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...
by admin | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Department of Justice is reporting that a General Electric Co. will pay $6.58 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit stemming from extremely serious allegations by a whistleblower. The whistleblower says that a GE subsidiary made fuel tanks for Navy Hornets...
by admin | Oct 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Maybe he was just one heck of a hard worker? According to an indictment filed against Texas doctor Dennis B. Barson, Jr., M.D., the doctor and his medical clinic administrator, Dario Juarez, fraudulently collected $2.1 million in payments from Medicare – in...
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
A growing number of False Claims Act cases are holding companies accountable when they get contracts by fraudulently pretending to be minority-owned or woman-owned. In one recent case, an Alabama company wound up paying the Government $1,150,000 after a whistleblower...
by admin | Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Think Columbus Day presents a big problem in terms of car accidents? Unfortunately, Columbus Day is not just deadly in terms of car accidents – in the year 2009 it was the deadliest holiday weekend of all. Believe it or not, that year more people died on Georgia...
by admin | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Center for Public Integrity is delivering more bad news about the budget cuts to the fraud-fighting arm of Medicare and Medicaid. In my whistleblower law blog entry, Now Here’s A Bad Idea: Government Decreases Funding to Fight Medicare Fraud, I blogged about...
by admin | Oct 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The story is all too familiar. In fact, I told it in my very last blog post, when I discussed False Claims Act allegations against Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Like Vanderbilt, Wahiawa General Hospital of Honolulu is accused of charging for physicians to...
by admin | Sep 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was really disappointed to hear about some very serious allegations against the hospital associated with my undergraduate alma mater, Vanderbilt University. I am a lawyer who represents whistleblowers, and I hate to think that such a fine place as Vanderbilt would...
by admin | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a whistleblower, the Department of Justice has announced yet another Medicare fraud settlement with a group that was charging full physician rates for work that was actually being done by non-physicians. In this particular False Claims Act lawsuit, the...
by admin | Sep 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
This past January, the Office of the Inspector General for the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a very complimentary report about the SEC’s newly-developed Whistleblower Program, which is designed to help the SEC ferret out securities fraud. The...
