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Over 20 Years Standing Up For Whistleblowers In Nationwide Fraud Litigation
The Middle District of Florida convicted two men of a $1.4 billion health care fraud after a 24-day trial. They conspired to fraudulently bill private insurers using a sophisticated pass-through billing system where drug test analyses were reportedly conducted in...
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged Ernst & Young LLP for ethics lapses involving audit professionals cheating on their ethics exams, which are required for acquiring and maintaining a CPA license. The company then covered up the lapse by...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hit two hospitals in Georgia with $1.1 million in financial penalties for violating the 2021 rules requiring hospitals to share their medical procedures and treatment prices. This change (which the CMS will enforce)...
The IRS released its annual report on its whistleblower program. The amount collected dropped from $1.44 billion in 2018 to $245 million in 2022. Whistleblower awards also dropped to about 10% ($34.5 million) of the amount awarded in 2018. This precipitous drop has...
The Southern District of New York and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have filed a healthcare lawsuit against 11 New York-based defendants. The lawsuit seeks damages and penalties for billing Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary procedures at 11...
A doctor was found liable for violating the False Claims Act by accepting millions in kickbacks. He agreed to repay $2.3 million to settle a civil lawsuit that alleged that the transfers violated the Federal Debt Collections Procedures Act. The doctor was not guilty...
Two licensed home care services agencies in Brooklyn have settled claims of not appropriately paying their staff. The cases were heard in the Eastern District of New York. All American Homecare Agency and Crown of Life violated the federal False Claims Act and New...
In recent years, Fresenius Medical Care made headlines for bribes paid in Angola and Saudi Arabia and for shoddy bookkeeping in several other countries. In light of these and other irregularities, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is monitoring the German-based...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on April 25 that it awarded $6 million to two groups of whistleblowers. According to a redacted order, both provided information assistance to a single covered action. The SEC published no names and did not...
A whistleblower filed a claim in 2021 with the IRS alleging that American Express sales staff knowingly encouraged businesses to underreport their taxes. According to the Wall Street Journal, this was done as part of a sales pitch stating that companies could use...