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By Adrianne Appel2024-07-26T13:36:00
Admera Health agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations first brought by two whistleblowers that it paid kickbacks to third-party contractors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
New Jersey-based Admera will pay nearly $5.4 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute and nearly $148,000 to individual states over reimbursed claims to Medicare, the DOJ said in a press release Wednesday.
The case resolves claims first brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Sunil Wadwa and Ken Newton, co-founders of Financial Halo–a former third-party marketer of Admera. The whistleblowers will receive more than $862,000, the DOJ said.
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