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Whistleblower News from the Inside — July 1, 2015

Posted  07/1/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team SEC Announces Cherry-Picking Charges Against Investment Manager – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against a Wisconsin-based investment advisory firm and its owner accused of improperly allocating to his personal and business accounts certain options trades that appreciated in value during the course of a trading day while allocating to his...
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In Their Own Words -- Mizer

Posted  06/30/15

-- “Today’s [VMWare and Carahsoft] settlement demonstrates that … government contractors who seek to profit improperly at the expense of taxpayers face serious consequences.” 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division, commenting on the $75.5 million VMWare and Carahsoft  settlement.  Click here for more.

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Whistleblower News from the Inside - June 30, 2015

Posted  06/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team VMWare and Carahsoft agree to pay $75.5m to settle whistleblower case – The settlement will resolve allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act by misrepresenting their commercial pricing practices and overcharging the government on VMware software products and related services.  DOJ VA whistleblowers urge Obama to fire inspector general – A group of...
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June 30, 2015

The FTC is mailing checks totaling approximately $4 million to consumers who lost money to a debt collection operation that extorted payments from them using false threats. In May 2014, the FTC settled charges against Asset Capital and Management Group, which, under various names, illegally extracted payments from consumers for credit card debt the defendants had purchased from creditors. The settlement order banned the defendants from the debt collection industry. FTC

June 29, 2015

New York announced a settlement with pharmacy Trinity Homecare LLC that returns $2.5 million to the state’s Medicaid program. A whistleblower filed a lawsuit in 2009 alleging that Trinity pushed infusion drugs, which are prescribed to manage symptoms, to hemophilia patients and presented claims to Medicaid for unneeded or excessive quantity of these drugs. The whistleblower alleged improper billing for drug deliveries, including ones that patients refused to accept and excess shipments. In at least one instance, these expensive drugs were allegedly left outside a patient’s home without signature by the patient. NY

Tagged in: FCA State, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicaid, Whistleblower Case,

In Their Own Words -- Hawley and James

Posted  06/29/15

-- “At a time that the Prime Minister is seeking international leadership on corruption, the UK can ill afford to be seen to be slow on the uptake with corruption allegations or indeed less proactive than its international partners in responding to whistleblowers."

Corruption Watch Policy Director Susan Hawley and the Chief Executive of the whistleblower charity Public Concern at Work Cathy James, in a letter to UK...

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Whistleblower News from the Inside -- June 29, 2015

Posted  06/29/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Call for urgent UK government review of Compass Group whistleblower case -- Two prominent whistleblower advocacy groups are calling on the UK Home Secretary to conduct an urgent review of how a whistleblower’s allegations of corruption at Compass Group are being investigated, claiming UK prosecutors only became interested in the case after prompting by the FBI. 
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Doctors Be Warned: DOJ Steps Up Enforcement of Anti-Kickback Law Against Individual Medical Professionals

Posted  06/29/15
The Department of Justice has recovered millions of dollars from hospitals, nursing homes, pharmaceutical companies and other medical providers through civil and criminal enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Law.  But the agency has begun paying increased attention to the doctors, nurses and administrative professionals on the receiving end of these bribes. The Anti-Kickback Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b) makes it...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Healthcare Fraud, Provider Fraud,

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In Their Own Words -- Hart

Posted  06/27/15

-- “There has never been a time, however, when the government of the United States was so perversely and systematically dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side deals, log-rolling, vote-trading, and sweetheart deals of one kind or another.”

Former US Senator Gary Hart on this "age of vanity politics and campaigns-for-hire." Click here for more.

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Medicare Part C: Fighting Back Against Risk Adjustment Fraud

Posted  06/26/15
Health insurance companies that participate in the Medicare Managed Care program (also known as Medicare Advantage or Medicare “Part C”) routinely complain about cuts to their reimbursement rates – even in years, like this one, where the reimbursement rates are actually increased.  At the same time, reports indicate that insurers are “leaning heavily on their Medicare business” and “signal[ing their]...

Tagged in: Healthcare Fraud, Managed Care, Risk Adjustment Fraud,

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