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Health Care
Grande Law Offices has actively worked to improve the quality of health care delivered to our citizens, particularly seniors and the poor. Cases aimed at improving the quality of health care delivered to our citizens comprise an important part of Grande Law Offices's commitment to litigating cases which have important social effects. In conjunction with his qui tam practice, partner Thomas Grande has litigated several important cases which attempt to ensure that appropriate health care is delivered to our citizens.
Some of our health care cases have included: • Settlement of a case which stopped a local doctor from fraudulent selling generic drugs to Medicaid patients, but charging the government for brand name rates. • Litigating a case against Kaiser Hospitals in California to stop Kaiser's practice of dispensing double dose pills and a pill splitter to its patients. • Representing an anesthesiologist who refused to bill the government and supervise nurse practitioners while she was on-call and off the hospital grounds. $2.5 Million Recovered in Queens Whistleblower Case
Thomas Grande and co-counsel Warren Price of Price Okamoto Himeno & Lum recovered $2.5 million in a qui tam case filed on behalf of two pharmacy technicians at The Queens Hospital in Honolulu.
The case alleged that Queens filed fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims by allowing residents to perform unsupervised medical procedures and allowing medications to be prescribed without the authorization of a supervising physician.
"This case ensures that hospitals and doctors will follow public health insurance guidelines for the elderly who are served by Medicare and the poor who are served by Medicaid," said Mr. Grande. "These guidelines ensure that quality and appropriate medical treatment is given to all of our citizens, especially those who are most vulnerable in our population," he said.
The lawsuit was filed under the federal False Claims Act and Hawaii False Claims Act and was settled with the assistance of the United States Attorneys Office and state Medicaid fraud unit.
Edward H. Kubo, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, praised the two whistleblowers for their courage in coming forward with the case.
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