Category: Healthcare Violations

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Whistleblowers Reporting Healthcare Fraud Unnecessary, Unsupervised and Unaccredited Practices When the government pays for medical services through Medicare, Medicaid or other programs, the provider is bound by government rules related to those services. The government is defrauded when the provider breaks those rules but charges the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Charging The Government For Unnecessary Medical Tests Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Health care providers defraud the government when they submit bills under Medicare, Medicaid and other government-backed programs for unnecessary medical tests and procedures. Private citizens who bring such fraud to light are rewarded under the False […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Illegal Kickbacks For Prescribing Medical Devices Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Kickbacks for medical referrals or prescription of medical devices violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, and, when the government is paying for the services, the False Claims Act. 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b (Anti-Kickback Statute); 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fraudulent Billing And Illegal Kickbacks For Medicine Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle Healthcare fraud is the largest kind of fraud perpetrated against the government year in and year out. Wrongdoers include pharmaceutical companies, compounding pharmacies, hospitals and nursing homes, physician groups, clinical laboratories, device manufacturers and others. Private […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 2019: Government Recovers Over $2.1 Billion in False Claims Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers Rewarded $ 265 Million DOJ Shares Priorities For 2020 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Inappropriate Hospice Certifications Possible Fraud Four Former Employees Blow Whistle Healthcare fraud against the government includes kickbacks, false billing, upcoding, sales of unapproved drugs, illegal referrals and kickbacks, and inappropriate certifications for services like hospice care. Individuals can bring whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act (also known […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Billing for Unnecessary Procedures Former Employees Blow Whistle on Nursing Home Chain The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that a large nursing home chain will pay $15.5 million to settle allegations brought against it by a group of whistleblowers under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Kickbacks, Overcharging, And Other Healthcare Fraud Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle The FBI estimates that fraud under the federal government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs amounts to $75 billion to $250 billion every year. Each year, individual whistleblowers help the government recoup billions under the False Claims Act (FCA). […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Rewards Blowing The Whistle On Healthcare Fraud Whistleblower Cases Under The False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute Under the False Claims Act (FCA), the federal government rewards whistleblowers who present credible information of false claims made to government agencies for payments and reimbursements. The fraud may violate […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Billing, Overcharging, Upcoding And Other Healthcare Fraud Whistleblowers Rewarded For Blowing Whistle The FBI estimates that fraud under the federal government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs amounts to $75 billion to $250 billion every year. Each year, individual whistleblowers help the government recoup billions under the False Claims […]