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September 16, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A major point of emphasis in nearly every discussion of bringing a qui tam case is filing the case as early as possible. Though there are several reasons for this, the most important is due to a part of the False Claims Act known as the “first-to-file bar.” In sum, the first-to-file bar creates a […]
Learn MoreSeptember 11, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The U.S. government has announced a settlement with the middleman at the center of a wide-ranging scheme to obtain defense contracts by circumventing the bidding process. Steven Stallings acted as a broker agent inappropriately securing government contracts for major defense contractor SAIC without going through required contract procedures. Stallings, who worked for the New Mexico […]
Learn MoreSeptember 09, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
“The Whistleblower Program is designed to aid the SEC’s efforts to protect investors from those who violate the securities laws by encouraging those who are aware of misconduct to come forward to report it to us so that prompt and effective action can be taken to prevent or stop the misconduct.” —Sean X. McKessy, Chief, […]
Learn MoreSeptember 09, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A Brooklyn, N.Y., resident pleaded guilty today for his role as a patient recruiter in a $13 million kickback and health care fraud scheme, the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the scheme based at the Cropsey Medical Care PLLC clinic in Brooklyn. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; […]
Learn MoreSeptember 06, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The owners and operators of several Miami home health care agencies and a patient recruiter pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Trust Care Health Services Inc. (Trust Care). Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. […]
Learn MoreSeptember 03, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A general understanding of Medicare billing and reimbursement can increase a healthcare whistleblower’s chances for success. It is not a requirement for a whistleblower to be a Medicare billing or reimbursement expert to bring a successful qui tam case involving fraud committed against a government healthcare program. However, knowledge of a defendant’s billing and reimbursement […]
Learn MoreSeptember 03, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
REPORT FROM THE US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE – HONOLULU – B Wahiawa General Hospital (“WGH”) of Honolulu, Hawaii, will pay $451,428.00 to settle two lawsuits alleging that WGH improperly billed the Medicare program, the State of Hawaii Medicaid program, and TRICARE, the federal health benefits program for military dependents. The settlement grew out of civil “whistleblower” […]
Learn MoreAugust 28, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., bank chairman pleaded guilty in federal court today to misleading federal investigators about his use of $381,000 in bank bailout funds to purchase a luxury condominium in Fort Myers, Fla. “At a time when many […]
Learn MoreAugust 28, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
New York-based Imagimed LLC, the company’s former owners, William B. Wolf III and Dr. Timothy J. Greenan, and the company’s former chief radiologist, Dr. Steven Winter, will pay $3.57 million to resolve allegations that they submitted to federal healthcare programs false claims for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services, the Justice Department announced today. Imagimed owns […]
Learn MoreAugust 26, 2013 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers are required to provide the government with “substantially all material evidence and information” in their possession upon filing a qui tam lawsuit. This assists the government in performing an early analysis of the merits of the case. As one would expect, the more compelling evidence of wrongdoing a whistleblower […]
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