We read today in the news that a Dr. Michael D. Kim in Houston, Texas had been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in yet another “motorized wheelchair fraud scheme.” According to the government’s indictment, Dr. Kim fraudulently approved thousands of Medicare beneficiaries for motorized wheelchairs in return for cash…
Some of the country’s leading attorneys in qui tam whistleblower cases and IRS Whistleblower cases will gather for the “First Annual Whistleblower Law Symposium,” which will take place at the Georgia State Bar Headquarters on Thursday, September 20, beginning at 9:00 a.m. (See Agenda below). This Whistleblower Law Symposium is…
Yesterday I enjoyed leading a panel discussion of the new State False Claims Acts, at the Southeastern Health Care Fraud Conference in Atlanta. Of particular interest to this audience was the new Georgia State False Medicaid Claims Act that became law in May 2007, which has qui tam whistleblower provisions…
Medicaid Fraud Recovery Announced by Missouri Attorney General False and fraudulent billings were uncovered in a Missouri Medicaid fraud investigation that has produced a recovery by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Billings like this typically violate the False Claims Act or the various state False Claims…
Alleged Overcharging for Prescription Drugs Leads to $13 Million Settlement in Boston Pharmaceutical fraud harms the Medicare and Medicaid programs–and the citizens who pay for them. Drug companies’ alleged overcharging for prescription drugs has led to fraud investigations and lawsuits by whistleblower attorneys in the past. This week, shortly before…
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…