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Raleigh-based WakeMed has agreed to pay $8 million to settle an investigation into its practice of billing Medicare for expensive overnight hospital stays even though the patients had been treated and discharged the same day. The settlement resolves criminal charges brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Amgen to Pay $762 Million to Settle Whistleblower Suits
Last week, biotechnology giant Amgen agreed to pay some $762 million to resolve claims involving unlawful marketing of the anemia drug Aranesp. Federal prosecutors charged Amgen with illegally marketing Aranesp for unapproved uses even after the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) expressly ruled them out. The federal charges were made […]
Pew Report Shows Widespread Dissatisfaction with Consumer Arbitration
The Pew Charitable Trust has released a report on the use of arbitration clauses in financial institution customer agreements. The report contains Pew’s findings on arbitration clauses, including the prevalence of such clauses and consumer attitudes about them. Pew is likely to send the report to the Consumer Financial Protection […]
CFPB Continues Study of Consumer Arbitration
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is continuing work on its study of pre-dispute arbitration agreements. Section 1028 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires CFPB to conduct a study of and report to Congress concerning the use of arbitration clauses in consumer agreements. In April CFPB began work on the study […]
Baylor Health Settles Fraudulent Billing Claims
Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas has agreed to pay more than $900,000 to resolve charges that it submitted false claims to Medicare for radiation oncology services. The settlement, announced by the U.S. Department of Justice on November 27, 2012, resolves a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2010 by a […]
Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act Becomes Law
On November 27, 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the Whistleblower Protection Enforcement Act, a law that provides federal whistleblowers new and expanded protections. The law upgrades existing safeguards for federal employees who witness and report fraud, abuse, or waste within the federal government. The new law lowers the […]
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