Sallet, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and Jeffrey S. 18, 2017, the government notified the Court that it was intervening in two separate lawsuits, each initially filed under seal by a private citizen pursuant to the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act. The government’s complaint was filed Monday in U.S. SNAP’s business model also relied on several unlawful kickback schemes, which incentivized physicians and their staffs to refer all of their home sleep testing services to SNAP, the suit alleges. The suit alleges that Raviv directed SNAP to submit claims for Medicare recipients’ second and third nights of home sleep testing when, in fact, the company knew that only a single night of testing was needed to effectively diagnose obstructive sleep apnea and it routinely tested and claimed only the one night for non-Medicare beneficiaries. The suit alleges that SNAP DIAGNOSTICS LLC, its founder, GIL RAVIV, and its marketing vice president, STEPHEN BURTON, violated the federal False Claims Act by fraudulently billing Medicare for medically unnecessary services and for services that were occasioned by kickbacks. CHICAGO - The United States has filed a civil lawsuit accusing a north suburban diagnostics company of defrauding Medicare out of millions of dollars through kickbacks and unnecessary home sleep testing.
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