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Cardinal Health to pay $13M to settle claims it paid kickbacks to doctors

February 1, 2022 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ) announced that Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) agreed to pay more than $13 million to resolve kickback allegations. Allegations against Dublin, Ohio-based include a violation of the False Claims Act by paying “upfront discounts” to its physician practice customers in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Get the full story at our sister site, Pharmaceutical […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Legal News, News Well, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Cardinal Health, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Avanos Medical to pay more than $22M to resolve criminal charges with DOJ

July 9, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Justice Dept. announced that Avanos Medical (NYSE:AVNS) agreed to pay more than $22 million to resolve a criminal charge related to fraudulent misbranding. Charges levied against the Alpharetta, Ga.-based medical device company relate to alleged fraudulent misbranding of its MicroCool surgical gowns. According to a DOJ news release, criminal information filed on July […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Lab Instruments & Supplies, Legal News, Surgical Tagged With: Avanos Medical (formerly Halyard Health), FDA, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Spine surgeon settles with DOJ for $4.4M in whistleblower case

May 3, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Department of Justice today announced a $4.4 million settlement with spine surgeon Wilson Asfora in a whistleblower case. According to a news release from the Joseph Greenwald & Laake law firm, which represented the whistleblowers, Asfora settled for the $4.4 million sum and a six-year exclusion from all federal payer programs, effectively precluding […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Neurological Tagged With: Medtronic, Sanford Health, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Feds charge medical testing company with fraud

March 19, 2021 By Sean Whooley

A federal grand jury has charged the uBiome co-founders with multiple federal crimes, including two fraud charges, money laundering and more. Now bankrupt, uBiome was founded by Zachary Apte, 36, and Jessica Richman, 46, in 2012 as a medical testing company that performed diagnostic analysis on fecal samples. The company offered a direct-to-consumer service called […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Legal News Tagged With: U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ), uBiome

Medtronic paying DOJ $9.2M to settle restaurant kickback allegations

October 30, 2020 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ) announced that Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) will pay a total of about $9.2 million to settle improper payment allegations. Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic agreed to pay $8.1 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations regarding kickbacks for a South Dakota neurosurgeon, along with an additional $1.11 million related to allegations of Open […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Neurological Tagged With: Medtronic, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

South Dakota provider to pay $20m to settle POD case

October 29, 2019 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Justice Dept. said yesterday that Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center and Sanford Clinic of Sioux Falls, S.D., agreed to pay more than $20 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs. The allegations include violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and medically unnecessary spinal surgeries, according to a statement […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Medicare Tagged With: Sanford Health, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

ResMed reveals tentative $40m settlement with feds

July 29, 2019 By Brad Perriello

ResMed (NYSE:RMD) last week revealed a tentative, $40 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Dept. to resolve a three-year probe into its resupply business. The San Diego-based respiratory company said it set aside $41.2 million to cover the $39.5 million settlement and any legal and administrative costs. In July 2016 the Justice Dept. subpoenaed ResMed for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News, Respiratory, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: ResMed Inc., U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Baxter cleared from DoJ antitrust saline probe

February 1, 2019 By Fink Densford

Baxter (NYSE:BAX) said yesterday that it has been cleared from a U.S. Dept. of Justice antitrust probe, launched in 2017, investigating companies that market intravenous saline solutions. The probe came as hospitals endured a shortage of intravenous saline solutions, which are used to hydrate hospital patients. The shortage dates back to late 2013, after drugmakers told […]

Filed Under: Hospital Care, Legal News, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Baxter, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Feds indict 9 in $950m Operation “Spinal Cap” fraud case

July 2, 2018 By Fink Densford

US federal prosecutors with the Department of Justice this week unsealed charges against nine new defendants they claim are part of a long-running healthcare fraud case responsible for more than $950 million in fraudulent claims. The fraud scheme was reportedly run by former Long Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Hospital owner Michael Drobot, who was involved in […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Spine Tagged With: U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Former S.D. dentist pleads guilty to $17m medtech fraud scheme

January 30, 2018 By Fink Densford

A former dentist from South Dakota plead guilty last week to a $16.6 million scheme to defraud consumers through the sale of a sham laser device and associated treatments, promising it would cure more than 200 different conditions, according to a US Department of Justice report. If you want a dentist you can really trust […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

Medical device enforcement is getting more serious—particularly in Northeast

February 21, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

There has been aggressive momentum on the side of federal medical device anti-corruption enforcers, in particular in the Northeast. Maureen Ruane and Scott McBride, Lowenstein Sandler There are more questions than answers on what a new and unconventional administration in the White House will do in 2017 in many areas, no less so in medical […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Anti- Kickback Statute, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Lowenstein Sandler, MedTech, U.S. Justice Dept. (DOJ)

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