Whistle Blower news from FierceHealthcare
NewsEx-employee claims hospital retaliated after blowing whistle on alleged fraud
Following her blowing the whistle on Wyoming Medical Center for alleged billing fraud, former employee Gale Bryden said the hospital fired her for providing officials with information, according to a Read more...
Gov't recovers record-high $2.8B in whistleblower fraud cases
Breaking records, the government has recovered an all-time high $2.8 billion in false claim cases with the help of whistleblowers, officials announced yesterday. In total, the Justice Department Read more...
Nurse faces jail-time for blowing whistle on doctor
A former administrative nurse at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas, will stand trial in Texas state court for a third-degree felony, "misuse of official information," after she wrote Read more...
Amerigroup may settle Medicaid fraud charges soon
An Illinois health plan which refused to enroll high-risk patients in its Medicaid plan may soon be settling a lawsuit brought by state and federal authorities, for a whopping $334 million. Read more...
Federal False Claims act uses narrowed, but legislators still want expansion
Things should get interesting in coming months when it comes to the application of the False Claims Act. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court recently narrowed the application of the Act--but Read more...
Department of Justice faces 500-case healthcare whistle-blower backlog
In theory, having scores of whistle-blowers file cases identifying cases of potential fraud is a good thing. However, a recent surge in such cases has so overwhelmed staff at the federal Department Read more...
Walgreens agrees to $35M drug-switching settlement
Walgreen Co. has agreed to pay $35 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations that it had switched patients to more expensive drugs to boost its Medicaid reimbursement. In the Read more...
DoJ joins whistle-blower suit against OH MDs, hospital
The U.S. Department of Justice has added its firepower to a whistle-blower lawsuit contending that a hospital in Cincinnati was rewarding cardiologists who generated the most revenue for the Read more...
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