Brian Sant’s settlement share is $840,000 as a whistleblower on Medicare billing fraud.Yue Yu, a former product manager at Biomet, which also operated under the name Biomet Spine & Bone Healing Technologies, reported that false claims were being submitted to Medicare and Medicaid by using illegal kickbacks, including payment to staff in doctors' offices under personal agreements to induce orders of OsteoGen bone growth simulators.While working at Extendicare Health Services, Tracy Lovvorn learned that the company's skilled nursing facilities were providing patients with unnecessary therapy for the sole purpose of receiving higher reimbursements from Medicare.Jacqueline Bloink, a certified medical reimbursement specialist, worked for Carondelet Health Network for one year. WIMC settled for $29 million with $5.15 million to whistleblower Matthew McDonald.Linda Anderson, ex-triage nurse for Alive Hospice, filed a healthcare fraud lawsuit against Alive Hospice under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act alleging Alive billed Medicare and TennCare (Medicaid) for patients ineligible for inpatient hospice care. Ameri-Source Settled the Claim for $3M and a $250K Criminal Fine for Ameri-Source Owners Ajay Goel & Thomas Diener.Lauren Kieff, an ex AstraZeneca sales rep, used the False Claims Act to file a whistleblower lawsuit to report Wyeth’s healthcare fraud in not honoring best pricing requirement on Medicaid claims. The court denied summary judgment on the company’s first argument because it was unclear from the record whether the whistleblower received sufficient notice of his termination to trigger the running of the statute of limitations. James Thomas Webb earned a $3,115,000 whistleblower award as provided under the False Claims Act where individuals with inside information on companies cheating on government contracts can file a whistleblower or “qui tam” lawsuit and earn as a reward 10 to 30% of whatever is recovered for the taxpayers.
abruptly fired a Los Angeles Wells Fargo branch manager after he reported several incidents of possible bank, mail, and wire fraud by two bankers he supervised. The court called Walgreens’ conduct in firing Mitri for exposing healthcare fraud “reprehensible.”Whistleblower Patrick McKillop shares an $8M whistleblower reward for filing a whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of the United States seeking to recover money from Iron Mountain, alleging fraud in overpricing under Iron Mountain’s government contract. In April, the European Union approved whistleblower protection rule. The court went on to dismiss the plaintiff’s Dodd-Frank claims, clarifying that Dodd-Frank only protects whistleblowers from retaliation for making external disclosures required by SOX (
The administration has worked hard in recent weeks to stigmatize the image of ... University of Pennsylvania, 05 November, 2019. Tyler Jackson’s whistleblower lawsuit alleged Medicare fraud by changing prescriptions and other acts. Michael Payne’s whistle blower award has not been announced.Melissa Church, one of three North Carolina Adventist Hospital employees who joined together to file a whistleblower lawsuit against Adventist and its Florida parent Adventist Health System, will share an as-yet undisclosed multi-million dollar whistle blower reward. According to the The federal trial court in Pennsylvania initially decided the former executive’s SOX whistleblower retaliation claims fell within the arbitration provision at issue, which directed all employment-related disputes to arbitration. Those iPads displayed the logo of the airline located in that particular concourse. Uncapping processors allows a server to use available computer capacity from other servers, which can increase a server’s vulnerability to cyberattacks.The whistleblower claimed that from 2012 until 2015, he repeatedly complained to his supervisor about security risks associated with the server’s performance problems, which could potentially implicate a SOX audit. Pharmacist Ameer spotted the scheme and filed a False Claims Act (whistleblower) lawsuit based on violation of the Kickback Statute to recover money for U.S. taxpayers and 29 state Medicaid programs. Life Care operates 200 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).Tenet Healthcare, recently exposed by whistleblower Ralph Williams, a subsidiary’s CFO, settled Ralph William’s False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit for $513 million. We report on Deparment of Justice FCA policy, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower efforts, corporate trickery underlying False Claims Act and other whistleblower cases, and citizen whistleblowers who stand up to power. In March, 2019, the SEC agreed to pay the whistleblowers $50 million. Dec 17, 2019 The government has just decided to intervene in a whistleblower’s False Claims Act lawsuit against Omnicare. of Justice, Whistleblowers Lyssa Towl and Terry Lee Fowler Will Receive Qui Tam Rewards Cumulatively Anticipated in the $3.6 Million Range as Healthcare Whistleblowers (Here Exposing Ineligible Billings re Hospice Care) Typically are Awarded About 20% of the Amount of Recovery in a Qui Tam Lawsuit. ... the CFTC added another $30 million whistleblower award. Jean Moore will collect a $825,000 cash reward as Mercy Health settled claims for $5.5 million.Jeffrey Mills, former DC school district employee filed a whistleblower lawsuit under Washington DC’s False Claims Act claiming food vendor Chartwells cheated the school district. Felt was Associate Director of the FBI who turned informant and helped bring down the Nixon Government. Dr. Harish Chandna’s whistle blower lawsuit alleged health care fraud. Citing to the company’s report to the SEC. In September, the CFTC also brought a lawsuit against JPMorgan traders, who were also the subject of criminal charges related to an allegedly years-long spoofing scheme.Since its whistleblower program launched in 2011, the CFTC has awarded whistleblowers more than $90 million for their assistance to the agency. Richard Forrest’s False Claims Act lawsuit led to an $8.5 million settlemet and a $1.3 million whistleblower award to Pharmasan’s Richard Forrest who blew the whistle on the company's fraudulent activities.Kelly Oxendine, a former employee of Health Corporation of America, filed a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit against HCA alleging Medicare healthcare billing fraud.