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Chuck Bates and Craig Patrick together filed a qui tam lawsuit alleging that their former employer, Kyphon Inc. – now Medtronic Spine LLC – had defrauded Medicare through a sales and pricing strategy...

Alaska Medical Assistance False Claim and Reporting Act All sections added by SLA 2016, ch. 25, § 18, eff. Sept. 19, 2016. Current through the 2018 Second Regular Session of the 30th Legislature.  ...

Gloria Pryor, Michael Payne and Melissa Church, former employees of an Adventist hospital in North Carolina, joined together to file a qui tam lawsuit alleging that Adventist Health System paid doctors...

Robert Baker alleged in a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit that Community Health System (CHS) was engaged in a scheme to improperly increase Medicaid payments to its three hospitals in New Mexico. CHS paid...

Phillips & Cohen represented Dr. Michael Mayes of South Carolina in a whistleblower lawsuit against three blood testing labs and a healthcare marketing company alleging that the labs and the marketing...

Overview of the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions The Dodd-Frank Act, formally known as the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is a major US financial regulatory law that created...

Qui tam is a provision under the False Claims Act that permits individuals and organizations to present evidence of wrongdoing in an attempt to help initiate prosecution by the United States Government...

Here are some questions whistleblowers often ask Phillips & Cohen lawyers about working with the law firm on a whistleblower case. 1) Can Phillips & Cohen represent me if I don’t live in the...

Whistleblowers (known as “relators”) are awarded a percentage of the money recovered by the government in a qui tam lawsuit. Phillips & Cohen has earned their clients more than $1 billion...

The Statute FEDERAL FALSE CLAIMS ACT 31 USC 3729-3733 (As amended July 21, 2010, P.L. 111-203) § 3729. False claims (a) Liability for certain acts. (1) In general. Subject to paragraph (2), any person...