- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2024-07-02T14:42:00
A home health company operating in Indiana, Ohio, and Texas agreed to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle allegations it filed false claims by giving sports tickets and other kickbacks to assisted living facilities in exchange for referrals.
Evolution Health, owner of Guardian Health Care, Gem City Home Care, and Care Connection of Cincinnati, agreed to pay $2.1 million in restitution in reaching settlement, according to a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice, signed Friday.
Between 2013 and 2022, the companies made lease payments and gave wellness health services, sports tickets, and meals to 46 assisted living facilities and 15 doctors and physician groups in exchange for Medicare patient referrals, according to the settlement. In doing so, the companies violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act.
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Florida-based Baptist Health System agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle self-disclosed violations of the False Claims Act for allegedly offering discounts to patients to induce purchases or refer services reimbursed by Medicare.
Lincare, a supplier of durable medical equipment, agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle allegations it billed federal health programs for the rental of ventilator machines after patients no longer needed to use them.
Prema Thekkek and the six skilled nursing homes she owned through her company, Paksn, agreed to pay $45.6 million in entering a consent judgment with the Department of Justice to resolve allegations employees paid kickbacks to doctors who brought patients to them.
Three former executives of Chicago-based Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, were sentenced for misleading an auditor, clients, lenders, and investors about a scheme to sell $45 million in overbilled advertisements.
Crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank will pay a total of $63 million penalties to California and the Federal Reserve Board to settle charges that its anti-money laundering program failed to properly monitor over $1 trillion worth of customer transactions.
A Minnesota dermatology practice, its owner, and chief executive agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle allegations, first brought by two whistleblowers, that the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statue by making false claims to Medicare.
