Two Florida Owners of Sober Homes and Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers Plead Guilty for Filing Fraudulent Insurance Claims and Paying Kickbacks for Referrals

Audits of alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers have been on the rise. We have also seen an increase in criminal filings relating to ...

Six Florida Defendants Including Two Doctors Charged in Private Insurance Health Care Fraud Involving Sober Homes, Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Centers and Drug Testing

Private insurance companies are aggressively pursing investigations into drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, sober living homes, labora...

Connecticut Office Manager Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Charges for Billing for Psychotherapy Services Using Social Worker's Provider Number Who Did Not Provide Services

Mental health audits and prosecutions are on the rise in  “behavioral health” which includes a wide variety of health care providers who pro...

CleanSlate Addiction Treatment Centers Settle Qui Tam Allegations of Prescribing of Suboxone by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Without Proper Physician Supervision and Improper Billing

The addiction industry is facing a great deal of scrutiny at every level.  The laws and regulations are changing and compliance is lagging b...

California Owner and CFO of Chain of Outpatient Drug Rehab and Sober Living Facilities Charged With Insurance Fraud and Identity Theft In State Case in LA County Superior Court

There have been investigations into the drug rehabilitation business the past two years with insurance investigators leading the way. The in...

Premiertox Pays U.S. and Tennessee $2.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit for Urine Drug Screening Services. Allegations of Unlawful Kickbacks, Lack of Medical Necessity

Quantitative urine drug screening ordered by physicians or other health care providers (such as drug treatment centers) and toxicology labor...

Drug Rehab Industry Reacts to Second Degree Murder Charges And Dependent Adult Abuse Charges Filed Against Murietta Drug Rehab Center and Four of Its Employees

A jolt has been sent through California's large drug and alcohol rehabilitation industry —an industry with more than 1,500 facilities ac...

Drug Medi-Cal Fraud Case Set for Trial in May 2016 For Alleged Submission of False Claims for Alcohol and Drug Treatment and Counseling for Students

Trial is set for May 10, 2016 in federal court in Los Angeles regarding the operation of a Caliornia Drug Medi-Cal provider  Atlantic Health...

Former Doctor and Non-Doctor Owners of Kentucky Clinical Laboratory Indicted for Health Care Fraud Due to Urine Drug Testing

Drug toxicology was considered a lucrative field in health care. Urine drug testing is important for physicians to monitor patient use of dr...