A former employee of EndoGastric Solutions stands to receive up $945,000 from a successful qui tam False Claims Act case charging durable medical equipment fraud (DME Fraud) that was settled by the Department of Justice on February 19, 2014, with EndoGastric Solutions agreeing to pay $5.25 million to the government. The settlement resolves whistleblower allegations that EndoGastric caused prescribing physicians to submit up-coded bills to Medicare and also that the DME Manufacturer paid kickbacks to healthcare providers to induce sales, in violation of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
It is good to see the government continuing to pursue violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKBS). That has not always been the case.
Read more here: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/February/14-civ-173.html
