November 04, 2024
Three whistleblowers who tipped off the federal government to a medical device company's multimillion-dollar kickback scheme are entitled to a cut of the $3 million in False Claims Act settlements paid by surgeons who admitted participating in the sham consulting ploy, a Boston federal judge ruled Monday.
October 15, 2024
Whistleblowers who accused a medical device company of a kickback scheme said Tuesday that the government left them out to dry when it settled False Claims Act claims with surgeons for $3.3 million and refused to share any of it with them.
May 17, 2024
Three whistleblowers who tipped off the federal government to a medical device company's multimillion-dollar kickback scheme said Friday the Justice Department is refusing to pay them a cut of the $3 million in False Claims Act settlements paid by surgeons who admitted participating in the sham consulting ploy.
April 27, 2020
An orthopedic surgeon agreed to pay the government $1.75 million to settle allegations that he accepted kickbacks in the form of sham consulting payments from a medical device company, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office said.
March 05, 2020
A medical device company greased the palms of surgeons to use its spinal products with more than $8 million of kickbacks in the form of sham consulting contracts, the government alleges in a civil fraud case unsealed Thursday in Massachusetts federal court.