in Norwalk, has agreed to pay a $459,721 settlement for allegedly committing a Medicaid “patient recruiting” kickback scheme during the second half of 2018. Attorney General William Tong and t ...

SelectQuote said it strongly disagrees with the Justice Department's allegations that it and other health-insurance brokers were paid illegal kickbacks by major insurers. The complaint from May 1 ...

A decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals has deepened the legal debate surrounding False Claims Act (FCA) actions based on violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). This decision has ...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston city councilor on Monday pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges after prosecutors accused her of taking most of an inflated bonus that she paid to a relative who worked ...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston city councilor on Monday pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges after prosecutors accused her of taking most of an inflated bonus that she paid to a relative who ...

The DOJ alleged that from 2016 through at least 2021, the insurers paid hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to the brokers. Kickbacks are illegal payments in exchange for favorable treatment.

The Justice Department filed a complaint alleging some of the biggest Medicare insurers paid kickbacks to brokers that sell such plans, seeking to grab market share and in some cases avoid ...

“Health care companies that attempt to profit from kickbacks will be held accountable,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Granston of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. Medicare ...

Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care.

Gilead gave the money to doctors who spoke at HIV Speaker Program events in the form of honoraria payments, meals and travel expenses, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, which ...

Gilead Sciences agreed to pay $202 million to the U.S. government and various states to settle civil claims that the drugmaker used speaker programs to pay kickbacks to doctors to induce them to ...