Category: Bay Area

A Pill That Is Tough To Stomach: Healthcare Fraud Health Care Fraud In a recent year, the country spent $2.27 trillion on healthcare. In that same year, more than four billion health care claims were filed to insurance companies, some of which were, as expected, fraudulent. And while the sheer […]

Caregiver Abuse Rising As Boomers Become Seniors Caregiving With our largest generation of individuals now reaching the age of “senior,” elderly care will become a very important professional niche. Currently there are somewhere around 44 million individuals assisting and/or giving care to a senior today. And that number will grow […]

Nursing Home Abuse Can Come From Unlikely Sources Nursing Home Abuse When we think of nursing home abuse, we often think of abuse by nurses, staff members, or individuals of the like. However, new studies are exploring the prevalence of abuse of residents by other residents, and the numbers may […]

IRS Whistleblowing on Abusive Offshore Schemes Awards for Helping the IRS Catch Tax Cheats The highest whistleblower award in US history was paid to an individual with original information of a massive offshore tax fraud. A former employee of the Swiss bank UBS received $104 million for unveiling the bank’s […]

Friends Or Foes: Studies In Financial Elder Abuse May Show Fluidity Financial Elder Abuse Studies are showing that just around 1 in 5 elders from San Francisco County and beyond are losing funds due to financial elder abuse, a crime that is seemingly running rampant across the country. One recent […]

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Online Help The SEC wants to help the individual investor. Really. In fact, for years the SEC has had an enormous investor outreach initiative to educate and protect folks from fraud. There’s a macro interest: educated investors stabilize markets; they are less prone to unwarranted […]

Blowing The Whistle On Medicare Fraud Whistleblowing Recently, in the news and elsewhere, whistleblowing has become a hot topic of discussion. Most recently, whistleblowing has also drawn attention due to the awards given out by organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet, healthcare and […]

California Assembly Looks At Long Term Care The California State Assembly has introduced hundreds of new bills at the end of its Winter Term. A number of those bills address long-term care and elder abuse. We’d like to bring the bills concerning long term care to your attention and we […]

Imposter Scams Now America’s #1 Fraud Imposter Fraud Targets Elderly Imposter scams have become the leading fraud in America. The Federal Trade Commission tallies up the number and type of consumer fraud complaints and reported more than 3 million claims of imposter schemes in 2016 alone! And the financial toll […]

Department of Justice Rewards Medicare Whistleblower Physician Gets Large Whistleblower Award Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded a physician over $11 million as an award for original information the doctor provided about large-scale Medicare fraud. Specifically, the whistleblower’s information led to a lengthy DOJ investigation that recouped $60 million […]