Standard False Claims Act Policies Include: The organization will abide by all federal and state laws to effectively implement and enforce procedures to detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse in receiving payments from federal health care programs. ...
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The Supreme Court declined to clarify how false claims should be verified under the False Claims Act, which could draw out some related healthcare cases, legal experts said.
Helmer, Martins, Tate & Garrett Co., LPA is the nation's most experienced law firm representing qui tam whistleblowers in a wide range of False Claims Act and other whistleblower cases.
government, then theHealthcare, Government Contracts and Grantis generally eligible for a financial reward – usually between 15% and 30% of the amount recovered. False Claims Act laws also prohibit whistleblower retaliation and provide a robust set of remedies to whistleblowers who suffer on the...
“small business concerns” under the CARES Act. According to the government, the company in fact had over 3,000 employees, it knew when it made the certifications that it was ineligible for the loan program, and the government later forgave the loan. The settlement resolved claims brought in...
Steward Health Care System has reached a $4.7 million settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying physicians for services they did not provide.
Healthcare digitization, including increased use of telehealth and EHR has led to a higher volume of healthcare fraud and False Claims Act cases, according to lawyers from Hogan Lovells.
Thirty-five years ago, Congress ushered in the modern era of False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement when it enacted the False Claims Amendments Act of 1986. At the time, the FCA was a seldom-enforced statute that resulted in government recoveries each year counted in the tens of millions....
On February 28, the government announced that the Texas-based skilled nursing facility, Providence Park, Inc., (DBA Ascension Living Providence Village) and acute care hospital, Ascension Providence, (FKA Providence Health Services of Waco), settled allegations that t...