by admin | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
An Indiana hospital played tried to play “hide the surgery” from the Government, but the Government won. According to a DOJ press release, Community Health Network (ACHN) of Indiana claimed that surgeries were being performed at the hospital, when actually...
by admin | Jul 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
In my last whistleblower lawyer blog post, I talked about a man who stood up to food service giant Chartwells, ultimately forcing it to repay $19.4 million to kids in the District of Columbia school system. Turns out that fraud by school lunch providers is more...
by admin | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
The only thing worse than getting a school lunch is not getting a school lunch. Or being handed a plate of spoiled food. This month D.C. schoolchildren tasted sweet revenge when the contractor providing their school lunches agreed to settle a False Claims Act suit...
by admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Patient: Are you sure this is the right drug for me? Doctor: Why, yes, Ms. Smith, I have no doubt this is the absolute best drug I could prescribe. Patient: How do you know that, doctor? Doctor: Well, the company that makes this drug pays me a lot more than the other...
by admin | May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
At least it was better than a poke in the eye. Oh, wait – it really was a poke in the eye. In April, a Georgia doctor paid $790,000 to settle claims he cheated Medicaid by giving patients unnecessary eye procedures – including puncturing their corneas....
by admin | May 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I read an article about a Marietta, Georgia, lab owner who faked allergy tests, the healthcare fraud hit home for me on a personal level. From the time she was little, my daughter was terrified of shots. She needed allergy shots, but it took me six years to get...
by admin | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Anti-Kickback Statute made it illegal for hospitals to pay doctors to send them patients. Instead of following the law, some hospitals have worked out elaborate schemes to try to disguise the kickbacks they seem hell-bent on handing out to physicians. Thanks to...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
A Florida home health agency and its owners paid $1.65 million when a whistleblower filed a False Claims Act lawsuit claiming the HHA was trying an end run around the Anti-Kickback Statute. Everybody knows that nursing homes and hospitals are not supposed to pay...
by admin | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just cannot believe I am writing a sequel to last year’s blog entry about a hospital that paid $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it was inserting stents in people’s hearts – even though they did not need them. At the time I thought surely...
by admin | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Whistleblowers and the Government have been using the False Claims Act to stop hospitals that pay kickbacks to doctors in order to get them to refer patients to the hospital. But even as the Government is cracking down and enforcing the Anti-Kickback Statute, some...
