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UPMC, others to pay government $2.5 million in Medicare billing case
UPMC and three related entities have agreed to pay the United States $2.5 million to partly settle a 2012 lawsuit claiming they...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Jul 27, 2016
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For-Profit College Company to Pay $95.5 Million to Settle Claims of Illegal Recruiting, Consumer Fraud
The United States has reached a landmark global settlement with Education Management Corp. (EDMC), the second-largest for-profit...
US DOJ
Nov 16, 2015
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Whistleblowers on front lines of fraud prosecutions
Pittsburgh, PA (September 27, 2015) - The accusation: A New Jersey company sold catheters meant to thread through veins to the very...
Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sep 27, 2015
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UPMC could still face lawsuit by Wholey over billing claims
He's a pioneer physician who co-founded a highly regarded medical device company. She's a philanthropist who fancies furs, collects...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Mar 21, 2015
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Lawsuit charges UPMC, cardiology office overbilled, double-billed feds
PMC and a cardiology office routinely overbilled and double-billed federal health insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Affairs
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Mar 18, 2015
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Whistleblower Seeks Stark Law Win In Hospital Kickback Suit
Law360, New York (October 9, 2014, 4:41 PM EDT) -- A whistleblower on Wednesday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to grant partial...
Law 360
Oct 9, 2014
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Doctors: Half-million-dollar settlement in Whistleblower case isn’t enough
The proposed half-million-dollar federal settlement for doctors Peter Vaccaro and Kamran Saleh isn’t enough, say the four doctors who...
Bradford Era
Aug 27, 2014
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TELLING FOR DOLLARS Under False Claims Act, whistleblowers get their share of billions
Constance Lyttle's job at AT&T slowly shifted from helping deaf people make phone calls, to assisting the efforts of foreign scam artists...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Feb 22, 2014
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Mother Dies Amid Abuses in $110 Billion U.S. Stent Assembly Line
Najam Azmat snaked a catheter on a guide wire into Judi Gary’s groin as he tried to insert a stent in an artery supplying blood to her...
Bloomberg
Oct 27, 2013
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Needless Stents Alleged at Kentucky Hospital Amid 2-Year Probe
An Appalachian Kentucky hospital that’s been among the nation’s leaders in the rate of coronary stenting is under federal investigation...
Bloomberg
Oct 7, 2013
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Deaths Linked to Cardiac Stents Rise as Overuse Seen
When Bruce Peterson left the U.S. Postal Service after 24 years delivering mail, he started a travel agency. It was his dream career, his...
Bloomberg
Sep 26, 2013
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Hospice of Arizona and Related Entities Pay $12 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Hospice of Arizona L.C., along with a related entity, American Hospice Management LLC, and their parent corporation, American Hospice...
US DOJ
Mar 20, 2013
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Federal suit claims Hamot, heart doctors defrauded Medicare
A cardiologist once affiliated with Hamot Medical Center is claiming the hospital and a group of Erie doctors defrauded Medicare by...
Erie Times
Jan 22, 2012
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Court Finds Bradford Regional Medical Center Violated Federal Law Faces More than $20 Million in Pot
A federal judge has ruled that Bradford Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, violated...
Stone Law Firm / PR Newswire
Nov 12, 2010
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Tyrone Hospital being sued by two former employees
Tyrone Hospital is being sued by two former employees who contend the medical facility submitted false and fraudulent billings to the...
TyronePA.com
Jun 28, 2006
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