by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
This Thanksgiving weekend Georgians will head out to be with families and friends. We’ll eat and visit and be grateful for all we have been given in this nation. Some of us, of course, also will shop! But the sad truth is that some of us here in Georgia may die...
by admin | Nov 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Well, this certainly makes me feel safer . . . NOT. DOJ is intervening in a False Claims Act lawsuit against a company accused of failing to do background investigations on people who were applying to work for government agencies. The company, DSIS, was hired to vet...
by admin | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Obama administration will not consider the federal insurance exchange or the subsidies the Government pays to insurance companies to be “federal health care programs.” For most...
by admin | Nov 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
As a lawyer representing Medicare fraud whistleblowers, I am used to seeing stories about Medicare scams in South Florida. After all, South Florida is the epicenter of Medicare fraud in the U.S. But Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald is reporting that many of these...
by admin | Nov 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
A hospital system has been caught with its hand in the cookie jar – and it was holding a pretty big cookie. A California health system has agreed to pay California’s Department of Insurance a whopping $ 46 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled...