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A COVID-19 Club Con: The Detroit Club Owners and Operators Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  03/25/25
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In the latest example of the government’s ongoing crackdown on Covid-19 fraud, a Michigan-based hotel, social club, and restaurant, The Detroit Club, along with its owners and operators, will pay $357,669 to settle allegations that they defrauded COVID-19 pandemic relief programs in violation of the False Claims Act. The settling parties/defendants include Detroit Management Corporation, Lynn Kassotis, Citi...

Vix Technology Inc. Pays $2M+ to Settle Allegations of COVID-19 PPP Loan Fraud

Posted  03/21/25
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Whistleblowers have been instrumental in the surge of recent government actions against COVID-19 relief fraud. On March 19, the government announced that Vix Technology Inc. (“Vix”) will pay double damages of $2,144,114 to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently submitted their qualifications for, and received, a COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration...

Texas Nursing Facility and Hospital Agree to Pay $6.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  03/11/25
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On February 28, the government that the Texas-based skilled nursing facility, Providence Park, Inc., (DBA Ascension Living Providence Village) and acute care hospital, Ascension Providence, (FKA Providence Health Services of Waco), settled allegations that the Federal False Claims Act and the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act were violated. The total amount paid to resolve the claims is...

Michigan Manufacturer Rosler USA Will Pay $2.2M+ to Settle COVID-19 PPP Loan Program Fraud Allegations

Posted  03/6/25
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The Battle Creek, Michigan-based manufacturer, Rosler Metal Finishing USA LLC (AKA Rosler), to pay more than $2.2 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the COVID-19-era Paycheck Protection Program, which was initiated as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020 and administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA). The PPP was meant to provide loans to...

10th Circuit Rejects Expansion of Collateral Order Doctrine for Public Disclosure Bar

Posted  03/5/25
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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals for-profit college Colorado Technical University's (“CTU”) appeal of the district court’s denial of its motion to dismiss, holding that CTU failed to meet the high burden required to expand the collateral order doctrine to include the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar. This case alleges CTU fraudulently misrepresented compliance with federal credit hour...

COVID-19 Con: Connecticut Company Pays $2M+ to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to PPP Loan

Posted  02/28/25
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Although the pandemic has ended, government enforcement against fraudsters who took advantage of emergency government assistance programs continues. On February 25, in a case brought by a whistleblower, the government that the Waterbury, Connecticut company, MacDermid Incorporated paid $2,226,623.62 to settle False Claims Act allegations that its subsidiary, Coventya Inc., falsely certified its...

A “Saad” Case of Medicare Fraud: Saad Healthcare Pays $3M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  02/25/25
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On February 21, the government that Saad Enterprises Inc. (DBA Saad Healthcare) will pay $3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act from 2013-2020 by submitting false claims for the care of 21 Alabama-based Medicare ineligible hospice patients who were not terminally ill. Hospice is end-of-life palliative care for terminally ill patients who move away from traditional curative...

Grassley to Trump and DOJ: We Want Whistleblowers

Posted  02/21/25
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For the past forty years, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has been universally recognized as one of the strongest whistleblower champions in Congress.  He is the architect of the modern-day False Claims Act -- which allows whistleblowers to sue fraudsters on behalf of the government -- spiriting through key amendments to increase the whistleblower incentives and protections under the statute.  He has been...

Health Net Federal Services, LLC and Centene Corporation Agree to Settle False Claims Act Violations Related to Cybersecurity, Paying Over $11M

Posted  02/21/25
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On February 18, the government that the Rancho Cordova, California-based Health Net Federal Services Inc. (HNFS) and its parent company, St. Louis’s Centene Corporation, will pay $11,253,400 to resolve claims that HNFS falsely certified compliance with cybersecurity requirements in a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to administer the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) TRICARE health benefits program...

Saint Vincents to Pay $29M to Settle False Claims Act Charges of Inflated Payments for Retired Military Care

Posted  02/19/25
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Last Friday (February 14), Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of New York (now known as SVCMC Inc.) agreed to pay $29 million to Department of Justice (DOJ) and whistleblower charges of violating the False Claims Act by keeping overpayments from the Department of Defense (DOD) for healthcare services to retired military members and their families. Saint Vincents is one of six health plans in DOD's...