Category: Healthcare Industry

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Announces $48 Million Settlement In Healthcare Fraud Case Former Employees Blew The Whistle On The Fraud Whistleblowers Rewarded $12.4 Million The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported earlier this month that Encompass Health Corporation, formerly known as HealthSouth Corporation, has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases Against Healthcare Industry Big Cases and Big Rewards Under the False Claims Act (FCA), the federal government rewards whistleblowers who present credible, original information of false claims made to government agencies for payments and reimbursements. The cases are known as qui tam cases and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Americans Increasingly At Risk Contaminants In Foreign-Sourced Ingredients There is a new reality in where our medications come from — a growing reliance on foreign manufacturers to provide the raw ingredients for those drugs. According to FDA data, roughly 85 percent of the facilities manufacturing the ingredients in […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare Fraud on the Government Whistleblowers Lead the Way in Recoveries Outlook for 2019 In 2018, the volume of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation remained high, and health care-related qui tam (i.e., whistleblower) cases continued to lead the way.  Data from 2018 suggests that pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and home health […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers Bring Most Healthcare False Claims Act Cases Large Whistleblower Awards Healthcare fraud against Medicare and Medicaid amounts to billions of dollars every year. Whistleblowers bring most of the recovery actions when it comes to healthcare fraud against the government and the government rewards them when there is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare Fraud on the Government The Three Pillars of Government Enforcement and Prevention Whistleblowers Rewarded Healthcare fraud against Medicare and other government health care programs amounts to billions of dollars every year. Whistleblowers initiate the majority of enforcement and recovery actions and typically bring their cases under three […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Important False Claims Act Case for Sales of Defective Drugs Will the Department of Justice Put Public Health and Safety at Risk? Last year, the Ninth Circuit reinstated all claims of a whistleblower (also called a “relator”) brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) against the large […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases For Kickbacks and Falsifying Records Two Large Whistleblower Settlements Awards in whistleblower cases brought for false claims against the government can be very substantial. Last week, the government announced two settlements in false claim whistleblower cases with rewards for the whistleblowers, discussed below, that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases Against Healthcare Industry Healthcare fraud costs the nation an estimated $68 billion annually. False claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid are a big part of that fraud.  The government can sue to recover under the federal False Claims Act and whistleblowers initiate most of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases Against Healthcare Industry Government Whistleblower Awards Increasing Whistleblowers initiate over 80% of all healthcare fraud cases brought under the False Claims Act in this country. Historically, the government has recovered over $30 billion in these actions and paid out close to $5 billion in […]