Can
We Trust The Health Care Companies?
SUUUUUUUURE We Can.
 The
following is a list of the 20 largest cases of health care
fraud, and their associated fines, in the U.S. These are
just snaphots. You can get full details here.
(1) Tenet Healthcare - 2006 - $900,000,000 for billing violations.
(2) HCA - 2000 - $731,400,000 - Unlawful billing practices.
(3) HCA - 2003 - $631,000,000 -
False claims.(Eventually, $1.7 billion.)
(4) Serono - 2005 - $567,000,000 - Fraud. Plus $137 million more for a related
fine.
(5) Taketa-Abbott Pharmaceutical - 2001 - $560,000,000. Fraudulent drug pricing.
(6) Abbott Labs - 2003 - $400,000,000 - Defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.
(7) Fresnius Medical Care - 2000 - $385,000,000 - Fraud.
(8) SmithCline Beecham - 1997 - $325,000,000 - Filing false claims.
(9) HealthSouth - 2004 - $320,000,000 - Defrauding Medicare.
(10) Gambro Healthcare - 20004 - $310,000,000 - Falls statements, kickbacks.
(11) Schering-Plough - 2004 - $292,000,000 - Drug pricing fraud.
(12)
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals - 2003 - $266,000,000 - Health care fraud.
(13)
St. Barnabas Hospitals - 2006 - $265,000,000 - "Outlier" fraud.
(14) Bayer Corporation - 2003 - $258,000,000 - Violation of the False Claims
Act.
(15)
Schering-Plough - 2006 - $255,000,000 - Flase Claims Act.
(16)
First american Health Care of Georgia - 1996 - Medicare fraud.
(17) BankAmerica - 1998 - $188,000,000 - Flase Claims Act.
(18) Laboratory corporation of America - 1996 - $182,000,000
- False test claims.
(19) Beverly Enterprises - 2000 - $170,000,000 - Medicare
fraud.
(20) Medco Health Solutions - 2006 - $163,000,000 (Tentative)
- Medicare fraud.
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IMPORTANT: Health insurance companies are paying bands of
hooligans to attend town hall events on health care around
the country,
specifically to disrupt the process. You can fight back by
attending these
forums yourself. For a comprehensive list of when
and where go
here and wait for the list to load on the right
hand side. See you there!
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