Category: medicare fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Stark Law Violations Alleged Government Alleges Illegal Downstream Referrals Former Chief Financial Officer Blew Whistle Private citizens help the government recover billions of dollars every year in cases of fraud against the government.  The cases are brought in federal courts throughout the country under the False Claims Act, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two Patients Blow Whistle Alleged Financial Inducements Realtors Will Share $5.6 Million Reward In Fiscal Year 2022, private citizens helped the government recover $1.9 billion in cases of fraud against the government.  The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., allows individuals with knowledge of fraud against […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Hospice Care Is Now A Huge For-Profit Industry False Certifications To Inflate Profits Lack Of Regulatory Oversight Hospice care is end of life care where patients are certified by a physician with less than six months to live and forgo any curative treatment.  Today, half of all Americans […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Enrolled Ineligible Seniors Into Hospice Programs Payments For Non-Terminally Ill Patients How Hospice Fraud Constitutes Elder Abuse Healthcare fraud against government programs like Medicare costs taxpayers billions every year.  When medical service providers like hospice agencies admit ineligible patients into programs where the government is paying the bills, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations Of Kickbacks To Physicians For Drug Purchases Allegedly Paid Cash Bonuses To Physicians Realtors Will Share $2.6 Million Reward Kickbacks paid by drug manufacturers or distributors and pharmacies to physicians for prescribing drugs are against the law.  Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b. When the drugs are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Largest Total Since 2014 Health Care Fraud Is Leading Source Of Judgments And Recoveries 598 Qui Tam Suits Filed In 2021 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Misrepresentations Regarding Prescription Shoes Government Alleges Five Years Of False Claims For Payment Former Employee Whistleblower Will Receive Share Of Settlement Private individuals bringing suits under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq., recover billions of dollars every year for the government against […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Allegations Of Unauthorized Prescriptions Allegedly Misleading Statements Of Drug’s Effectiveness Former Employee Whistleblower Will Receive $200,000 Reward Health care fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year.  Much of that fraud comes under the government’s Medicare and Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California programs, including payments for medications that are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Violations Of Anti-Kickback Statute And Stark Law Improper Financial Inducements For Referrals Physician Whistleblower Will Receive $3 Million Reward Federal law prohibits financial inducements for referrals by physicians and other health care providers for patient services.  See Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b), and Stark Law, 42 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Ineligible Certifications Of Hospice Patients Alleged Payments For Non-Terminally Ill Patients Three Former Employees And Physician Blow Whistle Healthcare fraud against government programs like Medicare costs taxpayers billions every year.  Private persons with knowledge of such fraud can bring a whistleblower suit (known as a qui tam action) […]