By Steve Kardell | Published April 15, 2019 | Posted in Fraud, Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: allegations of improper billing, billed federal healthcare programs, fraud, whistleblower attorney, You can start a False Claims Act case | Comments Off on How to Respond if Your Company Attempts to Push You
How to Respond if Your Company Attempts to Push You
National pharmacy chain Walgreens recently settled a pair of False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuits with the federal government for a total of $269 million. The claims involved allegations of improper billing. In the first lawsuit, Walgreens was alleged to have billed federal healthcare programs (including Medicaid and Medicare) for distributing insulin pens to hundreds of Read More
Read MoreEagle Home Mortgage Accused of Approving Unqualified Buyers
Eagle Home Mortgage, a subsidiary of Lennar, is the defendant in a new whistleblower lawsuit that alleges the lender routinely approved unqualified borrowers for mortgages, going so far as to falsify borrowers’ documents to increase the chances of approval. The suit also claims the company hid negative findings on audited loans from regulators. This latest Read More
Read MoreIdentifying and Reporting a Ponzi Scheme
It is hard to believe, but we have now passed the 10-year anniversary of the federal government bringing down Bernie Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. This scheme did ultimately do some good, as it led to Congress enacting the whistleblower program at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but many people lost a whole lot of Read More
Read MoreFederal Government Joins Hospital Whistleblower Suit
The U.S. federal government announced it would join a whistleblower lawsuit filed against a West Virginia hospital. The suit includes allegations the hospital improperly submitted payments and kickbacks to physicians under the direction of its management firm and chief executive officer. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2017 and was made public for the first Read More
Read MoreSprint to Pay $330 Million in Whistleblower Tax Fraud Settlement
Sprint, the fourth-most popular mobile phone carrier in the United States, recently agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit to the tune of $330 million. The whistleblower in the case alleged the company had been regularly committing tax fraud since 2005, and first brought allegations against Sprint in 2011. The Attorney General’s office decided to join Read More
Read MoreFourth Circuit Allows United Airlines Whistleblower Retaliation Claim to Proceed
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reinstated a whistleblower claim filed by a former employee of United Airlines who claims he was fired after repeatedly issuing complaints about the company’s failure to properly conduct repairs on U.S. Air Force cargo planes. A judge in district court had dismissed the retaliation claim, but on appeal, Read More
Read MoreFlorida Healthcare Organization Faces Federal Whistleblower Lawsuit for Medicare Fraud Allegations
A former auditor for Lee Health alleges in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the Florida hospital system routinely defrauded Medicaid and Medicare by inflating doctor’s bills to drive more referrals to its clinics and hospitals. The case specifically points to fraudulent incidents involving certain neurosurgeons, cardiologists, pulmonologists and a cancer doctor who received six- and Read More
Read MoreStudy Indicates Whistleblowers Indicate a Healthy Company Culture
The Harvard Business Review recently published research about whistleblowers in the United States. It led to the conclusion that whistleblowers, while they may often herald corporate disaster, are actually indicative of healthy companies. The researchers had access to more than 1.2 million records of internal reports made by employees of U.S. public companies. It found Read More
Read MoreCuro Health Services Subsidiary Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $5.9 Million
SouthernCare Inc., a subsidiary of Curo Health Services, recently agreed to pay $5.9 million to settle a federal whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company submitted unnecessary or insufficiently documented Medicare claims. SouthernCare Inc. is a hospice provider that operates across nine states. It settled the allegations in December before the case could go to trial. The Read More
Read MoreFederal Government Joins Hospital Whistleblower Lawsuit
The U.S. federal government announced it will join a lawsuit against a hospital in West Virginia. The lawsuit alleges the hospital improperly issued payments and kickbacks to doctors under the supervision and direction of its CEO and management firm. The lawsuit became public for the first time in late December, after it was initially filed Read More
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