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April 28, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Jan Brown with 13th Judicial Circuit Court Judges Catherine McEwen and Emily Peacock It was a proud moment for the James Hoyer Law Firm as paralegal Jan Brown was named the very 1st recipient of the Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Paralegal Award in Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Jan graciously accepted the award at […]
Learn MoreApril 23, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Department of Justice announced today that Amedisys Inc. and its affiliates have agreed to pay $150 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false home healthcare billings to the Medicare program. Amedisys, a Louisiana-based for-profit company, is one of the nation’s largest providers of […]
Learn MoreApril 22, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A long-time advocate of whistleblowers, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is once again taking steps to increase whistleblower protections. On the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, Senator Chuck Grassley is announcing his plans to create a Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus. Grassley said he’s creating the caucus to build a coalition of like-minded Senators […]
Learn MoreApril 17, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Department of Justice announced today that CRC Health Corp. (CRC) has agreed to pay $9.25 million to the federal government and the State of Tennessee to settle allegations that CRC knowingly submitted false claims by providing substandard treatment to adult and adolescent Medicaid patients suffering from alcohol and drug addiction at its facility in […]
Learn MoreApril 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
MONTPELIER — At the suggestion of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, Senate lawmakers will introduce false claims legislation next week targeted at preventing fraud in the state’s health care system. “As we’re moving to a world where the state’s role in health care is greatly expanded, ensuring that Vermont has the tools to protect its […]
Learn MoreApril 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Washington D.C., April 4, 2014 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the whistleblower who received the first award under the agency’s new whistleblower program will receive an additional $150,000 payout after the SEC collected additional funds in the case. The whistleblower, who the SEC did not identify in order to protect confidentiality, […]
Learn MoreApril 03, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Pennsylvania and Vermont student-loan agencies must face false-billing claims brought in 2007 by a former U.S. Education Department employee, a federal appeals court ruled, reviving the whistle-blower lawsuit. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. aren’t subject to sufficient state control to protect them from suits under the U.S. False Claims […]
Learn MoreMarch 31, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Burned by its failure to catch the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, despite years of warnings from a tipster, the Securities and Exchange Commission couldn’t say no when Congress ordered it to pay whistleblowers. There’s little love in official Washington for the Edward Snowden kind that takes secrets to the media. But people who turn in […]
Learn MoreMarch 24, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
RALEIGH – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas G. Walker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced jointly that Duke University Health System, Inc. (Duke University Health System) has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations under the U.S. and North Carolina False Claims Acts that it made […]
Learn MoreMarch 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided whistleblower protections apply not just to publicly traded companies but also to subcontractors that do business with them. The justices voted 6-3 along non-ideological lines in a ruling that extends whistleblower protections to investment advisers, law firms, accounting firms and other such businesses working for public companies. The court […]
Learn MoreMarch 18, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
American Family Care will pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was appropriate. American Family Care is a network of walk-in medical clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with offices in Alabama, Tennessee […]
Learn MoreMarch 13, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A federal jury in Houston today convicted two owners of a former Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care P.A. (Spectrum), several of its employees and the owners of certain Houston group care homes for their participation in a $97 million Medicare fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal […]
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