- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Jeff Dale2023-06-16T16:17:00
A South Carolina-based healthcare system agreed to pay $36.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) addressing alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), Stark Law, and Anti-Kickback Statute.
St. Francis Physician Services, St. Francis Hospital, and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System agreed to resolve allegations they paid orthopedic surgeons based on the volume or value of referrals, leading to false claims submitted to Medicare and TRICARE, the DOJ said in a press release Thursday.
The settlement resolves a lawsuit initially brought by Daniel Lee, chief of orthopedics at St. Francis from 2007-08, under the FCA’s qui tam provisions. According to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Lee blew the whistle on St. Francis after documenting Stark Law violations, including “payments to employed orthopedic surgeons based in part on the value of their referrals to the hospital system.”
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Indiana-based Community Health Network agreed to pay $345 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice resolving allegations it overcompensated physicians it employed at a rate that violated the Stark Law.
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.
Booz Allen Hamilton agreed to pay approximately $377.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice regarding alleged False Claims Act violations stemming from improper billing of commercial and international costs in government contracts.
USAA Federal Savings Bank has been hit with its third cease and desist order from the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the past five years for failing to correct unsafe and unsound banking practices.
Becton Dickinson medical device company will pay $175 million for “repeatedly” misleading investors about its Alaris infusion pump, a product the company knew was flawed and was sold without the required patient-safety approvals, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged bankrupt fashion retailer Express with failing to disclose nearly $1 million in perks to a former chief executive, but did not levy a financial penalty thanks to its cooperation, the SEC said.
