Physician Whistleblowers Play Key Role in Deterring Medicare Fraud
In recent years, physicians have increasingly stepped into the role of successful whistleblower. In the complex world of medicine, this promising trend has deterred some…
Read More »Qui Tam 101
Latest Qui Tam and False Claims Act News and Analysis
Contact FormCategory Archives: Medicare
Hospitals Retain Physician Practices in Order to Secure Patient Referrals
In recent months, the number of Stark-predicted False Claims Act qui tam recoveries has skyrocketed, returning hundreds of millions of dollars to the United States Treasury. While…
Read More »Whistleblowers Assist the Government in Recovering $2.2 Billion from Johnson & Johnson
This week, the Justice Department announced the conclusion of an 8-year-long civil False Claims Act case against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Scios, Inc.…
Read More »Courts Continue to Sensibly Lower the Pleading Standard for Qui Tam Relators
Recently, the Ninth Circuit opined that allegations cleared the heightened evidentiary standard applied to False Claims Act actions, even though the Relator did not identify…
Read More »U.S. Department of Justice and Qui Tam Attorneys Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Modern False Claims Act
Recently, Nolan & Auerbach, P.A. partners and nearly three hundred government and qui tam attorneys gathered at the United States Department of Justice, in Washington,…
Read More »Government Leverages Three-Year Tolling Provision to Reach Actions from the 1990s
In 2009, after two decades of divergent readings of the False Claims Act’s statute of limitations provision, Congress considered adopting a straightforward 10-year statute of…
Read More »Judge Gives Green Light to Johnson & Johnson Whistleblower Case
A federal judge refused to dismiss an intervened qui tam action, which alleges Johnson & Johnson paid millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to Omnicare,…
Read More »House Approves Anti-fraud Legislation
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced in a May 18, 2009 press release that The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy…
Read More »U.S. Joins Suit Against Renal Care Group Alleging False Billings to Medicare for Home Care Renal Dialysis
Last month, the United States intervened in a qui tam lawsuit accusing Renal Care Group Inc. (RCG) and Renal Care Group Supply Company (RCGSC) of…
Read More »Cost Report Fraud Allegations Cost Baptist Medical and Integris Health $12.2 Million
A former contractor of Integris blew the whistle on Integris Health, Inc., alleging that it was submitting inflated claims to Medicare. The complaint stated that…
Read More »