by Lisa Dalga | Mar 31, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 31, 2021 Jeremy Richey, 40, of Mars, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty by videoconference to a superseding information charging him with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in connection with a scheme to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Richey...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 29, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 29, 2021 Rural/Metro Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $650,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance transports. According to the settlement agreement, from January...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 22, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 22, 2021 An Oakland County Cardiologist, Dinesh M. Shah, M.D. and his practice, Michigan Physicians Group, P.C. (MPG) have paid the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal healthcare...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 18, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 18, 2021 The civil and criminal healthcare fraud cases against FENG QIN, M.D. (“QIN”), a vascular surgeon, and his medical practice QIN MEDICAL P.C. (“QIN MEDICAL”) have been resolved. QIN, who practiced in Lower Manhattan and Far Rockaway, Queens, was...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 15, 2021 | Healthcare Fraud, Medicare Legal Action
March 15, 2021 Two Houston area men are now in custody on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud relating to a pharmacy fraud scheme. Authorities arrested Mohamed Mokbel, 56, and Fathy Elsafty, 62, both of Houston. 4M Pharmaceuticals Inc. was the parent...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 9, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 9, 2021 A Hollywood, Florida, woman, Janaina Nascimento, 38, was sentenced on March 4, 2021 to six months in federal prison, after previously being convicted of selling counterfeit Ethicon Surgicel® Original Hemostat (“Surgicel”), an absorbable surgical mesh...
