By Steve Kardell | Published June 12, 2017 | Posted in Fraud, Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: Medicare Overbilling, UnitedHealth Group, whistleblower |
Whistleblower Claims UnitedHealth Group Involved in Medicare Overbilling
A whistleblower has made claims that UnitedHealth Group, a Minnesota-based company, has committed Medicare fraud by submitting false information related to patient conditions. If the claim is true, it could mean that the large healthcare provider defrauded the program out of hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of several years. The whistleblower says Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Receives $545,000 After Enforcement Action Against Bay Sleep Clinic
A sleep technician in California will receive a $545,000 award for serving as a whistleblower in a case involving the Bay Sleep Clinic and several of its affiliates. Bay Sleep Clinic recently settled the case with the U.S. Department of Justice for $2.6 million. The action stemmed from allegations that the company and its affiliates Read More
Read MoreCourt Rules Whistleblowers May Disclose Confidential Information to SEC
A federal judge in San Diego has ruled that whistleblowers may receive protection if they release confidential information to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of an investigation into potential fraud. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant denied most of a motion for summary judgment from BofI Federal Bank’s attorneys, Read More
Read MoreInfosys Controversy Intensifies with Whistleblower’s Anonymous Letter
A letter from an apparent whistleblower with Infosys, one of India’s leading technology companies, alleges that some members of the company’s management team benefited illegally from a recent acquisition. According to media reports, the anonymous whistleblower says the company Infosys acquired, Israeli automation firm Panaya, had been valued at about $162 million a month before Read More
Read MoreWells Fargo Fires 4 Senior Managers in Wake of Fake Accounts Scandal
Four senior managers have been let go from Wells Fargo due to their alleged connection to last year’s scandal involving more than 1.5 million fake bank accounts that were opened in customers’ names. The board of directors approved the terminations unanimously, taking the action as part of an ongoing independent investigation into the wrongdoing. Among Read More
Read MoreAfter Audit, Xerox Corp. Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Medicaid Fraud in Texas
The Xerox Corporation is currently embroiled in conflict with the state of Texas, which the company accuses of using complex legal action to “divide and conquer” as part of a $1 billion lawsuit involving alleged Medicaid fraud. Attorneys representing Xerox recently filed a brief with the state Supreme Court arguing that the state had brought Read More
Read MoreFlorida Jury Sides with Whistleblower in Claim Against Consulate Health Care
A Florida jury recently ruled in favor of a nursing home whistleblower in a case containing allegations that her former employer routinely submitted false claims to Medicaid and Medicare. Angela Ruckh worked for La Vie Management, a company now known as Consulate Health Care. She claimed providers regularly presented fraudulent reimbursement claims, which added up Read More
Read MoreFederal Judge Rules Whistleblowers Allowed to Send Confidential Documents to SEC
A federal judge in San Diego recently ruled that whistleblowers can be protected for sending confidential information to the SEC for the purposes of reporting fraud. BofI Federal Bank, a San Diego institution, had moved for summary judgment of whistleblower protections placed on a formal internal auditor of the bank, Charles Matthew Erhart. With this Read More
Read MoreNew Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Defrauded Medicare
A recently filed whistleblower lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth Group and other health plans that hired subsidiaries of the insurance company routinely submitted false information about the conditions of patents to boost reimbursement rates from Medicare. If the allegations turn out to be true, the fraudulent scheme could have generated hundreds of millions to billions of dollars Read More
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