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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 ...
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 ...
[citation needed] Resnick has been involved in suing Omnicare, a supplier of drugs to nursing homes, under federal whistleblower law, as well as the parties to the company's alleged kickback schemes. Resnick filed suit to punish Omnicare for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Omnicare allegedly paid kickbacks to nursing home operators in order to ...
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 ...
More than two dozen whistleblower lawsuits, some dating back more than a decade, have accused Medicare health plans of overcharging the government by billing for medical conditions not supported ...
As of 2019, over 71% of all FCA actions were initiated by whistleblowers. [4] Claims under the law have typically involved government health care programs (Medicare, Medicaid and TriCare), military, or other government spending programs. FCA actions dominate the list of largest pharmaceutical settlements. Between 1987 and 2019, the government ...
Stolen IDs, electronic billing and the growth of telemedicine have caused Medicare fraud to spike and spread, with South Florida accounting for more than half of all criminal cases in U.S.
Whistleblowers acting under the FCA are the primary enforcement tool used by the U.S. Department of Justice to target fraud, including overbilling to government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare. [129] American whistleblower Edward Snowden