Qui tam lawsuits have been used to stop many types of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This includes cost report fraud, billing for unnecessary medical services and billing for services never provided.
Phillips & Cohen attorneys have represented whistleblowers in a wide range of successful qui tam cases against hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical labs, doctor practice groups and other healthcare providers for Medicare fraud. Below is a selective list of those cases and news articles written about them.
There are many ways that a defense contractor can defraud the government. For instance, it could charge time it spends working on a commercial contract to a government contract, or it could build products for the government using cheaper products that the government hasn’t authorized and billing the government for the more expensive parts.
Here is a list of articles about some of the qui tam cases brought against defense contractors by attorneys Phillips & Cohen.
