An interesting SDNY settlement agreement resolves some False Claims Act allegations, but leaves others for another day. Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNS) paid just under $35 million to the United States and New York State to settle allegations that VNS improperly billed Medicaid for 1,740 members whose needs did not qualify for a managed care plan. The government
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Columbia Pays $9 Million In False Claims Act Case For Mischarging Federal Grant Money

Columbia University agreed to pay $9 million this week in settlement of a SDNY False Claims Act case alleging that it had submitted false claims in connection with federal grants funding AIDS and HIV related work. Columbia was the grant administrator on behalf of ICAP, an entity that received millions of dollars in federal grants for support and services for…
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Admission of Wrongdoing Requirement May Make SDNY Less Attractive to Qui Tam Relators
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 …
False Claims Act Settlement Requires Admission of Conduct
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York recently announced the settlement of a health care False Claims Act case against Beth Israel Medical Center for fraudulently inflating its fees for services provided to Medicare patients in order to obtain larger “outlier payments.” Beth Israel agreed to pay over $13 million to settle the Government’s claims for…
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