California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a lawsuit on Thursday against 39 pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of defrauding the state of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants attempted to maximize profits by engaging in insidious sales schemes to increase market share. Specifically, they provided false and misleading information with full knowledge […]

HealthSouth Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of rehabilitative medicine services, has agreed to pay the United States $325 million to settle allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other federal healthcare programs, the Department of Justice said Thursday.
“When a company defrauds our nation’s health care programs, it steals from the American taxpayers,” Assistant Attorney […]

Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert said on Monday that his Medicaid Fraud Control Section has secured $6,175,000 for the Pennsylvania Medicaid Program as its share of a national settlement with Schering-Plough Corporation.
The settlement is part of a national $290 million settlement following a guilty plea by Schering Sales Corporation, a subsidiary of Schering-Plough, to criminal […]

After ordering a two-month long investigation and legal analysis, the Tenet Shareholder Committee said the health care services company may face up to $6 billion in legal liability to the federal government as a result of an unlawful scheme to defraud Medicare.
“Faced with the growing number of government probes, Tenet’s Board of Directors had the […]

Federal officials are probing whether HealthSouth Corp., the nation’s largest operator of rehabilitation hospitals, cheated Medicare out of tens of millions of dollars or more, people involved in the case said.
The investigation of possible Medicare fraud is the latest blow to HealthSouth, which is the subject of an accounting scandal set off by a […]