A federal judge has awarded $600,000 in attorney fees and costs to a group of whistleblowers following their settlement with one of two defendants in a qui tam suit in Erie.
Four doctors had brought the action in 2004 under the False Claims Act against Bradford Regional Medical Center and V & S Medical Associates with allegations that an equipment sublease between the two had violated anti-kickback laws and that they had run afoul of a ban on physician self-referrals, resulting in submissions for fraudulent reimbursement from the U.S. government, according to the opinion granting the relators’ motion requesting attorney fees.
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