by admin | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Maryland company wound up paying $10.3 million under the False Claims Act to resolve allegations that it double billed Medicare for splints. According to DOJ, Dynasplint Systems, Inc., was submitting claims for splints for patients who were in skilled nursing...
by admin | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
College healthcare programs beware: the University of California says that its students were paid or tricked into handing over their student healthcare identification information. Scammers then bilked the school system of $12 million for bogus, unnecessary...
by admin | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
If there is anything worse than making defective steel reinforcing bars, it would have to be making defective steel reinforcing bars for a nuclear waste treatment facility. A Georgia company has agreed to pay the United States $4.6 million to settle a False Claims Act...
by admin | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
According to a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by whistleblower Janet Burke, California dermatologist Dr. Norman Brooks was falsely diagnosing patients with skin cancer, just so he could perform a specialized (and expensive) type of surgery on them – Mohs...
by admin | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
As an attorney who represents whistleblowers, I have been posting about cases where whistleblowers have helped the Government recover hundreds of millions of dollars lost to MAS fraud. The government negotiates Multiple Award Schedule (“MAS”) contracts...
by admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
The U.S. federal government is the biggest customer in the world, spending nearly $400 billion every year. Naturally companies are clamoring to get a piece of such a huge, lucrative market. And with buying power that big, by rights the Government ought to be getting...
by admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thanks to whistleblowers and the False Claims Act, in the past ten years the federal government has recovered $602 million from contractors accused of overcharging the Government under Multiple Award Schedule (“MAS”) contracts. Whistleblowers have received...
by admin | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Over the past few years, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been at the epicenter of kickback schemes designed to rip off Medicare and Medicaid. Thanks to several whistleblowers, the Government has collected more than $150 million from SNFs and their partners for...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thanks to whistleblowers and the False Claims Act, in the past 36 months the government has settled two major cases against skilled nursing homes that it says provided worthless services to patients. A third case against a Tennessee SNF chain is pending. Perhaps the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Have you heard the one about the farmer that had 154 sheep standing out in a field? He wanted more, so he rounded them up and then he had 200. A cute joke unless the farmer then sells you the sheep and charges you for 200! Unfortunately, some skilled nursing...
