In U.S. ex rel. Fair Laboratory Practices Associates v. Quest Diagnostic, Inc., the Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of a health care fraud qui tam action because of ethical violations by one of the relators, who was formerly general counsel of defendant Unilab Corporation.
The former general counsel, along with two other former employees of Unilab, formed a partnership
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In U.S. ex rel. Wolfson v. Park Avenue Medical Associates, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York entered into a $1 million False Claims Act settlement against three related companies for improperly billing Medicare for behavioral health services. The settlement agreement provided that the defendants “admit, acknowledge and accept responsibility for” (1) billing Medicare for
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced that it had recovered nearly $5 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act in fiscal year 2012. The $4.959 billion figure was a new record for a single year, eclipsing the previous one-year record by $1.7 billion.
In breaking down the $5 billion in recoveries, Acting Associate Attorney General
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In a recent Southern District of New York decision, Judge Jed S. Rakoff examined the original source exception to the False Claims Act’s (“FCA”) public disclosure bar. In United States ex rel. Associates Against Outlier Fraud v. Huron Consulting Group, Inc., 2012 WL 506824 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 16, 2012), the relator alleged that defendant Huron Consulting, through its control of
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