Year: 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Phillips & Cohen LLP is representing Common Cause in a whistleblower case filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week that says the American Legislative Exchange...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The whistleblower whose False Claims Act case against a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) settled for about $37 million said he was pleased with the...

In a recent Forbes blog post, Phillips & Cohen attorney Erika Kelton tells of students who did an off-the-cuff cost/benefit analysis of Medicaid fraud and decided it might be a good way to get rich...

Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire has signed a Medicaid fraud false claims act. The act includes a qui tam provision, which will allow private citizens who discover fraud involving the state’s...

PLANO, TX – Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its parent company, Cypress Pharmaceutical Inc., have paid the federal government and certain states a total of $2.8 million to settle a whistleblower...

Mandatory percentage awards, protection of whistleblowers’ identities, and encouragement of reporting through internal compliance programs are among the elements of a successful whistleblower program...

New York State had been off to a good start in cracking down on health care fraud. The New York Times reports that efforts under former Gov. George Pataki resulted in $1.5 billion in overpayments being...

The Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has developed a Compliance 101 page to help health care providers, practitioners, and suppliers understand the health care fraud and...

Although it attracted little fanfare when it was passed 25 years ago, the False Claims Act has proven to be a successful weapon in fighting fraud against the government. The Dept. of Justice will host...

WASHINGTON, DC – A whistleblower law passed 25 years ago to little fanfare has helped the government recover more than $30 billion and become the government’s most successful weapon in the...