Whistleblower Law Insights

Upcoding of Medicare patient treatment appears to be a serious and widespread problem with hospital billing, a recent government report says, providing new urgency for whistleblowers to report fraudulent...

To bolster the Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower program, US Sen. Chuck Grassley has introduced the CFTC Fund Management Act. The CFTC whistleblower program “has grown at a much faster...

Fraud involving Covid-related funds, electronic health records, opioid prescriptions and kickbacks, and cybersecurity contracts are among the top False Claims Act enforcement priorities for the US Department...

The Supreme Court today declined to review lower court rulings on two cases involving “qui tam” whistleblower cases brought under the False Claims Act, including one that involves the issue of whether...

The recent settlement by electronic health records vendor athenahealthcare shows how whistleblowers are continuing to play a key role in exposing EHR kickbacks and fraud. Athenahealthcare Inc. agreed to...

Whistleblowers once again led the charge in the government’s fight against fraud in fiscal year 2020, with “qui tam” cases initiated by whistleblowers securing over 70% of the government’s $2.2...

Tax whistleblower could receive rewards and protection from job retaliation under an amendment to the District of Columbia False Claims Act that the District Council passed this month. The tax whistleblower...

Opioid giant Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty last week to fraud and kickback violations, cementing the power of the US False Claims Act and anti-kickback laws in fighting pharmaceutical companies’ corrupt...

eClinicalWorks’ electronic health records are once again raising patient safety concerns, despite a corporate integrity agreement that eCW made with the government as part of the settlement in a ground-breaking...

Last week, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services issued a special fraud alert to pharma companies and medical device makers with a stern warning: Consider dropping...