East St. Louis, Ill. – The United States filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against General Medicine, P.C. (“General Medicine”), Thomas M. Prose, M.D. – the owner of General Medicine, and seventeen related corporate entities owned by Prose. In a 96-page complaint, the government alleges Defendants violated the False Claims Act in a widespread healthcare fraud scheme involving the submission of thousands of false claims to the Medicare program. Since 2016, Medicare has paid defendants over $40 million ...
HOUSTON – The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Rick... of Illinois-based Cardiac Imaging Inc. (CII), a provider of mobile cardiac positron emission...
FALSE CLAIMS ACT AMENDMENTS HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ONADMINISTRATIVE LAWAND... HYDE, Illinois THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio DAN LUNGREN, California F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR....
The False Claims Act and Health Care: 2023 Recoveries and 2024 Outlook by: John H. Lawrence, G. Norman Acker III, Nora E. Becerra, Natalia A. Nino, Michael H. Phillips of K&L Gates - K&L...
CHICAGO — A Chicago health care company and its owner will pay $1 million to the United States to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare. BRIAN J. WEINSTEIN and APOLLO HEALTH INC. violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for care plan oversight services that were not actually performed, according to a consent judgment and settlement agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Care plan oversight services (“CPO”) involve a physician’s supervision of a patient receiving ...
served':Man claims Chicago cop framed him for murder at 15.... In Illinois, there have been 100 wrongful convictions predicated on false confessions, 31 of which involved minors in recent...
The False Claims Act dates back to the civil war which was marked by fraud at all levels, federal, state and confederacy.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Judges in Illinois will still have discretion to order suspects for... at Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, which is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, distorting...
Wherever Government dollars are spent – whether for national defense, healthcare, acquisition of goods and services, small and disadvantaged businesses, transportation and infrastructure improvements, housing subsidies, grants or aid in emergencies – scrutiny follows. The False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §3729 et. seq., has become the primary weapon in the federal government’s arsenal to combat fraud, waste, and abuse. Sheppard Mullin’s attorneys are among the nation’s leading specialists...
The Chicago false claims act protects whistleblowers of retaliation from their employer. Chicago Whistleblower Act ensures that employers may not make rules that prevent an employee from disclosing...