Christopher Drennen v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.,

  1. July 12, 2024

    Whistleblower's Attys Get $5.9M After Losing $11.5M Fee Ask

    A Massachusetts federal judge awarded a whistleblower's counsel $5.9 million in fees plus $651,845 in costs and expenses after slashing their prior "exorbitant" $11.5 million fee request in May in a decade-old False Claims Act lawsuit alleging Fresenius Medical Care billed Medicare for unnecessary hepatitis tests.

  2. May 29, 2024

    Whistleblower Counsel Can't Get 'Exorbitant' $11.5M Fee

    A Boston federal judge slashed an "exorbitant" $11.5 million fee request made by counsel for a False Claims Act whistleblower in a case involving lab testing company Fresenius Medical Care, hammering the attorneys for inflated hourly rates, inflated time entries and a host of questionable billing practices.

  3. July 22, 2021

    Attys Seek $11.5M For Fighting Fresenius' 'Stalingrad' Defense

    A Fresenius whistleblower who spurred a $5.2 million settlement in a false-billing case said Thursday the dialysis services company's "Stalingrad" litigation tactics justify his bid for more than twice that amount in attorney fees, a request a defense lawyer called "comical."

  4. October 30, 2020

    Fresenius Fights $11.5M Atty Fee Bid In Medicare Case

    Dialysis services company Fresenius has urged a Massachusetts federal judge to reject a whistleblower's request for $11.5 million in attorney fees and costs as part of a suit claiming the company billed Medicare for unnecessary tests on patients.

  5. October 09, 2019

    Fresenius To Pay $5M To Resolve Mass. Medicare Fraud

    Dialysis services company Fresenius has agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle Justice Department allegations stemming from a whistleblower complaint that the company billed Medicare for unnecessary tests on patients.

  6. May 31, 2018

    Feds To Depose 12 New Docs In FCA Case Over Hep B Tests

    The federal government will be allowed to depose a dozen doctors, well short of the 95 it had initially requested, in a False Claims Act suit against Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. over allegedly fraudulently billed hepatitis B tests, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Thursday.

  7. March 30, 2018

    Gov't Can't Expand FCA Case Over Hep B Tests, Judge Says

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday refused let the government expand a False Claims Act suit against Fresenius Medical Care over allegedly fraudulently billed hepatitis B tests after intervening late in the game, ruling that the government was only granted permission to join the case as it stands.

  8. January 24, 2018

    Feds Push To Expand FCA Billing Suit Against Fresenius

    Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to side with a magistrate judge and let them add more claims to a whistleblower's allegation that Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for unnecessary hepatitis B tests.

  9. October 16, 2017

    Fresenius Can't Duck FCA Claims Over Hepatitis B Tests

    Fresenius Medical Care can't scrap parts of the federal government's complaint in a False Claims Act suit over allegedly unnecessary hepatitis B tests billed to Medicare, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Friday, rejecting arguments that the government can't add claims that weren't in the whistleblower's original filing.

  10. July 07, 2017

    Fresenius Asks Judge To Trim Feds' False Claims Suit

    Fresenius Medical Care asked a Massachusetts magistrate judge Friday to recommend tossing parts of the federal government's allegations that the dialysis company ripped off the government by making it pay for medically unnecessary hepatitis B tests.