April 13, 2016
The Fifth Circuit said Wednesday that two men imprisoned for Medicare-related False Claims Act violations could not appeal a $2.1 million civil judgment against them in a related whistleblower suit over their alleged practice of double-billing for hyperbaric oxygen therapy services.
September 09, 2015
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday ordered two principals of a hyperbaric oxygen therapy provider to pay $2.1 million, plus attorneys' fees and costs, in a whistleblower's Medicare-related False Claims Act suit, more than a year after they were sentenced for criminal health care fraud.
January 23, 2015
The whistleblower in a Medicare billing False Claims Act suit against two principals of a hyperbaric oxygen therapy provider asked a Texas federal judge Thursday to grant her partial summary judgment, arguing the defendants' related convictions for health care fraud estop them from denying her allegations.