U.S. Intervenes in Fraud Case Against Delaware Imaging Center

The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act case against an imaging center in Delaware whose staff allegedly injected contrast dye in patients without physician supervision (United States ex rel. White v. Orthopaedic and Neuro Imaging LLC, D. Del., No. 13-cv-1109, 9/26/17).

The complaint alleged that Orthopaedic and Neuro Imaging LLC (ONI) and the company’s owner, Richard Pfarr, knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by allowing staff to administer contrast dye during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans without general supervision by a physician.

Initially filed in 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the District ...