according to a news ...
A federal judge denied motions to dismiss, strike and stay by TeamHealth in a fraudulent overbilling lawsuit brought by Buncombe County.
Overbilling is a part of many fraud audit infrastructures employed by large companies. [12] Computer programs and software is often used to screen a company's finances to check for overbilling or symptoms of overbilling. [13] Overbilling has been the focus of several infamous scandals, such as the Worldcom scandal [14] and the bankruptcy of W ...
The roster of companies accused of billing fraud includes Miami-based Vitas, the largest hospice provider in the nation. Prosecutors accuse these companies of overbilling for care that isn’t required, refusing to discharge patients who improve and enrolling people who aren’t dying.
In the first off-label promotion case ever litigated in a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act, the settlement was announced after eight years of litigation in May 2004. Warner-Lambert agreed to pay $430 million to resolve all civil and criminal liability, with $24.64 million going to Franklin for his participation in the lawsuit. [ 2 ]
CityTime was a New York City contract to build a timekeeping and payroll system for city employees, awarded to SAIC as a no-bid, $63 million contract in 2003. [1] In the following years, the contract ballooned to $700 million, as consultant rates were artificially inflated, and contract terms were adjusted to make the city responsible for "cost overruns".
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The two causes of action will be considered in succession, first the one for negligence and second that for fraud. (1) We think the evidence supports a finding that the audit was negligently made, though in so saying we put aside for the moment the question whether negligence, even if it existed, was a wrong to the plaintiff.