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PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – An Oregon jury awarded 12 Army National Guardsmen $ 85 million in damages from defense contractor KBR Inc. on Friday after finding that the company failed to protect them from exposure to cancer-causing chemicals when they served in Iraq.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian cancer treatment equipment maker IBA said it has signed a $ 40 million deal for the installation of a treatment facility in Louisiana.
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Birmingham, Alabama (PRWEB) August 31, 2012
With more than a decade of experience as an accountant and healthcare billing specialist, Wendy Horne is fastidious when it comes to following Medicare regulations a trait she believes made her unpopular with her former employer Pinnacle Medical Solutions, a Mississippi-based durable medical equipment supplier.
When Horne became convinced that Pinnacle was submitting false claims not only to the overly-strapped Medicare system but also to Tricare the healthcare system for our nations veterans she decided she couldnt keep quiet. Her 2009 qui tam Complaint — U.S. ex. rel. Horne v. Pinnacle, cv-09-BE-1193, NDAL — states that she first brought her allegations to the companys leadership; then after seeing little change she notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
According to Pinnacles website, the company offers home delivery of medical supplies to diabetic patients, including insulin pumps, test strips, and other durable medical equipment. According to the allegations in her qui tam Complaint however, Pinnacles strategy was to send as much equipment to as many people as possible without regard to whether such equipment was medically necessary or [had] been properly prescribed or documented or whether the patient actually need[ed] or [had] ordered it.
The settlement documents announced today recite that Hornes initial report to HHS resulted in a voluntary repayment by Pinnacle of $ 236,204. Now, the company has agreed to re-pay an additional $ 1,663,647.85 pursuant to the terms of the settlement documents. Wendy Horne put her career on the line to stand up for our nations veterans and the elderly, said Jim Barger, of Frohsin & Barger, LLC, one of Hornes attorneys. She was faced with the choice of reporting her allegations and suffering the consequences or keeping quiet and suffering the pangs of conscience for most people that would be a tough choice, but I dont believe Wendy considered keeping mum. Thats just who she is.
While it has been said that conscience is its own reward, the False Claims Act rewards whistleblowers with between 15 and 25% of recoveries in cases where the government intervenes.
A Civil War-Era statute, the False Claims Act has of late become the most powerful tool in addressing healthcare fraud due in no small part to whistleblowers and their attorneys. Barger and partner Henry Frohsin founded their firm together with Elliott Walthall in 2008 to concentrate on representing whistleblowers under the False Claims Act after years with a large civil defense firm. In the less than four years after opening its doors, Frohsin & Barger, LLC has recovered more than $ 32 million in qui tam suits on behalf of whistleblowers and the taxpayers.
Its an honor to represent people like Wendy, said Frohsin. Too many people are all too willing to turn a blind eye it takes courage to be a whistleblower, and that courage deserves to be rewarded.
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Minnesota Finalizes Million Contract For Online Health Exchange
The state announced the two-year contract with Maximus, a Virginia-based company, to design and maintain a state-run insurance exchange.
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Ky. governor creates health insurance exchange
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has issued an executive order creating a statewide health insurance exchange, following up on his promise to do so once the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal health care overhaul.
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Experts offer strategies on launching exchanges
As states play a game of “beat the clock” to establish their health insurance exchanges by 2014, a panel of experts in Washington discussed some effective strategies to form those marketplaces. Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown served as the first of …
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Dialysis service provider DaVita Inc. will pay $ 55 million to settle a lawsuit related to overuse of an anemia medication.
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Health care reform likely enabled about 6.6 million young adults to join their parents’ health insurance plans last year, a report found on Friday, though problems with medical bills and debt remained an issue.
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OSLO (Reuters) – The United States and Norway each pledged on Friday to give in the range of $ 75 million to help protect mothers during labor, delivery and the first 24 hours after birth.