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 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 In August, Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHS) and Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation along with 119 of their hospitals settled seven False Claims Act lawsuits for $98 million. Whistleblowers from all around the country came forth with information regarding the inappropriate practices of CHS and its associated […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers brought two False Claims Act lawsuits for Medicare fraud against UnitedHealth Group, Inc. the first in 2011 and the second in 2014. On August 28, 2014, the Department of Justice joined the two complaints against UnitedHealth. In both lawsuits, whistleblowers alleged that UnitedHealth billed Medicare for hospice […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Many elders fall victim to fraud through trickery and deceit. However, studies show that aging hampers decision-making abilities due to mental impairment, resulting in a lack of capacity to detect fraud. How do we make decisions? We rely on the part of our brain known as the ventromedial […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The federal government has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against two hospital operators. The hospital operators were accused of fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid. The healthcare industry has been the target of many false claims cases recently. Many of the whistleblower cases contain fraudulent billing allegations. Los Angeles whistleblower […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The government funds healthcare through Medicare and Medicaid. There are an abundance of whistleblower lawsuits filed that are related to the healthcare industry. The role of the government in funding part of the healthcare system has led directly to the large number of whistleblower or False Claims lawsuits. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A Pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay the federal government over $171 million to settle a False Claims Act case.  Endo Pharmaceutical is a subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions, Inc.   A whistleblower lawsuit accused Endo Pharmaceuticals of off label marketing of the Lidoderm pain patch.  It was alleged […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A former employee of a California based hospital chain has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the hospital.  The former employee was an executive with Prime Healthcare Services.  She alleges that the company overcharged the Medicare program on a regular basis.  California whistleblower attorneys say that Medicare fraud continues […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER As chief financial officer for a large hospital operator, Ralph Williams was tasked with monitoring contracts and bill pay between his employer, Healthy Management Associates (HMA) and its partners. After discovering inconsistences in the contracts and payments, Williams began an investigation of the contracts. Williams discovered HMA; a […]