Whistleblower Law Insights

The Inspector General for the Dept. of Health and Human Services has created a page on its website that collects information about state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs). State MFCUs investigate and...

The Washington Post reports that Scott J. Bloch, the Bush-era director of a federal office in charge of protecting government whistleblowers from unfair treatment, will plead guilty to withholding information...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) recovered more that $283 million in 2009. The unit also obtained 148 criminal convictions related...

Governor Martin O’Malley has signed the Maryland False Health Claims Act, introduced as Senate Bill 279. The Governor’s press release says that the new legislation will allow Maryland to recover...

The Securities & Exchange Commission has had a bounty program for whistleblowers in place since 1989, but has made only five payments for a total of $159,537. A report from the SEC’s Inspector...

A federal judge in Nashville has found that Fresenius, the parent company of Renal Care Group, violated the False Claims Act, the Nashville Business Journal and the Tennessean reported. The judge ordered...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) includes a provision that clarifies the False Claims Act’s definition of “public disclosure.” In section 10104 of the...

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton will pay $6.35 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud raised in two whistleblower suits, the Dept. of Justice reported. The suits had alleged that...

Alpharma, a subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, will pay $42.5 million to resolve allegations that it improperly marketed the morphine-based drug Kadian. The Justice Department’s press release outlined...

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has issued its quarterly report, outlining its efforts to prevent fraud, waste and abuse in the use of stimulus funds. The funds, which were authorized...