Category: Whistleblower

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Taxpayer First Act Helps Whistleblowers New Privacy Safeguards, Quicker Response Time, and Protections Against Retaliation The House and Senate acted this month to strengthen the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Whistleblower Program and help whistleblowers who bring forth evidence of taxpayer fraud. The Taxpayer First Act (TFA), which the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Against the Federal Government Private Whistleblowers May Have Up To Ten Years To Report Fraud The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that private persons in some situations may have up to 10 years from an alleged fraud against the government to file a whistleblower (also known […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Rewards Whistleblowers Over $312 Million in IRS Whistleblower Rewards Paid Out in 2018 IRS Targets Offshore Tax Avoidance 2018 was a banner year for the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Whistleblower Program. During the year, the IRS made 217 awards to whistleblowers totaling over $312 million, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Internal Revenue Service Rewards Whistleblowers Whistleblower Award Base Increases Foreign Bank Account Reporting Requirements Tax season is here, the government has re-opened, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is back to business. IRS business includes catching tax fraud and whistleblowers play a major role in enforcement and receive […]

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 False Claims Act Cases for Overcharging Government Settles Large Whistleblower Suit Against Compounding Pharmacy Whistleblower Rewarded Healthcare fraud against Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health care programs amounts to billions of dollars every year. Overcharging for drugs and procedures is a major type of this fraud.  Whistleblowers bring […]

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 Large Whistleblower Settlement For Illegal Upcoding False claims for inflated Medicare reimbursements (sometimes in the form of “upcoding”) are a common fraud against the government. Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers initiate the majority of recovery actions against companies for submitting such inflated claims. The California and San Francisco […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Massive Whistleblower Settlement Against Drug Company Healthcare fraud costs this country over $68 billion annually and part of that fraud is government payment for unapproved, substandard medications sold by drug manufacturers. The Department of Justice (DOJ) just settled a massive whistleblower suit against one drug company that repackaged […]