bac Brooklyn Resident Pleads Guilty in Connection with $13 Million Kickback and Health Care Fraud Scheme By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:11:56 EDT A Brooklyn, N.Y., resident pleaded guilty today for his role as a patient recruiter in a $13 million kickback and health care fraud scheme, the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the scheme based at the Cropsey Medical Care PLLC clinic in Brooklyn. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Attorney General Holder and President Obama Welcome Employees Back to Work By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:05:06 EDT The following message from the Attorney General was emailed to Justice Department employees on October 17, 2013. Full Article Speech
bac US Government Intervenes in False Claims Lawsuit Against United States Investigations Services for Failing to Perform Required Quality Reviews of Background Investigations By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:09:07 EDT The government has intervened in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act against United States Investigations Services LLC (USIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, alleging that USIS, located in Falls Church, Va., failed to perform quality control reviews in connection with its background investigations for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Ohio Lobbyist Pleads Guilty for Role in Kickback and Money Laundering Scheme By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:40:04 EST An Ohio attorney and lobbyist pleaded guilty today for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Former Ohio Deputy Treasurer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Kickback and Money Laundering Scheme By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:33:35 EST The former Ohio deputy treasurer pleaded guilty today for his role in leading a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Abbott Laboratories Pays U.S. $5.475 Million to Settle Claims That Company Paid Kickbacks to Physicians By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 17:07:51 EST Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce doctors to implant the company’s carotid, biliary and peripheral vascular products, the Justice Department announced today. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Department of Justice Takes Steps to Strengthen Federal Background Check System for Firearms Transfers By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:48:39 EST The Department of Justice today announced it is proposing a regulation that will clarify who, due to mental health reasons, is prohibited under federal law from receiving, possessing, shipping or transporting firearms. In addition to providing general guidance on the federal law, this clarification will help states determine what information may be appropriately shared with the federal background check system for firearms transfers – the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) – in order to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who may be a danger to themselves or others. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac CareFusion to Pay the Government $40.1 Million to Resolve Allegations That Include More Than $11 Million in Kickbacks to One Doctor By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:19:42 EST CareFusion Corp. has agreed to pay the government $40.1 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks and promoting its products for uses that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Government Intervenes in Lawsuits Against Health Management Associates Inc. Hospital Chain Alleging Unnecessary Inpatient Admissions and Payment of Kickbacks By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:56:21 EST The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians in exchange for patient referrals. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac United States Government Sues Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. and Two Foreign Companies for Kickbacks and False Claims Relating to Iraq Support Services Contract By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:24:38 EST The government has filed a complaint against Kellogg, Brown &s contract with the Army to provide logistical support in Iraq. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Government Intervenes in Lawsuit Against Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Georgia Hospital Owned by Health Management Associates Inc. Alleging Payment of Kickbacks By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:07:49 EST The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Tenet) and four of its hospitals in Georgia and South Carolina, as well as a hospital in Monroe, Ga., owned by Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA), alleging that the hospitals paid kickbacks to obstetric clinics serving primarily undocumented Hispanic women in return for referral of those patients for labor and delivery at the hospitals. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Omnicare to Pay Government $4.19 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Kickbacks By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:09:06 EST Omnicare Inc., an Ohio-based long-term care pharmacy, has agreed to pay the government $4.19 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the False Claims Act. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Massapequa, N.Y., Man Pleads Guilty to Rolling Back Odometers in Scheme That Defrauded Dozens of Car Buyers By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:48:09 EDT A Massapequa, N.Y., man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Allentown, Pa., to conspiracy to commit odometer tampering. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Former Chief Executive Officer of Oil Services Company Indicted in New Jersey on Foreign Bribery and Kickback Charges By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 9 May 2014 15:20:31 EDT The former co-chief executive officer (CEO) of PetroTiger Ltd. – a British Virgin Islands oil and gas company with operations in Colombia and offices in New Jersey – was indicted today for his role in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to defraud PetroTiger. