by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Healthcare fraud has become so rampant that more than half of False Claims Act cases are filed against healthcare providers trying to rip off Medicare and Medicaid. To try to make sense of the more than one hundred FCA cases that settled or tried last year, I have...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
According to a list published by Taxpayers Against Fraud, during fiscal year 2014 (which ended on September 30, 2014), the Government settled at least 136 cases under the False Claims Act. I am a lawyer who represent whistleblowers, and whenever I tell people about my...
by admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last summer a heavy lobby from business groups halted a bill that would have created a False Claims Act in West Virginia. Critics claimed the Act would “encourage ‘sue-and-settle’ litigation that benefitted only plaintiff’s lawyers and the...
by admin | Nov 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
This past fall I was honored to sit at the same table as Elin Baklid-Kunz, as she received the Whistleblower of the Year Award. Each year the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund holds an awards banquet, and recognizes a man or woman who has had the integrity to...
by admin | Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m not crowing. Much! Just yesterday on this blog I wrote about the Top 4 Surprises About 2014’s False Claims Act Cases, and I said I thought we were seeing a surprising new trend. It seemed to me that the Government was taking a lot of cases it had not...
by admin | Oct 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Each year the Government gets ripped off to the tune of billions of dollars, and healthcare fraud sits first chair. This past year has been no exception; the Government closes out its fiscal year on September 30, so we can now see that in 2014, medical fraud cases...
by admin | Jul 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
A California man is suing a stem cell research company, saying they fired him when he complained that the company was cranking out damaged stem cells — and planning to inject them into patients. In a retaliation lawsuit filed in Alameda County in California,...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Is the Government being short-sighted on this one? Medicare and Medicaid are skeptical about claims that ob/gyns are giving group counseling to nursing home residents. But surely if a group of you in your nursing home are 80 and pregnant, you need counseling?!...
by admin | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have you ever wished you could be two places at once — say at work, helping with the school play, and at the gym – all at the same time? That would be great! But wait – what if you could talk your employer into paying you for doing one job AND...
by admin | Jun 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
For several years, Sean McKessey, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Whistleblower, has told whistleblower lawyers like me that the SEC is really serious about putting a stop to retaliation. When the SEC wrote its whistleblower...
