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November 20, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Nov 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it had sued KBR Inc, accusing the company and a Kuwaiti subcontractor of improperly charging the federal government for the costs of delivering and installing trailers for troops in Iraq. The filing of the lawsuit came days after the Justice Department dropped a similar […]
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November 20, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
John Allman – Investigator Many of the investigators at the James Hoyer Law Firm have strong backgrounds as investigative journalists. That’s because every case has facts that need to be uncovered and a story that must be told, and investigative journalists have a unique ability to do both in a powerful way. James Hoyer investigator […]
Learn MoreNovember 19, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON—Two former patient recruiters for Miami-based mental health clinic Biscayne Milieu Health Care Inc. were sentenced today for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. […]
Learn MoreNovember 14, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
With a Senate vote Tuesday, Congress gave final approval to legislation strengthening protections for federal whistleblowers. The measure, which advocates have been pushing for more than a decade, now goes to President Obama for his signature. The legislation is designed to protect employees who expose government wrongdoing from retaliation by supervisors. The Office of Special […]
Learn MoreNovember 14, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
By Chad TerhuneNovember 13, 2012, 10:48 a.m. Medicare paid $1.5 billion in improper claims for skilled nursing care in 2009, federal investigators found. The inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that 25% of all Medicare claims submitted by skilled nursing facilities had errors and the majority of those bills were “upcoded” for […]
Learn MoreNovember 05, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Freeman Health System, a healthcare provider and hospital system located in Joplin, Mo., has agreed to pay $9,316,139 to resolve allegations that it violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act by knowingly providing incentive pay to physicians in a manner that violated federal law, the Justice Department announced today. The Stark Law forbids […]
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November 02, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Sean Estes, Jesse Hoyer & Ian MacAlister after the race. James Hoyer Associates Jesse Hoyer and Sean Estes, along with another Tampa attorney Ian MacAlister, were among more than 23,000 runners who finished this year’s Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Virginia. It was the largest participation for the event in its 37 year history. Jesse, […]
Learn MoreNovember 01, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
The United States has filed a complaint against a Virginia-based contractor alleging that the company submitted false claims for unqualified security guards under a contract to provide security in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. The company, Triple Canopy Inc. is headquartered in Reston, Va. In June 2009, the Joint Contracting Command in Iraq/Afghanistan (JCC-I/A) […]
Learn MoreOctober 31, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
BALTIMORE — Medicare‘s war on fraud is going high-tech with the opening of a $3.6 million command center that features a giant screen and the latest computer and communications gear. That’s raising expectations, as well as some misgivings. The carpeting stills smells new at the facility, which went live a week ago in a nondescript commercial office […]
Learn MoreOctober 29, 2012 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Detroit today convicted a physician, a home health agency owner and a patient recruiter for their participation in a $14.5 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan; Robert […]
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