March 20, 2023
“DOJ Again Deploys FCA in Cybersecurity Case; Florida Medicaid Contractor Was Hacked”
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette Matzzie discusses the connection between a cybersecurity failure and the False Claims Act with the newsletter, Report on Medicare Compliance: To connect the dots between...
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March 08, 2023
UPMC Doc Can’t Get Surgery-Suit Whistleblower Sanctioned
Phillips & Cohen partner Jeffrey Dickstein told Law 360 of whistleblower Dr. D’Cunha: “Dr. D’Cunha stood up for patient safety. The government awarded Dr. D’Cunha $1.7 million...
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February 27, 2023
Hospital, top surgeon to pay $8.5 mln in whistleblower suit over simultaneous surgeries
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the head of its cardiothoracic surgery department have agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims that they fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid for complex...
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February 27, 2023
UPMC agrees to pay $8.5 million to settle whistleblower lawsuit filed by former surgeon
Phillips and Cohen partner Claire Sylvia spoke to Liz Kilmer of Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV to discuss Phillips and Cohen’s $8.5 million settlement against UPMC. “The regulation here is a billing...
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February 27, 2023
Hospital, top surgeon to pay $8.5 mln in whistleblower suit over simultaneous surgeries
Phillips and Cohen partner Jeffrey Dickstein discusses UPMC’s $8.5 million settlement with Reuters. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the head of its cardiothoracic surgery department...
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October 20, 2022
Whistleblowers Eye Clearer Path Following Supreme Court Denials
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette Matzzie explains to Bloomberg Law that since the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on what makes a complaint adequate, the status quo outcome provides...
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October 19, 2022
“Five Lessons from the Five Years Since the eClinicalWorks Settlement”
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette Matzzie writes in HIStalk about the key lessons and trends since Phillips & Cohen’s ground-breaking whistleblower lawsuit against electronic health records vendor...
September 19, 2022
IRS Funding Could Revive Flagging Whistleblower Program
Phillips & Cohen partner Edward “Ned” Arens tells Law 360 that the IRS’s whistleblower program could be revived with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act if it is used for adding...
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September 02, 2022
Honeywell’s Damages Success May Be Hard for Others to Repeat
Phillips & Cohen partner Claire Sylvia tells Bloomberg News that a recent federal appeals court ruling won’t change liability in whistleblower legal cases. Each defendant in an FCA case remains...
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June 21, 2022
The D.C. Circuit Tackles the False Claims Act’s government action bar
Last month, in a closely watched case, the D.C. Circuit resolved a dispute about a rarely invoked bar to certain whistleblower actions brought under the False Claims Act. In U.S. ex rel. Vt. Nat’l Tel....