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac King’s Daughters Medical Center to Pay Nearly $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Billing for Unnecessary Cardiac Procedures and Kickbacks By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 28 May 2014 09:30:07 EDT Ashland Hospital Corp. d/b/a King’s Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) has agreed to pay $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary coronary stents and diagnostic catheterizations. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Minnesota-Based Medtronic Inc. to Pay $9.9 Million to Resolve Claims That Company Paid Kickbacks to Physicians By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:48:42 EDT Medtronic Inc., of Fridley, Minnesota, has agreed to pay the United States $9.9 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company used various types of payments to induce physicians to implant pacemakers and defibrillators manufactured and sold by Medtronic. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Government Files Suit Against Missouri Neurosurgeon and Medical Device Supplier for Violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:06:16 EDT The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a complaint against Midwest Neurosurgeons L.L.C. and its owner, Dr. Sanjay Fonn, M.D., and DS Medical L.L.C. and its owner, Deborah Seeger, for allegedly violating the Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by conspiring to solicit and receive commissions from medical device manufacturers related to the purchase of spinal implants and supplies used during spinal fusion surgeries performed by Dr. Fonn Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Former Employee of a U.S. Construction Company Working in Afghanistan Pleads Guilty to Receiving Illegal Kickback By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:39:33 EDT A former project manager of a U.S. construction company working on U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan who solicited a $60,000 kickback from an Afghan subcontractor pleaded guilty today in federal court in Tucson, Arizona Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Manufacturer of Spinal Devices and Surgeon to Pay United States $2.6 Million to Settle Alleged Kickback Scheme By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:17:36 EDT Omni Surgical L.P., doing business as Spine 360, a manufacturer of devices used in spinal surgery, and Dr. Jamie Gottlieb, an Indiana spinal surgeon, have agreed to pay $2.6 million to the United States to settle allegations that Spine 360 paid illegal kickbacks to Gottlieb to induce him to use the company’s products. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Attorney General Holder Announces New Drug Take-Back Effort to Help Tackle Rising Threat of Prescription Drug Addiction and Opioid Abuse By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 10:33:26 EDT Calling prescription drug addiction an “urgent and growing threat” to our nation’s public health, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday announced a new Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA) regulation that would allow pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and other authorized collectors to serve as authorized drop-off sites for unused prescription drugs. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac United States Pursues Claims Against Neurosurgeon, Spinal Implant Company, Physician-Owned Distributorships and Their Non-Physician Owners for Alleged Kickbacks and Medically Unnecessary Surgeries By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:26:47 EDT The United States has filed two complaints under the False Claims Act against Michigan neurosurgeon Dr. Aria Sabit, spinal implant company Reliance Medical Systems, two Reliance distributorships—Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies—and the companies’ owners, Brett Berry, John Hoffman and Adam Pike. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Two Men, Including Former Car Salesman at Prominent Los Angeles Dealership, Charged with Conspiring to Roll Back Odometers in Large-Scale Scheme That Defrauded Car Buyers By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:08:21 EDT A former salesman at a prominent Los Angeles car dealership and another Southern California man were charged with odometer tampering, the Justice Department announced today. Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Morgan Stanley Agrees to Pay $2.6 Billion Penalty in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:56:23 EST The Justice Department today announced that Morgan Stanley will pay a $2 Full Article OPA Press Releases
bac Booming VC-Backed Biopharma: Strong Market Despite Pandemic By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:56:53 +0000 Venture capital is a long investment cycle business, and never before has that been so clear as now in the face of the ongoing COVID pandemic. Even with the unprecedented public equity market volatility, venture investing into private biopharma companies The post Booming VC-Backed Biopharma: Strong Market Despite Pandemic appeared first on LifeSciVC. Full Article Biotech financing Business Development Fundraising Biotech Biotech startups Biotech venture capital biotech venture funding Venture Capital
bac ABAC Release: Achieving Integration and Inclusion in the Age of Disruption By www.apec.org Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:50:00 +0800 Business leaders from around the Asia-Pacific met in Sydney last week to discuss the year ahead Full Article
bac Nursing home pharmacy to pay $476K settlement to Mass. after kickback charges By www.bizjournals.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:27:51 +0000 The nation’s largest pharmacy serving elder care facilities will pay Massachusetts nearly half a million dollars to settle allegations that it got kickbacks more than eight years ago from Abbott Laboratories to promote the anti-seizure drug, Depakote. The settlement was signed by Omnicare, a pharmacy services company that was acquired by CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) in August 2015. The $476,216 payment to Massachusetts is part of a $28 million multi-state settlement that included 47 states… Full Article
bac Looking Forward/Looking Backward – Day 1 Notes from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:40:59 +0000 A large amount of wind, much discussion about the U.S healthcare, and the public getting soaked again – if you were thinking about Washington, DC and the new Congress, you’re 3,000 miles away from the action. This is the week of the annual JP Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco, with many thousands of healthcare...… Continue Reading Full Article Medicaid Medicare ASC health plan Medicare Advantage population health management Telehealth
