Wisconsin Home Health Business and Owner Agree to Criminal and Civil Resolution of Health Care Fraud Charges

The Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced November 18, 2015 that the United States has filed a crimi...

San Diego Pharmacy Owners Pay $750,000 to Resolve Civil Drug Diversion, Record Keeping and Logbook Allegations After DEA Audit

On November 17, 2015, a group of San Diego pharmacies and their owners paid $750,000 to the federal government to resolve allegations that t...

New York Doctor Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Payments for Test-Referrals With New Jersey Clinical Lab. Payments Were Made to Doctors Under Lease, Consulting, Service or Management Agreements With Doctors Where Referrals Occured Were Called "Bribes" or "Kickbacks" and Agreements Were Called "Sham"

A doctor,  Brett Halper MD,  with a practice in Rockville Centre, New York, was sentenced November 18, 2015 to 46 months in prison for accep...

HIPAA Audit - Learn From Recent $750,000 Settlement Between Medical Practice and HHS and OCR on Deficiencies in HIPAA Compliance After Data Breach

In our practice, we conduct HIPPA and HiTECH compliance audits for health care clients and business associates (companies that service healt...

Injured Worker's Hearing Representative and Interpreter Charged With Insurance Fraud for Cashing Settlement Check Intended for Deceased Client

On an unusual case that arose from a workers’ compensation lawyer’s office, a hearing representative from the law office was charged with mu...

Miami-Area Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for Role in $1.5 Million Medicare Part D Fraud Scheme

A Miami-area pharmacy owner,Tamara Esponda, was sentenced November 17, 2015 to 42 months in prison for her role in the submission of more th...

Recent Federal Indictments in Workers Compensation Cases Show Efforts to Obtain Hard Evidence by Secret Recordings, Text Messages, Emails and Mailings to Strengthen Their Cases

In the three Indictments filed last week by the Southern District in San Diego where the medical treatment and billings were California work...

"Honest Services" Mail Fraud and Kickback Case: How The Feds Are Asserting Jurisction in Charging a Shockwave Therapy Company and its Purported Owners, a Referring Chiropractor, Unindicted Referring Doctors and Unindicted Marketers Over Workers' Compensation Patient Referrals and Alleged Kickbacks Disguised as Agreements for Billing, Rent, Receivables and/or Management Services

For the past five years, after the conviction of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was upheld at the U.S. Supreme Court, federal authorities...

Texas Home-Health Agency Owners, Director of Nursing And Marketers Indicted For Illegal Patient Marketing, Providing Unnecessary Services and $13 Million in Alleged Medicare Fraud

The health care fraud cases against home health and hospice owners continue to get filed in federal court. The most recent case is one in w...

Millennium Health Laboratories Agrees to Pay $256 Million to Resolve Qui Tam Allegations of Unnecessary Urine Drug and Genetic Testing and Illegal Kickbacks to Physicians

Millennium Health, formerly Millennium Laboratories, has agreed to pay $256 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act fo...