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New Yorker Article on Whistleblowers Features Constantine Cannon

Posted  01/28/19
Silver whistle hanging on cord in front of chalkboard
In an article titled “The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing” published in the February 4, 2019, New Yorker magazine, Sheelah Kolhatkar describes the cases of two Constantine Cannon whistleblower clients, and features whistleblower attorney Mary Inman.  Focusing on False Claims Act cases involving fraud in the Medicare Advantage program, the article details how the FCA “effectively turned average citizens into a...

January 28, 2019

Partner Mary Inman and Constantine Cannon clients David Sewell & Benjamin Poehling featured in the New Yorker article, The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing.  Click here to read the article.

Top Ten Healthcare Recoveries of 2018

Posted  01/15/19
Consistent with the trend in prior years, the bulk of the Justice Department’s fraud and false claims recoveries in 2018 stemmed from healthcare fraud matters. And again, most of the funds recovered arose from cases originated by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. Here are the top ten healthcare recoveries of 2018 by the numbers:
    1. Amerisource Bergen Corporation - In...

Listen: Expected Dismissal of Providence Health Upcoding Suit

Posted  12/7/18
Constantine Cannon partner Mary Inman joins the RAC Monitor “Monitor Monday” podcast to comment on the government’s decision to decline to intervene in a $188.1 million whistleblower lawsuit Med Analytics, LLC filed against Providence Health (now known as Providence St. Joseph) alleging Providence upcoded diagnoses it submitted to government health programs for reimbursement. Several reports have indicated the...

Watch: “Taking Advantage” Highlights Medicare Risk Adjustment Fraud

Posted  11/2/18
Constantine Cannon partner Mary Inman and two Constantine Cannon whistleblower clients are featured in Episode 3 of the PBS series “Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work.” The episode investigates ”risk adjustment” in the Medicare Advantage program and practices by some of America’s largest insurance companies to make patients look sicker than they really are-which boosts payments to the insurance companies...

“Widespread and Persistent” Problems in Medicare Managed Care Burden Patients and Are Potential Violations of the False Claims Act

Posted  10/30/18
The federal government’s internal watchdog for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), has issued a report finding that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) have engaged in a “widespread and persistent” practice of inappropriately denying coverage for medical services to Medicare patientsIn addition, OIG has...

Overpayment Rule Decision Doesn't Imperil Risk Adjustment Cases: Mary Inman and Max Voldman in RAC Monitor

Posted  10/19/18
Dollars for Medicare
On September 7, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. vacated a single Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulation – the 2014 “overpayment rule.”  As Constantine Cannon whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman write in RAC Monitor, many Medicare Advantage Organizations have since made bold statements about the significance of this decision and its impact on the series of False Claims...

Despite MAOs’ Claims, Recent Decision Doesn’t Imperil DOJ and Whistleblower Risk Adjustment Fraud Cases

Posted  10/17/18
Whistleblower attorneys Mary Inman and Max Voldman published in RAC Monitor (Oct. 17, 2018).  Click here to read the article.

October 1, 2018

HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC, a DaVita entity, will pay $270 million to settle allegations arising from DaVita's collection and submission of diagnosis data for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries to whom DaVita provided healthcare services.  HealthCare Partners, an independent physician association, allegedly instituted practices that caused the submission of incorrect diagnosis codes - diagnosis codes that increased payments from CMS to the MAOs, and then from the MAOs to DaVita/HealthCare Partners.  DaVita had voluntarily disclosed some practices, including improper medical coding guidance provided to physicians.  In addition, a whistleblower, James Swoben, alleged in a False Claims Act qui tam case that HealthCare Partners had engaged in improper "one-way chart reviews," which added diagnosis codes identified from the review of patient charts, but did not delete previously-submitted diagnosis codes that were not supported by the patient charts. Swoben will receive a whistleblower reward of $10,199,100. DOJ

Constantine Cannon Partner Jessica Moore on Court’s Decision in Medicare Advantage Case

Posted  07/23/18
Becker’s Hospital Review published Four Key Takeaways From 9th Circuit’s Resurrection of the Silingo Medicare Advantage Case, written by Constantine Cannon partner Jessica T. Moore. In the article, Ms. Moore analyzes the Ninth Circuit’s July, 2018, ruling in U.S. ex rel. Silingo v. WellPoint, Inc., a case brought by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act alleging risk adjustment fraud in Medicare’s Part C...
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