Lifewatch Services, Inc., an Illinois-based company, recently agreed to pay the United States $18.5 Million to resolve False Claims Act allegations filed by two separate whistleblowers. In addition to the settlement, Lifewatch entered into a comprehensive Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General.
The whistleblower complaints alleged that Lifewatch improperly billed Medicare for ambulatory cardiac telemetry (“ACT”) services. Continue reading
On July 8, 2010, the OIG released a press release announcing that it entered into a 7.3 million dollar civil monetary penalty (“CMP”) settlement agreement with United Shockwave Services, United Prostate Centers, and United Urology Centers (the “Settlement Parties”), all based in the Chicago, Illinois area. The agreement settles charges that, by soliciting and receiving payments from hospitals in exchange for patient referrals, the Settlement Parties violated Federal anti-kickback laws. Continue reading
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Posted in Acute Care, Anti-Kackback, Civil Litigation, Corporate Integrity Agreements, Fraud and Abuse, Hospital, Illinois, Medicare, OIG, Out-Patient Care, Physicians, Self-Referral, Settlements
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Ari J. Markenson, JD, MPH
Janet K. Feldkamp RN BSN LNHA CHC JD
Robert W. Markette, Jr. CHC
W. Clifford Mull
Frank W. Carsonie
Daniel J. O'Brien
Benjamin J. Parsons
Meredith L. Rosenbeck
Alan E. Schabes
