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Over 20 Years Standing Up For Whistleblowers In Nationwide Fraud Litigation
The Department of Justice recovered over $1.6 billion thanks to qui tam whistleblower lawsuits in the fiscal year 2021, which is October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. The qui tam provisions under the False Claim Act empower private citizens to file lawsuits on...
In September of 2021, the Justice Department accused a health insurer in upstate New York and an affiliated medical data analytics company of cheating the federal government out of tens of millions of dollars. The civil complaint of fraud is the first to target a data...
Sutter Health recently settled allegations of mischarging the Medicare Advantage Program. The $90 million settlement is the second-largest settlement under the False Claims Act against a hospital provider, the second-largest in California. The settlement resolves a...
Fallen tech icon Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at age 19 to start Theranos. She grew the medical device company to a $9 billion valuation and made herself the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Favorably compared to innovators like Apple,...
Official USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar systematically abused hundreds of girls and women, and he was finally charged in 2016 with federal child pornography offenses and sexual abuse charges in Michigan. Nassar pled guilty in 2017, but gymnasts believe that...
There are some general protections to whistleblowers, but the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adds specific protections for those in the healthcare industry. It specifically protects workers from retaliation if they report violations. The act defines...
When a medical doctor or clinician is given a monetary incentive to prescribe a medicine, product or device to patients, this is known as a pharmaceutical kickback. How common are pharmaceutical kickbacks? A 2015 study by the JAMA found that almost half- 48% of all...
Everyone knows that drug reps meet with doctors and offer them gifts to increase the number of prescriptions for their medications. But what happens when the doctors don’t want to meet with the reps? The pharmaceuticals might start bribing the doctors’ office staff....
Whistleblowers play a huge part in keeping our industries honest, and nowhere is their dedication more important than in the medical industry. Without their oversight and action, billions of dollars may end up wasted, as shown by a recent suit against a pain...
A Walgreens customer who was insured through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has filed a federal class action lawsuit against Walgreens accusing it of conspiring to overcharge customers who have insurance. According to the lawsuit, Walgreens has secret agreements with a...