June 16, 2017
Genesis HealthCare Inc., one of the largest providers of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services in the U.S., will pay the federal government $53.6 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that its subsidiaries provided medically unnecessary and "grossly substandard" care, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
February 24, 2017
The U.S. and a Nevada hospice have reached an agreement settling whistleblower claims that the health care provider violated the False Claims Act by seeking Medicare reimbursement for services provided to ineligible patients, both sides told a Nevada federal court Thursday.
April 14, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday attacked a Nevada hospice's bid to beat whistleblower allegations that it breached the False Claims Act by exaggerating patient illnesses, saying the company can't use physician certifications to conceal its knowledge that beneficiaries weren't terminally ill.
February 27, 2015
A hospice provider on Thursday urged a Nevada federal court to dismiss a False Claims Act complaint that alleges bogus billing of Medicare and Medicaid for serving patients who weren't terminally ill, saying whistleblowing former employees and the U.S. Department of Justice failed to show that physicians acted improperly.