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...

Neurosurgeon Sentenced for Health Care Fraud Involving Spinal Implant Devices. Admitted Hiding Financial Interest in Implant Company From California Hospitals

Spinal implant billing by hospitals has been an area of intense investigation and scrutiny for the past five years. Physicians who performed...

Owner Of Pennsylvania Medical Staffing Company Sentenced For Billing Medicaid for Services Not Provided, Provided by Others or Not Qualified to Provide Services

Medical staffing companies need to be careful when billing for services and for providers. One issue that arises is when a licensed provider...

California Man Who Refinanced Hotel Property Convicted Of Wire Fraud and Misstatements to a Bank in Federal Jury Trial

In the legal community, many of us expected white collar prosecutions for bank financing and mortgage fraud, including cases against lenders...

Former Napa Winemaker Charged in California Federal Court With Mail and Wire Fraud in Mislabeling Wine

Mislabeling of food items has not been a high priority in past years. However, the issues that have happened in China with olive oil and in ...

San Diego MedTech Consultant Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors by Selling Fake Stock in Medical Research Company

Health care investment fraud is on the rise.  On February 16, 2016, Oceanside businessman Greg Ruehle admitted to securities fraud ( 15 U.S...

Pennsylvania Physician And One Other Plead Guilty To Health Care Fraud Charges Arising From Writing A Fraudulent Prescription in Another Person's Name

Writing a prescription in another person's name is a fraudulent prescription. When that visit or prescription in the other person's ...

Sacramento Dentist Pleads Guilty to Billing for Unnecessary or Unperformed Dental Work Billed to Delta Dental From 2008 to 2010

We have seen an increasing number of audits by Delta Dental where billing for services not provided is suspected . In some cases, the issue ...

Former UCSD Professor's Tech Company That Applied for Government Grants and Contracts Admits and Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Agrees to Forfeit $180,000. False Statements in Government Applications Carry Exposure. Owner Gets "Deferred Prosecution Agreement."

False statements in any documents submitted to the government for payment can result in fraud charges. During the 1990s, government qui tam ...

"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...

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...