Team Rehab to Pay $5 Million Over Fraudulent Billing Allegations in Michigan
Medical FraudBy Ruth Anselmi
Team Rehab Physical Therapy agreed to pay $5 million to the DOJ to settle claims of fraudulent billing against federal healthcare programs.
Ruth trained as a pharmacist and then spent a decade watching the gap between clinical trial data and real-world outcomes grow wider every year. She left the industry after a whistleblower case she had quietly supported was settled out of court under a non-disclosure agreement. Her reporting cuts through press releases and FDA approval language to ask the questions that should have been asked before the drug reached the shelf.
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Medical FraudBy Ruth Anselmi
Team Rehab Physical Therapy agreed to pay $5 million to the DOJ to settle claims of fraudulent billing against federal healthcare programs.
By Ruth Anselmi
Sophia Shaklian was sentenced to nearly 3 years in federal prison for defrauding Medicare through a fake hospice and diagnostic testing scheme.
By Ruth Anselmi
The CEO and owners of a pharmaceutical wholesaler were sentenced to decades in prison for running a $92 million black-market HIV drug ring.
By Ruth Anselmi
Aetna agreed to pay $117.7 million to settle False Claims Act violations after allegedly inflating patient risk scores to boost federal payments.

By Ruth Anselmi
A Texas DME company owner was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for running a $59 million Medicare kickback scheme.
By Ruth Anselmi
A Pakistani national was arrested at LAX while fleeing the country after allegedly billing Medicare $46 million for lab tests never performed.
By Ruth Anselmi
The Supreme Court cleared the way for a $7 billion RICO suit alleging Takeda and Eli Lilly hid cancer risks from patients and regulators.
By Ruth Anselmi
Dr. Grinshteyn pleaded guilty to approving thousands of unnecessary genetic tests and equipment orders through a fraudulent telemedicine network.
By Ruth Anselmi
The Ninth Circuit revived a qui tam lawsuit claiming AbbVie and AstraZeneca systematically overcharged public health programs for life-saving drugs.