Kentucky Hospital to Pay over $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

DOJ

Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare Inc., doing business as Pharmacy Plus and Pharmacy Plus Specialty (collectively, Jewish Hospital), of Louisville, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $10,101,132 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice has announced.

The settlement resolves allegations originally brought in a lawsuit filed by Robert Stone, a pharmacist, under the whistleblower or qui tam provision of the False Claims Act, which allows private parties to bring suit on behalf of the government and to share in any recovery.  Mr. Stone will receive $1.85 million. read more »

Whistleblower Tips to SEC Top 5,200 in FY 2019

CFO MAGAZINE

“The whistleblower program continues to have a significant positive impact on the commission’s enforcement efforts and protection of investors and markets."

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program received the second-highest number of tips in its history in fiscal 2019 as it passed the $2 billion mark for sanctions in enforcement matters resulting from tips. read more »

DoorDash sued over deceptive tipping policy

SILICON ANGLE

San Francisco-based delivery outfit DoorDash Inc. was sued on Tuesday by Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine for deceptive practices regarding its tipping policy.

The complaint, lodged at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, accuses the company of the deceptive practices from July 2017 to September 2019.

Earlier this year, DoorDash changed its tipping policy after it was discovered that workers were coming up short on tips. After the change, the company said, “Dashers” would get every cent of the tip given. Nonetheless, Racine is now seeking millions on lost tip money, stating no drivers had been compensated.

“DoorDash misled consumers to believe that they were using DoorDash’s online delivery service to tip the company’s workers who delivered their food,” said the complaint. “Instead, the ‘tip’ largely went to subsidize DoorDash’s agreed payment to the worker and almost never served to increase that payment amount.” read more »