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September 12, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, known for its care of sick children and annual telethons, is the focus of a recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit which alleges the hospital overpaid some of its doctors in violation of federal law. The case was profiled in this article by the Tampa Bay Times. Barbara Schubert, who […]
Learn MoreSeptember 10, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
America spent $2.6 trillion on health care last year; about one in every six dollars went into the health-care system. A third of that spending — a full $750 billion — did nothing to make anyone healthier. That’s the big takeaway from an Institute of Medicine report out Thursday, which looks at our big health-care spending problem. The […]
Learn MoreSeptember 06, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The government has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Hospice of the Comforter Inc. (HOTCI) alleging false Medicare billings, the Justice Department announced today. HOTCI provides hospice services to patients residing in the vicinity of Orlando, Fla. The Medicare hospice benefit is available for patients who elect palliative treatment (medical care focused on providing […]
Learn MoreSeptember 04, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 (UPI) — A California-based group of hospitals must pay $16.5 million to settle allegations the facilities were treating homeless people to defraud the government. Los Angeles Doctor’s Hospital Inc. — a subsidiary of Pacific Health Corp. — pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by paying “marketers” to recruit the […]
Learn MoreSeptember 04, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – A federal jury in New York City today convicted three former financial services executives for their participation in frauds related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts , the Department of Justice announced. Peter Ghavami, Gary Heinz and Michael Welty, all former UBS AG […]
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August 28, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
James Hoyer Associate Jillian Estes with Daniela. James Hoyer Associate Jillian Estes is making an impact with her pro bono work. The Florida Bar’s Young Lawyers Division profiled Estes’ successful work for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She volunteered to represent a father from Denmark, whose year 8-year-old daughter was being improperly […]
Learn MoreAugust 22, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – A Detroit-area social worker pleaded guilty for his role in a $3.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Justice Department, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. Gregory Lawrence, 54, of Detroit, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Victoria A. Roberts in the Eastern District of Michigan to […]
Learn MoreAugust 21, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Washington, D.C., Aug. 21, 2012 — A whistleblower who helped the Securities and Exchange Commission stop a multi-million dollar fraud will receive nearly $50,000 — the first payout from a new SEC program to reward people who provide evidence of securities fraud. The award represents 30 percent of the amount collected in an SEC enforcement action […]
Learn MoreAugust 20, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
overnment has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against Maple Grove-based Vascular Solutions alleging that the company improperly promoted a medical device for uses not specified on the product label. The whistleblower lawsuit claims that the alleged “off-label” promotion and other activities resulted in $20 million in damages to the federal government, according to the regulatory filing […]
Learn MoreAugust 14, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Testifying recently before a Senate panel, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner hailed progress in “repairing and reforming” the financial sector since the passage of the Wall Street reform act two years ago. Geithner’s sunny take sits awkwardly with the recent news that large international banks conspired to “fix” the LIBOR, the interbank loan rate, and that a […]
Learn MoreAugust 14, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – A Miami-area patient broker was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for recruiting Medicare beneficiaries as part of a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services announced. Jean-Luc Veraguas, 51, of Plantation, Fla., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederico A. Moreno […]
Learn MoreAugust 09, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A whistle-blower lawsuit based on insider information from a former Florida HospitalOrlando billing employee and a staff physician alleges that seven Adventist Health hospitals in Central Florida have overbilled the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in false or padded medical claims. The suit claims Florida Hospital used improper coding for more than a decade to […]
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