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2020 False Claims Act Recoveries: $2.2 Billion in Recoveries and Over $309 Million in Awards to Whistleblowers

On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice provided its annual review of cases and recoveries under the False Claims Act.  Through the end of fiscal year 2020 (ending September 30, 2020), total recoveries (across all...more

ArentFox Schiff

Nonprofit Hospital System and Physician Practice Reach $10 Million Settlement for False Claims Act Allegations

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Nonprofit Hospital System and Physician Practice Reach $10 Million Settlement for False Claims Act Allegations - Centra Health Inc., a nonprofit hospital system, and Blue Ridge Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery, Inc.,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Doctor Gets $4.6M for Blowing Whistle on Over-Compensated Doctors

Neurologist Dr. David Hammett will receive $4,590,000 as part of a settlement entered into by Lexington Medical Center (LMC) of West Columbia, S.C., and the federal government. Ironically, the hefty compensation comes as a...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - August 2015

Are the Circuits A-Splitting? The Ninth Circuit Declines to Follow the Second Circuit's Insider Trading Decision in U.S. v. Newman - Why it matters: On July 6, 2015, the Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Salman declined to...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Halifax Pays $85 Million to Resolve Improper Physician Compensation Arrangement Claims Brought by Employee-Whistleblower

Since January 2009, the DOJ has recovered more than $13.4 billion through False Claims Act cases involving fraud against federal health care programs, and last month, Halifax Hospital Medical Center and Halifax Staffing, Inc....more

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