Whistleblower Law Insights

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee has filed a False Claims Act suit against Diversified Health Management, Incorporated (Diversified), James W. Carell (the company’s...

Queen’s Medical Center of Honolulu, Hawaii has paid a total of $2.5 million to settle two whistleblower suits that alleged overbilling of the Medicare program, the State of Hawaii Medicaid program,...

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) has agreed to pay the United States $2 million to settle a whistleblower suit that alleged its hospital violated the False Claims Act. The...

The federal government has accused California mortgage lender Capmark Finance Inc. of violating the False Claims Act. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Justice Department charges...

Three HealthEast hospitals in the St. Paul, Minnesota, area have agreed to pay the federal government a total of $2.28 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud involving a certain...

Texas nursing home chain Regency Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers will pay the federal government $4 million to resolve allegations it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The Justice Department...

Aventis Pharmaceutical agreed to pay $95.5 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by misreporting drug prices, the Dept. of Justice announced on May 28. The government said Aventis...

President Obama has signed the Fraud Enforecment and Recovery Act into law. In his signing statement, the President stressed the importance of safeguarding the “precious taxpayer dollars” needed...

The Dept. of Justice announced on May 1 that it has intervened in a whistleblower suit against two former suppliers to the National School Lunch Program for submitting false claims to the Dept. of Agriculture....

The United States and 16 states have joined in two whistleblower suits that allege that Wyeth, a drug manufacturer, Wyeth, failed to pay rebates they were required to make to the Medicaid program. Two...