Resources

Telemedicine fraud has long been a concern, but whistleblowers are needed now more than ever during the coronavirus crisis as the opportunities for Medicare fraud in telehealth cases have greatly expanded...

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...

Why be a whistleblower for the SEC? Whistleblowers who report wrongdoing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may receive a reward if government enforcement agencies recover more than $1 million...

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...

What is the False Claims Act? The False Claims Act, also known as the “Lincoln Law,” is a whistleblower law that allows private citizens to sue any individuals, companies or other entities...

What is the Stark Law? The Stark Law, formally known as the Physician Self-Referral Law, broadly makes it illegal for physicians to refer Medicare patients for certain “designated health services”...

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...

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...