September 2008
Criminal and Civil Enforcement Report

Archive Criminal and Civil Enforcement Archive

September 30, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida: U.S. Attorney Announces Health Care Fraud Charges against Forty-one Defendants
September 29, 2008, Department of Justice: Biopharmaceutical Company, Cephalon, to Pay $425 Million & Enter Plea to Resolve Allegations of Off-Label Marketing
September 29, 2008, Department of Justice: Walgreens Pays U.S. $9.9 Million to Settle Medicaid Prescription Drug Allegations
September 26, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia: Luray Doctor Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Tax Perjury
September 24, 2008, Department of Justice: New Jersey Hospital to Pay $3.85 Million to Resolve Allegations of Inflating Charges to Obtain Higher Medicare Reimbursement
September 23, 2008, U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey: Owners of Newark Medical Business Admit Defrauding Medicare (PDF)
September 23, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Georgia: Three South Florida Men Sentenced for Medicare Fraud (PDF)
September 22, 2008, Department of Justice: Los Angeles Jury Convicts Defendant of Fraud Involving more than $1.1 Million in False Billing to Medicare
September 18, 2008, Department of Justice: Medicare Strike Force Indicts 18 Los Angeles Area Residents for Health Care Related Fraud
September 18, 2008, Department of Justice: Miami Physician's Assistant Pleads Guilty to Role in $119 Million HIV Infusion Fraud Scheme
September 15, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Kentucky: HealthEssentials Solutions, Inc. Sentenced to Pay Restitution in the Amount of $3,105,931 for Submitting False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters
September 15, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York: Staten Island University Hospital to Pay the U.S. $74 Million to Settle Claims of Defrauding Federal Health Care Programs
September 5, 2008, U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota: Rapid City Woman Pleads Guilty to Illegally Taking Pills from Sioux San Hospital
September 5, 2008, U.S. Attorney, Western District of Kentucky: Louisville, Kentucky Opthamologist and Wife Agree to Pay over $460,000 to Settle Federal False Claims and Civil Fraud Claims