ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Three people were recently convicted by a federal jury on charges related to Medicare fraud.  The trial lasted 13 days and the defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks involving the Medicare Program.  The […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A California based nursing home operator has agreed to pay a settlement related to two whistleblower lawsuits.  The settlement is reportedly worth $48 million dollars.  It was alleged that the nursing home operator submitted bills to Medicare for therapy sessions that were unnecessary or never took place.  Ensign […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of a California durable medical equipment firm was recently found guilty of Medicare fraud.  The scheme resulted in more than $11 million dollars in fraudulent Medicare charges.  Los Angeles false claims attorneys say that Medicare fraud is a problem that is continuing to grow, at the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Diagnostic laboratories, a California based medical laboratory agreed to pay $19.4 million to settle a whistleblower case.  The money will be paid to federal and state governments.  The two whistleblowers alleged that their employment was terminated at the company after they reported kickbacks and secret discounts. California whistleblower […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In July of 2013, the Justice Department announced a multi-million dollar settlement as part of the whistleblower rewards program.  This whistleblower case involved allegations that a Michigan based cardiology group performed unnecessary heart procedures on patients.  Specifically, it was alleged that doctors in the group ordered heart catheterizations […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A 69 year-old disabled Vietnam was recently a victim of Medicare fraud.  He has lived in the same house with his wife for over forty years, but she recently had a stroke.  He was exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and currently has a degenerative disease […]

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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER         One lawsuit against Novartis alleges that the pharmaceutical company paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe Novartis products over those from other companies.  Those Novartis products were then reimbursed by federal health care programs.  As a result, the federal government is alleged to have paid […]

-ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER-                 Keeping patients on hospice care for years and letting the government foot the bill can lead to serious problems, as one healthcare provider recently learned.  Hospice care is a type of palliative end of life care for those expected to die within 180 days.  While an […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In Chicago, a whistleblower helped to uncover that Northwestern Memorial Hospital has have violated the False Claims Act. According to whistleblower Audra Soulias, a former employee at Northwestern University, the hospital and university allegedly double-billed Medicare and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for patient reimbursement. Whistleblower Soulias […]