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Last week, Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM) agreed to pay $90 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging fraudulent Medicare Part D bids. The lawsuit, filed by Phillips ...
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force, a partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General and the Justice Department, works to quash the schemes.
A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars ...
The U.S. Justice Department publicly praised Robert Merena for his "cooperation and support" in helping the government collect the largest settlement ever involving a whistle-blower lawsuit. [2] The SmithKline settlement is considered to be one of the largest whistleblower assisted recoveries in the history of the United States. [3]
Since 1986, whistleblowers have been in the forefront of the government's war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion, or more than 70%, of the $75 billion recovered from swindlers on defense ...
In 2014, whistleblowers filed over 700 False Claims Act lawsuits. [21] In 2014, the Department of Justice had its highest annual recovery in False Claims Act history, obtaining more than $6.1 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government. [4]
Alfredo Ruiz of Miami, who was convicted of conspiring to launder about $4.5 million that Medicare paid to two companies in 2019, was arrested by federal agents at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.