U.S. Sen. Grassley Works to Strengthen False Claims Act
In May 2009, the President signed the Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act, sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley and Senators Patrick Leahy and Ted Kaufman, made major…
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New Poll: Nearly Two Thirds of Business Professionals Expect Uptick in Recovered Government Funds
Sixty-four percent of business professionals polled during a recent Deloitte webcast think the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act will be effective in increasing the total…
Read More »Supreme Court Hears Argument to Decide Whether Fraud Allegations in State Reports are Public Disclosures
On November 30, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States ex rel. Wilson, No.…
Read More »SEC Ponders Cash Rewards for Whistleblowers
As Bernard Madoff was planning his guilty plea in a history-making fraud case, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary. L. Schapiro announced that the SEC…
Read More »Weill Medical College of Cornell University to Pay in Excess of $2.6 Millon to Settle Fraud Connected to Research Funding
Weill Medical College of Cornell University has agreed to pay $2,606,751 to resolve civil charges that the New York City-based college defrauded the government in…
Read More »Hospitals Are Giving Lessons on Blowing the Whistle on Fraud
A federal law that takes effect in January 2007 requires the country’s hospitals and nursing homes to educate their employees and officers on how to…
Read More »Feds Sue Nursing Home Company
Cathedral Rock Corporation of Ft. Worth, Texas, which operates five nursing homes in St. Louis, Missouri has to now defend itself against a medicaid fraud…
Read More »Inflated Cost Reports Cost California Hospital Over $2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
On April 20, 2007, the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center paid the United States government in excess of $2 million to settle allegations of overbilling…
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 »Kickbacks in Medical School? Take a Look at New Jersey’s State Medical School
Two doctors are being fired and the pay of at least eight others are being reduced in the wake of a federal monitor’s charges that…
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