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Here’s some of the latest news regarding Whistleblowers.
Hospital Self-Discloses False Claims violations, will pay $17.3 million.
Former chief compliance officer reports Stark Act and Anti-Kickback Statute violations, will collect over $5 million.
Kickbacks, Free Staff, and Inflated Payments: Sutter Health’s Path to Stark Law Violations
Former chief compliance officer reports Stark Act and Anti-Kickback Statute violations, will collect over $5 million.
Doctor Calls It a 'Game,' Patients Call It Deadly: Inside the Asante fraud settlement.
Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Nicholas Engstrom blew the whistle on Asante Health System's fraudulent billing practices, exposing unnecessary surgeries, overbilling, and Medicare fraud.
Wheeling and Dealing: The $100 million turnaround based on Stark and Anti-Kickback violations
Executive Vice President of Wheeling Hospital reveals Stark Law and Anti-Kickback violations, leading to $50 million settlement.
Licensed to bill? Nursing home fails to provide hot water or dispose of solid waste (gross); will pay $7 million.
Unlicensed nursing home allegedly loses hot water, doesn't dispose of waste, and fails to provide medicine on time. Will pay over $7 million
False Positives, Real Consequences: The Scary Reality of Faulty Lab Results
Former lab director describes shortcuts taken at drug testing facility.
Concurrent Surgeries: Heart surgeons play musical chairs with patients’ lives, pay $15 million.
Whistleblower received over $3 million for reporting concurrent surgeries that endangered patients' lives.
From RUGs to Riches: Nursing home whistleblowers show how a RUG score can show fraud.
Whistleblowers identify RUG fraud scheme and collect over $4 million.
Singing the upcoding blues: Assisted living provider to Pay $14.9M to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act lawsuit
Whistleblower receives over $2 million for exposing upcoding scheme at assisted living facility.
Missed Opportunities: $50 Billion Medicare Fraud
Medicare's $50 Billion Scam: A Missed Whistleblower Windfall
Rogue Referrals: Whistleblowers uncovers Admera’s Anti-Kickback violations; will collect almost $1 million.
Uncovering illegal referral scheme nets whistleblowers almost $1 million
Not brain surgery: neurologist settles Stark Law claims, will pay $1.8 million.
Money over medicine = Stark Law claim.
Kickbacks to Fix Backs: Spinal implant company Innovasis pays $12 million to settle Anti-Kickback claims
Kickbacks to fix backs: spinal company settles Anti-Kickback claims.
From Test to Testimony: How a patient blew the whistle on CityMD’s $12 million COVID scam.
Whistleblower, a former patient, earns over $2 million.