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Three health care providers in California have agreed to pay $22.5 million pursuant to two settlement agreements in order to resolve claims that they violated the federal False Claims Act and the state False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medi-Cal related to Medicaid Adult Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. […]

On December 14, 2022, the Department of Justice announced in a statement that Academy Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage company based in Draper, Utah, agreed to pay $38.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations related to mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). A former underwriter of Academy Mortgage Corporation blew the whistle by […]

The False Claims Act (“FCA”) has long included protections from retaliation for whistleblowers who engage in conduct in furtherance of a lawsuit under the qui tam provision of the Act. Section 3730(h) of the FCA, the “Relief from retaliatory actions” provision, entitled an employee to relief if that employee was retaliated against by their employer […]

On December 6, 2022, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., a case regarding the government’s authority to dismiss a False Claims Act qui tam suit after it initially declined to pursue the suit. The facts of the case are straightforward. Respondent Executive […]

On November 1, 2022, Florida-based electronic health record (“EHR”) vendor, Modernizing Medicine, Inc. (“Mod Med”), agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by providing and accepting illegal remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and causing its users to submit false claims. The claims arose from […]

Two Pennsylvania health companies, BioTelemetry, and its subsidiary, CardioNet LLC, have agreed to pay over $44 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare, TRICARE, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Federal Health Benefits Program for heart monitoring tests. The United States government claimed that CardioNet […]

On December 14, 2022, the Department of Justice reported that Dr. Vijesh Patel, M.D., and his wife, Laju Patel, who was his office manager, agreed to pay over $420,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations that the couple referred patients for laboratory testing in exchange for kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. The federal […]

Utah-based mortgage company Academy Mortgage Corporation (“Academy”) agreed to pay $38.5 million to the United States to settle allegations that Academy violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting deficient home loans. The settlement resulted from a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2016 in the Northern District of California by former Academy employee, Gwen […]

On November 29, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that North Carolina government contractor, PowerSecure Inc., has agreed to pay $8.4 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act. The settlement resolves allegations that PowerSecure’s failed to provide certified cost or pricing data to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when negotiating […]

Medical Product Manufacturer, Coloplast, recently agreed to pay $14.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its dealings with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. The settlement came after the company self-reported that it violated the Trade Agreements Act and the Price Reduction Clause in its contract with the VA. The […]