Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participation in a scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses have pled guilty to wire fraud conspiracy.

Krystal Lopez and Damian Lopez (both of Palm Beach County, Fla.); Francois Legagneur (of Nassau County, N.Y.), Reynoso Seide (of Union County, N.J.); and Yelva Sain... More...   $0 (05-16-2023 - FL)

Portland, Maine civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a False Claims Act violation theory.

Gary S. Winn, D.O., the false former medical director and owner of a family medical practice in Biddeford and Sanford, Provider’s Care, submitted false claims to Medicare and MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program) from January 2014 through November 2017. MaineCare is... More...   $0 (05-12-2023 - Me)

Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud.

Kelly McCallum, 41, of Dyersburg, was an advance practice registered nurse who operated Convenient Care Clinic and held a registration from the DEA, which allowed her to prescribe controlled substances. From January 2017 until early 2021, McCal... More...   $0 (05-09-2023 - TN)

Seattle, Washington civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused for fraudulently billing the federal government for health care services that were never performed.

The U.S. Department of Justice, the Washington State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division, accused United Wound Healing, P.S. with violating the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare and Med... More...   $0 (05-08-2023 - WA)

Lynchburg, Virginia civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act.

From 2017 and continuing through May 2021, 1st Adult & Pediatrics. headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, billed Virginia Medicaid for reimbursements for in-home health care services for pediatric patients who were actually hospitalized at the time the in-home services were billed. I... More...   $0 (05-03-2023 - VA)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that Dr. James McGuckin violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for medically unnecessary invasive peripheral artery procedures in patients’ legs between at least January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2019, and for which McGuckin and h... More...   $0 (05-02-2023 - PA)

Los Angeles, California civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to both Medicare and Medicaid.

The settlement announced today resolves allegations that Dr. Joel Aronowitz; Daniel Aronowitz; Joel A. Aronowitz, M.D., a medical corporation; Tower Multi-Specialty Medical Group; Tower Wound... More...   $0 (04-29-2023 - CA)

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with tampering with consumer products.

From October 1, 2018, to February 18, 2020, Jennifer L. Adams, age 38, from Whitestown, Indiana, repeatedly tampered with vials of injectable pain medications, including fentanyl, morphine, hydromorphone, and ketamine, while employed as a registered nurse in the emergency dep... More...   $0 (04-12-2023 - IN)

Charlotte, North Carolina whistleblower lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a False Claims Act villaton theory claiming that it knowingly billed federal health care programs for medications that were never dispensed.

The United States alleged that, from Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2019, MedCare billed both Medicare Part D and North Carolina Medicaid for 200 prescription... More...   $0 (04-10-2023 - NC)

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with health care fraud.

Howard Jackson, 69, of Florissant, Missouri, admitted he routinely billed Medicare and Medicaid for procedures he did not perform.

“Health care providers who commit fraud for financial gain threaten the integrity of our health care system and the basic expectation of competen... More...   $0 (04-07-2023 - IL)

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with leading a sprawling scheme to defraud Medicaid of millions of dollars through the billing of fraudulent transportation claims.

From August 2017 to February 2020, KJ Transportation C Services Inc. (“KJ”) was paid more than $20 million for providing transportation services for Medicaid enrollees in the New Y... More...   $0 (03-29-2023 - NY)

Sherman, Texas civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant accused of paying kickbacks to optometrists to induce referrals of patients who were candidates for cataract surgery in in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.

Arlington Ophthalmology Association, P.L.L.C. d/b/a Kleiman Evangelista Eye Centers (“K&E”), with offices located in Arlington, Dallas, Plano... More...   $0 (03-24-2023 - TX)