Beaumont Health has agreed to pay an $84.5 million settlement to the U.S. Department of Justice, state of Michigan and four whistleblowers for violating federal laws that bar hospitals from overcompensating physicians and filing false claims. The settlement resolves whistleblower lawsuits filed by four former employees and physicians of Beaumont that go back to contract […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. financial regulator announced on Thursday it had awarded whistleblowers over $45 million for helping the watchdog identify improper activity. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the high payouts, a dramatic increase from smaller awards granted in prior years, are evidence the regulator is increasingly receiving tips to help hunt […]
esterday, the country celebrated National Whistleblower Day. The day celebrates whistleblowers’ contributions to democracy, and commemorates the Founding Fathers’ unanimous passage of the first U.S. whistleblower law on July 30, 1778. The National Whistleblower Center hosted its annual National Whistleblower Daycelebration on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate also unanimously passed a resolution recognizing July 30th, 2018 as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.” In […]
Whistleblowers expose frauds and scandals, and have the power to upend a company’s bottom line. You don’t have to look any further than the recent headlines around Theranos — which was exposed by a whistleblower for defrauding investors, leading the company’s value to plummet from billions to zero — to know that reporting misconduct does […]
TYLER, Texas — Two EMS agencies and a hospital agreed to a $21 million settlement in a whistleblower case. Tyler Paper reported that the former East Texas Medical Center, Paramedics Plus and Emergency Medical Services Authority agreed to the settlement in a federal lawsuit that alleged the involved parties were part of an illegal kickback scheme. […]
On July 18, 2018, the Department of Justice announced that it had reached a ten-million-dollar settlement agreement with Southern SNF Management, Inc., Rehab Services in Motion d/b/a Dynamic Rehab, and nine affiliated skilled nursing facilities to resolve allegations of Medicare fraud. According to Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler, the case demonstrates the Department […]
A five-year-old whistleblower complaint about alleged healthcare fraud at a south Alabama rehabilitation clinic has resulted in a $10 million settlement involving a string of facilities in Florida. The Department of Justice released news of the settlement this week. Long-sealed court documents, now revealed, lay out a narrative alleging that two healthcare companies systematically overbilled […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. | July 12, 2018—The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced its largest whistleblower award to-date in a commodity fraud case. According to the Commission, it issued “an award of approximately $30 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided key original information that led to a successful enforcement action” “This is a major breakthrough for […]
Nursing home chain Preferred Care agreed to settle False Claims Act charges for $540,000, the Department of Justice has announced. Federal officials accused the company of upcoding Medicare beneficiaries between July 2012 and October 2017, and of providing “worthless services” at Kentucky’s Stanton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for three years.
On June 28, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to the rules governing its whistleblower program. Press Release, SEC Proposes Whistleblower Rule Amendments, No. 2018-120 (June 28, 2018). Among other things, the proposed amendments would affect the types of whistleblower awards authorized by the SEC’s rules, allow for adjustments of awards in […]
