AARP Applauds State Law to Combat Medicaid Fraud with Qui Tam Whistleblower Approach We were pleased to see that Florida has joined New York, Georgia, Oklahoma and more than a dozen other states in creating a State False Claims Act with qui tam whistleblower provisions similar to the federal False…
Durable Medical Equipment Company Received Kickbacks from Pharmacy Owners in Health Care Fraud Case In a Medicare fraud case of interest to whistleblowers and whistleblower attorneys, a Miami a federal jury convicted a home health care operator of conspiracy to defraud and submit false claims and receive kickbacks, conspiracy to…
Whistleblower Reveals Alleged Drug Price Schemes to Defraud Medicaid When drug companies hide the true prices charged for prescription drugs, the pharma companies can violate laws protecting state Medicaid programs from being defrauded by “overpaying” for drugs. The experienced Medicaid fraud prosecutors of the Texas Attorney General’s Office have announced…
False Claims Act Case Continues Over Health Care Fraud Allegations As other whistleblower attorneys who were former federal prosecutors know, Medicare fraud may sometimes lead not only to a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit, but also to prison time for the guilty party. A former home health care company owner now…
Medicare Fraud and Medicaid Fraud Alleged by Nurses at Nursing Homes Two nurses disturbed by nursing home abuse and neglect of nursing home residents–who apparently were subjected to gross nursing home malpractice–are the “whistleblowers” in a nursing home False Claims Act qui tam lawsuit in Missouri, which the U.S. Attorney’s…
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act prohibits pharmaceutical companies from marketing or promoting a drug for uses that the FDA has not approved. This practice is known in the industry as “off label marketing”. Increasingly, pharmaceutical companies have purposely engaged in off label marketing in order to increase profits at…
While there are many specific retaliation provisions unique to claims filed under the False Claims Act, with the Equal Opportunity Commission and/or arising out of Sarbanes-Oxley provisions, all of which protect informant employees from being retaliated against by their employer, a little known fact is that there is a general…
Even though the Internal Revenue Service has had a Rewards Program for many years, until recently, there was very little encouragement for tax whistleblowers or informants to come forward concerning their knowledge of the under-reporting of taxes. While it is well known that income tax evasion costs taxpayers approximately $300…
IRS whistleblowers and whistleblower attorneys take note: accounting firms participating in selling tax shelters were jolted by today’s announcement of the indictment of four Ernst & Young partners for tax fraud conspiracy and other federal criminal charges relating to tax shelters. The four accountants were alleged to have marketed tax…
I was excited to be invited to participate in today’s signing of the new Georgia “State False Medicaid Claims Act,” the newest state qui tam whistleblower law. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Edward Lindsey, asked this whistleblower lawyer blog author to join him and representatives of the Georgia Department of Community…