ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospital and Nursing Home Accountability Government Agency Wants Inspection Results Publicized In a groundbreaking announcement, federal authorities are pushing to have details of hospital and nursing home inspections made public. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed that the results of private inspections of medical […]

The False Claims Act (FCA) is a federal law that imposes liability on federal contractors who defraud governmental programs. The Government is usually the most appropriate to act against fraud, but the FCA includes a qui tam provision that allows people, called the relators or whistleblower, to file actions on […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare fraud is often a fairly technical area of law: large companies misusing funds, fraudulently billing Medicare or Medi-Cal, or improperly treating patients not in need of expensive procedures. Cases often revolve around class disputes, the finer points of qui tam law and the false claims act, or […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Consumer Watchdog reports that doctors across the country are committing Medicare fraud by ordering medical tests for senior citizens that are unwarranted. Senior citizens, who are the age group least likely to be addicted to illegal drugs, are being tested by their doctors for drugs, such as ecstasy, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In 2010, a whistleblower came forth with information showing Extendicare Health Services Inc., a nursing home chain, was defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by charging patients for below-average care. Now, the nursing home chain will be paying $38 million to settle the failure-of-care claims – the largest amount ever […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER When people hear the term “whistleblower,” they might associate it with large financial rewards and exposing companies committing financial fraud. This isn’t wrong.  However, there is a side to whistleblowing that is just, if not even more important, than exposing financial fraud.  Especially in whistleblower lawsuits against hospitals […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If you are a victim of non-payment of a primary payment or reimbursement by a primary plan employer or carrier, you can file a private action against them for damages. Not only do they have to pay, they have to pay twice that amount.  On August 28, 2014, […]

By The Evans Law Firm of The Evans Law Firm on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. -ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER- Inflating the price of services and equipment to Medicare or overbilling is an unfortunate reality facing the government. This activity results from a variety of sources including for-profit nursing homes, which comprises of […]

By The Evans Law Firm of The Evans Law Firm posted in elder abuse on Monday, May 20, 2013. -ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER- California’s low-income seniors are both eligible for both Medicare and MediCal. Governor Brown’s health reform estimates to reduce approximately a half-billion dollars from the state’s budget for healthcare by […]

By The Evans Law Firm of The Evans Law Firm posted in medicare on Thursday, March 14, 2013. -Attorney Newsletter- The cost of an extended stay in a hospital or nursing home may be difficult to bear, particularly for an elderly person who has limited financial resources. Although Medicare should […]