TULSA, OK — Robert Charles Duke and his Catoosa business, Vision and Eye Care Medical Diagnostic and Laser Center, Inc., have agreed to pay a total of $150,000 to settle allegations of submitting false Medicare and Medicaid claims to the United States and the State of Oklahoma.

The announcement was made by United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Ok

CHICAGO, IL — A long-time Chicago psychiatrist pleaded guilty to a federal crime for receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits totaling nearly $600,000 from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for regularly prescribing the anti-psychotic drug clozapine to his patients. The defendant, Dr. MICHAEL J. REINSTEIN, also agreed to pay the United States and the State of Illinois $3.79 million to s

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation (CHSPSC) and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals (collectively CHS) have agreed to pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by making illegal donations to county governments which were used to fund the state share of Medicaid payments to the hospitals, the Ju

Appellant Irma Barragan appeals the trial court’s enforcement of a purported
Rule 11 agreement to settle the lawsuit and dismissal with prejudice of her
personal injury lawsuit against appellee Nederland Independent School District
(“NISD”). Barragan raises seven issues for our consideration. We reverse the trial
court’s orders and remand the cause for fur

NAEEM MAHMOOD KOHLI, 60, of Effingham, Illinois, was convicted of seven counts of illegal dispensation of a Schedule II Controlled Substance following a 17-day jury trial held in federal district court, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.

Kohli faces up to 20 years for each of the seven counts of illegal dispensation of

FORT WORTH, TX — The owner/operator of a chiropractic clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced this morning on a federal felony conviction stemming from her submission of false reimbursement claims to Medicare and Medicaid, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

Melva Mitchell, 35, of Fort Worth, a licensed chiropractor, was sentenced by U.S

The former chief operating officer of a Miami-area hospital pleaded guilty today for his role in a mental health care fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $67 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare by a state-licensed psychiatric hospital located in Hollywood, Florida, that purported to offer both inpatient and outpatient mental health services.

U.S. Attorney Wifred

Eight residents of Miami-Dade County and three residents of Nicaragua have been charged for their alleged participation in a $25.2 million Medicare, Medicaid, and wire fraud scheme.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General, Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, O

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – United States District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Dr. Shannon Wiggins, 45, of Okemos, Michigan to two years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. The convictions arise from an Indictment which charged that between January 2004 and April

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Mohamad Abduljaber, 50, of Okemos, Michigan to three and a half years of imprisonment on charges of receipt of health care kickback payments and falsifying an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today.

The convictions arise from an Indictment which charged that between January

Maine Medical Center ("Maine
Medical") challenges a district court ruling upholding the decision
of the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services
("HHS") denying Maine Medical's claim for partial federal
reimbursement of "bad debt" for two fiscal years. Maine Med. Ctr.
v. Sebelius, No. 2:13-CV-00118-JAW, 2014 WL 1234173, at *1 (D. Me.
Mar. 25, 2014). A "bad

BEAUMONT, TX – A 75-year-old Beaumont doctor has been sentenced to federal prison for health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

John Q. A. Webb, Jr., now living in Houston, pleaded guilty on July 23, 2014 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison today by U.S. District

In this appeal, we are asked to consider whether the medical director and manager of a Medicare and Medicaid provider who supervised the payment of kickbacks occupied a position of trust for purposes of U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3B1.3 (2013), which provides for a two-level upward adjustment in offense level for abuse of a position of trust. We hold that on the facts of this case, the

Jeanna Cheney appeals the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the district court's award of residential custody of her daughter, Justine Poore, to Justine's father, Zachary Poore. Like the Court of Appeals, we conclude that the district court erred in applying K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 23-3207(b) (dividing the residency of full siblings
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between their parents) to the residential custody determin

DALLAS, TX — A Dallas woman who stole the identity of a registered nurse and used that identity to work at several Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area hospice companies, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from that conduct.

Jada Necole Antoine, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in connection with means of identific

LOS ANGELES – Rite Aid Corporation has paid the United States $2.99 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inappropriately using gift cards as inducements, the Department of Justice announced today.

The settlement resolves allegations that Rite Aid offered illegal inducements to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to transfer their prescriptions to

This is Dagmar Hale's second appeal in a class action against Sharp Healthcare and Sharp Grossmont Hospital (together Sharp) contending Sharp unfairly charged her and other uninsured patients more for emergency services than the fees it accepted from patients covered by private insurance or governmental plans. In the first appeal, we partially reversed a judgment of dismissal following a demurrer.

DALLAS, TX — A former employee at Parkland Hospital in Dallas appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver, to a federal felony offense stemming from his theft of patient information from the hospital.

Viju Mathew, 49, of Garland, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud and related activity in connection with identification

MISSOULA, MT – A respiratory therapist from Rexford, Montana was sentenced to 12 months and one day for defrauding Medicaid of over $1.4 million and filing tax returns that failed to report her correct income resulting in a tax loss of over $200,000. Anna Sue Tope, 67, was the vice president of Eagle Calf Technical Corporation (Eagle Calf), a company providing medical equipment and services

This is a medical malpractice case arising out of the treatment of Rosamond Mattox at Life Care of Lewiston (LCL). The plaintiff-appellant, Rosamond’s son Gene Mattox, claimed that LCL’s sub-standard care caused his mother’s death. The district court excluded Gene’s experts’ affidavits after concluding that they failed to demonstrate actual knowledge of the appli

Defendant, Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., appeals from a December 16, 2013 order denying its petition to compel arbitration and strike class claims. Plaintiff, Maucabrina Willis, cross-appeals from a December 16, 2013 order denying her Code of Civil Procedure section 128.71 sanctions motion. Plaintiff and defendant are subject to both individual and collective bargaining agreements. Defendant ar

We accepted jurisdiction to review the Third District Court of Appeal’s decision in Garcon v. Agency for Health Care Administration, 96 So. 3d 472 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012), based on express and direct conflict with Smith v. Agency for Health Care Administration, 24 So. 3d 590 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009), and Roberts v. Albertson’s, Inc., 119 So. 3d 457 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012), on the issue of whether

Visiting Nurse Association of Florida, Inc., seeks review of the decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Jupiter Medical Center, Inc. v. Visiting Nurse Ass’n of Florida, Inc., 72 So. 3d 184 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011), on the ground that it expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Commercial Interiors Corp. of Boca Raton v. Pinkerton & Law

SACRAMENTO, CA – Biotronik Inc. of Lake Oswego, Oregon, has agreed to pay the United States $4.9 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company made various improper payments to induce physicians to use devices manufactured and sold by Biotronik, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and the Justice Department announced today.

“When medical dev

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Dignity Health has agreed to pay the United States $37 million to settle allegations that 13 of its hospitals in California, Nevada, and Arizona knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly, outpatient basis, announced today United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Acting Assistant Attorney Genera