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Aug. 28—A company that provides oxygen equipment agreed to a $29 million settlement to resolve claims, brought by whistleblowers, that they were overbilling Medicare. It's the largest-ever ...
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 ...
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. Some people receiving the Medicare hospice benefit, which pays all hospice costs provided patients meet a set of criteria that indicate death is imminent, were healthy enough to ...
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 kind of intentional overbilling a former Kirkland & Ellis lawyer recently admitted is rare, experts say. But when it does occur, it can be seen as another consequence of law firms ...
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.