By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - Aetna, a unit of CVS Health, agreed to pay $117.7 million to resolve U.S.

Aetna was accused of submitting false patient diagnosis data for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to get higher monthly payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Aetna, the second-biggest Medicare Advantage company in the Philadelphia area, has agreed to pay $117.7 million to settle claims of false billing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia announced ...

Aetna Inc., a national insurer incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $117,700,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting or failing to ...

Health insurance company Aetna has agreed to pay over $117 million to Pennylvanians to resolve allegations that it violated ...

A Sarasota lab agreed to pay $980,000 to settle federal allegations of illegal kickbacks and false Medicare billing, ...

Aetna has agreed to pay $117.7 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting or failing to withdraw inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Adva ...

The Department of Justice is preparing to investigate a growing number of False Claims Act cases involving skin substitutes, with more cases expected, according to a Feb. 6 blog post from law firm ...

Healthcare fraud continues to plague providers, managed care, and drug companies. $5.7 billion of the $6.8 billion recovered by DOJ was generated from the healthcare industry. There is a bottomless ...

Tri-City Cardiology and three physicians agree to a $4.75M False Claims Act settlement over allegedly unnecessary vein ...

Federal enforcement of the False Claims Act (FCA) against healthcare and pharmaceutical companies—especially based on alleged Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) violations—continues to change, with the ...

A long-term care therapy provider has agreed to pay $315,000 to resolve allegations of causing the submission of false claims to Medicare at nursing facilities in Massachusetts.