Whistleblower Law Insights

Keystone Mercy Health Plan, a Philadelphia-based Medicaid managed-care insurer, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a benefits-claims dispute. The suit, which began as whistle-blower action under the...

A federal judge dismissed a group of False Claims Act suits that charged natural gas companies with underreporting their production on federal lands. The 73 cases, brought by a whistleblower under the...

St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center of Lincoln, Nebraska has paid the federal government and State of Nebraska $4 million to settle allegations that it knowingly failed to disclose and failed to return...

A federal jury found insurance company Amerigroup Corp. and an Illinois affiliate liable for discrimination by denying coverage to pregnant women. The jury awarded $48 million to the plaintiffs (including...

AIT Worldwide Logistic Inc., has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a whistleblower suit brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The suit alleged that the shipper provided illegal...

Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefit management company, has agreed to pay the United States $155 million plus interest to settle allegations that it defrauded federal health plans. The suit alleged...

Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator hired by the federal government to push its educational agenda, will pay $34,000 to settle False Claims Act charges. Williams admitted no wrongdoing in...

Northside hospital of Atlanta, Georgia, will pay $5.7 million to settle allegations that the hospital violated the False Claims Act. According to the suit, the hospital had improper financial and referral...

A whistleblower suit alleges that an Arkansas doctor defrauded Medicare and other federal health programs by performing unnecessary heart surgeries. The suit, which charges Doctor David Mark McCoy and...

Lourdes Perez, the owner of two of California’s largest home healthcare companies, has agreed to pay $33.8 million to settle federal charges that she defrauded Medicare and filed false tax returns...