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Over 20 Years Standing Up For Whistleblowers In Nationwide Fraud Litigation
Earlier this month, the White House announced the President's intent to nominate Danny Werfel as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), calling him a "public and private sector leader who has served both Democratic and Republican administrations." Werfel...
Anyone with insider knowledge who identifies and exposes defrauding, stealing and cheating government programs can file a qui tam lawsuit. This led to 598 lawsuits on behalf of the government in 2021, which recovered $5.6 billion in judgments under the False Claim Act...
Fraudulent billing continues to be a major issue throughout the healthcare industry. We have discussed various cases and settlements over time. A topic within this realm that seems to grow in importance is the risk adjustment fraud that occurs concerning the...
Despite numerous complaints of inappropriate behavior, Dr. Stanley Patrick Weber worked for decades at federal Indian Health Service (HIS) hospitals, mainly in Montana and South Dakota. The government agreed to pay $14.5 million to eight sexual abuse victims, each...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that it charged the National Realty Investment Advisors LLC (NRIA) of New Jersey and four of its former executives. The allegations state that the company raised about $600 million from around 2,000...
We often write about regulatory violations related to the healthcare industry or finance, but the government investigates a wide range of cases. For example, the Department of Justice announced a few months ago that defense contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. settled...
The pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, agreed to pay $900 million to settle allegations that the company caused false billing submissions to Medicare and Medicaid. The company was accused of paying illegal kickbacks to doctors who...
As technology for billing and tracking medical expenses has increased in ease and sophistication, challenges still exist for outsourcing companies in the business of billing. Patients have unprecedented access to their digital health records and can track health care...
The IRS announced on September 8 that two whistleblowers received a reward of $8.8 million for their information in collecting $35 million in corporate income taxes. This amount triples the amount initially awarded to the two. As we wrote earlier this year, the IRS’s...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act (WPIA) on September 15, 2022. The vote on the bipartisan bill was 221-203. The bill is designed to expand whistleblower protections for federal employees, notably granting employees...