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August 03, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The nation’s top health care inspector is calling for aMedicare moratorium on new home health care agencies in Texas, where the largest number of companies are filing dubious claims, according to a report obtained by the Houston Chronicle. Nearly 40 percent of all home health care agencies or HHAs with suspicious billings came from Texas, according to […]
Learn MoreAugust 02, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
A whistleblower case against Adventist Health Systems/Sunbelt for over-billing Medicare and Medicaid and Tricare survived an important step in the legal system. On July 30th, a Florida federal judge refused to toss the False Claims Act case filed by the James Hoyer Law Firm. Judge Antoon refused to dismiss the case, saying that the relators […]
Learn MoreJuly 31, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – Two former high-ranking employees of facilities operations at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging them with conspiring to defraud NYPH, the Department of Justice announced. Former vice president of facilities operations, Santo Saglimbeni, and former director of facilities operations, Emilio “Tony” Figueroa, were charged in a four-count […]
Learn MoreJuly 27, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The manager of a Detroit-area health care clinic was sentenced today to serve 40 months in prison for his leading role in a $7.42 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced. Miami-area resident Alejandro Haber, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan in the Eastern […]
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July 26, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Pictured: Chris Hoyer, “Tony” Cabassa, Joan Boles, Tom DiFiore Tampa, FL – A Cy Pres Award from the James Hoyer Law Firm will make it possible for Bay Area Legal Services to continue helping low income homeowners facing foreclosure. The nearly $40,000 donation comes as the result of predatory lending matters handled by the firm. […]
Learn MoreJuly 13, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The life of a whistleblower takes a strong will and driving desire to make a difference. That was the case for Klye Lagow, a former housing appraiser with Countrywide Financial, who filed a lawsuit under seal in 2009 to expose what he saw as widespread appraisal fraud committed by the company. He had to keep […]
Learn MoreJuly 11, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
MIAMI — Firms that are paid tens of millions of dollars to root out Medicare fraud are bidding on contracts to investigate companies they are doing business with — sometimes their own parent companies, according to a government report released Tuesday. Two-thirds of the companies that bid on contracts during a nearly year-and-a-half time period […]
Learn MoreJuly 10, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Essentially, the Army designed a universal uniform that universally failed in every environment,” said an Army specialist who served two tours in Iraq, wearing UCP in Baghdad and the deserts outside Basra. “The only time I have ever seen it work well was in a gravel pit.” The specialist asked that his name be withheld […]
Learn MoreJuly 09, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Talk about a federal stimulus plan. The Securities and Exchange Commission has amassed a $452 million pot of cash to be paid out to fraud busters across the country, according to a recent report. The cash is part of the regulator’s whistleblower program, which marked its first anniversary this week. The pot of gold represents […]
Learn MoreJuly 03, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – An Asheville, N.C., resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for her role in a health care fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid in Miami and Hendersonville, N.C., announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the […]
Learn MoreJune 27, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Ward Diesel Filter Systems Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $628,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to federal agencies under a contract to provide diesel exhaust filtering systems for fire engines through the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule program, the Justice Department announcedtoday. Ward Diesel, which is […]
Learn MoreJune 21, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The Internal Revenue Service will review its tax whistle-blower program to improve its backlog and working practices, after the program came under fire from politicians and lawyers. The IRS will work with “internal and external stakeholders” on a “comprehensive review” of the agency’s guidelines and procedures for handling whistle-blower complaints, Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement Steven […]
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