![]() The settlement requires that SNAP pay $3.5 million, Raviv pay $300,000, and Burton pay $125,000 for a total settlement amount of $3.925 million. Other allegations against SNAP include the unnecessary and unlawful multiplication of the copays of federal health care beneficiaries including senior citizens on Medicare. SNAP intentionally allowed physicians to fraudulently bill for this service as a way of increasing referrals and driving the volume of SNAP’s business. This allowed providers to “keep” the billing for the professional component of home sleep testing services. ![]() Second, after its sleep testing was performed, SNAP personnel allegedly interpreted the results and gave unsigned reports to referring physicians who in turn would bill as if the physicians had performed the professional service of interpreting the results themselves. First, SNAP purportedly paid commissions and bonuses to its sales force for selling multi-night testing to providers, and it gave free home sleep tests to physicians and their families to induce referrals. In addition, the government alleged that SNAP’s business model relied on multiple unlawful kickback schemes. In particular, Raviv allegedly instructed SNAP to submit claims for patients’ second and third nights of home sleep testing when the company knew they were medically unnecessary because only a single night of testing was needed to effectively diagnose certain sleep disorders. Since Medicare began covering home sleep testing in 2009, SNAP has received nearly $9 million from Medicare – almost all of it the result of fraud and kickbacks, according to the government’s allegations.Īs alleged by the government, SNAP, its founder Gil Raviv, and its vice president Stephen Burton violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute through various fraudulent billing practices. The suits alleged that a suburban Chicago diagnostics company, SNAP Diagnostics, LLC, that provides home testing for sleep disorders was defrauding Medicare and four other federal health care programs through kickbacks and unnecessary testing. Signed by the Honorable Ruben Castillo on : Mailed notice.The Department of Justice recently announced that it resolved two civil lawsuits filed under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act to the tune of nearly $4 million. (For Further Details See Attached Order). IT APPEARING THAT as a result of the partial federal government shutdown, this Court amended General Order 18-0028 suspending as of December 21, 2018, all civil litigation in which the United States of America, its agencies, its officers, or employees were parties, with the stated intention of clarifying schedules in such cases upon the expiration of the lapse in appropriations and IT FURTHER APPEARING THAT appropriations having been restored to fund the Department of Justice and other Executive Branch agencies, with employees beginning to report for work beginning on Januaccordingly IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the stay entered by General Order 18-0028 is hereby lifted, and any and all deadlines in the affected civil litigation (whether established by order, rule, or agreement.), including but not limited to any scheduled discovery and pleading dates, are extended by 42 days. GENERAL ORDER 19-0004: RESETTING OF DEADLINES IN CIVIL MATTERS INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES AS A PARTY. Honorable Ruben Castillo no longer assigned to the case. Case reassigned to the Honorable Charles R. and It is further ordered that Magistrate Judge Valdez will be the designated magistrate judge in 15 C 6204, Doe et al., v. Snap Diagnostics, LLC et al., to the Hon. Maria Valdez therefore, It is hereby ordered that the Clerk is directed to reassign 15 C 6204, Doe et al., v. and the designated magistrate judge is the Hon. Snap Diagnostics LLC et al., was reassigned to the Hon. Snap Diagnostics, LLC et al., are granted and the cases shall be consolidated for all purposes and should be presided over by a single district judge and a designated magistrate judge for these cases and It further appearing that 14 C 3988, Piacentile et al., v. ![]() Snap Diagnostics LLC et al., and 15 C 6204, Doe et al., v. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORDER: It appearing that, for reasons of judicial efficiency, the motions to consolidate filed in 14 C 3988, Piacentile et al., v.
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