bac Unemployment hits 14.7% in April. How long before 20.5 million lost jobs come back? By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 06:00:01 -0400 Analysts say steep jump in unemployment and layoffs caused by the pandemic will be hard to reverse quickly. Full Article
bac 'Chinese virus' and other COVID-19 racism have designers, stylists of Asian heritage pushing back By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:20:44 -0400 Enough is enough, says a growing number of creatives from the fashion industry, including designer Kimora Lee Simmons, stylist Jeanne Yang and designer Prabal Gurung. Full Article
bac 'It's not what this town is about': Seal Beach's Main Street struggles to come back By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:48:21 -0400 It is an "eerie" day in Seal Beach as businesses struggle to come back and crowds stay away. Full Article
bac Malaysia factories spring back to life for Japanese electronics By asia.nikkei.com Published On :: Full Article
bac Bacterial physiology: Another brick in the wall By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2012-06-06 Full Article
bac India: Sequoia-backed travel firm Flynote lays off staff amid virus crisis By www.dealstreetasia.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 08:45:59 +0000 Flynote has only ₹2 crore left in the banks of the ₹14 crore raised last year. The post India: Sequoia-backed travel firm Flynote lays off staff amid virus crisis appeared first on DealStreetAsia. Full Article Flynote Sequoia Capital
bac SG Digest: Trendlines invests in Insectta; d:tribe Capital backs Australian AI startup By www.dealstreetasia.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 07:17:38 +0000 The Trendlines Group has invested in early-stage startup Insectta, headquartered in the city-state. The post SG Digest: Trendlines invests in Insectta; d:tribe Capital backs Australian AI startup appeared first on DealStreetAsia. Full Article d:Tribe Capital Insectta Shelfie Trendlines Group
bac Tencent-backed Chinese AI startup Enflame raises nearly $100m Series B funding By www.dealstreetasia.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 04:05:56 +0000 Tencent, which first invested in Enflame's pre-Series A round in July 2018, also topped up. The post Tencent-backed Chinese AI startup Enflame raises nearly $100m Series B funding appeared first on DealStreetAsia. Full Article Enflame Technology SummitView Capital
bac Larger bacterial populations evolve heavier fitness trade-offs and undergo greater ecological specialization By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-03-18 Full Article
bac Back in Time By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2018-10-16 Astronomers have found some of the most distant galaxies in the universe, opening a window on a previously unknown period of cosmic history Full Article
bac Cyanobacterial in vivo solar hydrogen production using a photosystem I–hydrogenase (PsaD-HoxYH) fusion complex By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-05-04 Full Article
bac Author Correction: A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-05-04 Full Article
bac Author Correction: Genetic circuit design automation for the gut resident species <i>Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron</i> By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-05-07 Full Article
bac Microbiota and colorectal cancer: colibactin makes its mark By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-21 Full Article
bac Listening to the sound of a bacterium By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-27 Full Article
bac Author Correction: Vitamin lipid nanoparticles enable adoptive macrophage transfer for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial sepsis By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-28 Full Article
bac Publisher Correction: Optomechanical detection of vibration modes of a single bacterium By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-29 Full Article
bac From Indo-Pak to Chindia and Back Again to Indo-Pak, Hindustan Times By ramachandraguha.in Published On :: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:22:47 +0000 On 26th January 2006, the New York Times ran a story headlined ‘India Everywhere in the Alps’. The story began: ‘Delhi swept into Davos on Wednesday, with an extravagant public relations campaign by India intended to promote the country as the world's next economic superstar, and as a democratic alternative to China for the affections [...] Full Article Politics and Current Affairs Citizens Amendment Act democracy pluralism secularism
bac ZBP1 (DAI/DLM-1) promotes osteogenic differentiation while inhibiting adipogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells through a positive feedback loop of Wnt/β-catenin signaling By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-03-05 Full Article
bac Educar para la transparencia y una ciudadanía informada: diseño, aplicación y evaluación del programa IRIS para alumnado de Bachillerato de la Región de Murcia (España) By eprints.rclis.org Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 08:44:02 +0200 Campillo-Meseguer, María-José and Galiano-Martínez, Antonio and Gómez-Hernández, José-Antonio and Hidalgo-Pérez, Antonio and López Aniorte, María-del-Carmen and Martínez-Navarro, Emilio and Molina-Molina, José and Mayor-Balsas, José-Manuel and Ros-Media, José Luis and Oliva-Palazón, Elena and Reverte-Martínez, Francisco-Manuel and Baeza-Hernández, María-José . Educar para la transparencia y una ciudadanía informada: diseño, aplicación y evaluación del programa IRIS para alumnado de Bachillerato de la Región de Murcia (España)., 2020 In: Competencias en Información y Políticas para Educación Superior: Estudios Hispano-Brasileños, volumen 1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, pp. 123-138. [Book chapter] Full Article
bac Stepping Back from the Brink on Iran By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Jan 8, 2020 Jan 8, 2020Neither the United States nor Iran wants to go to war. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in the fog of crisis — similar in many ways to the fog of war — the danger of inadvertently stumbling into war is dangerously high. Full Article