The bureaucrats' response to these revelations: "HCFA, though, says it's satisfied with the educational level of the carrier personnel who review claims" (ibid.).This GAO report was requested because a "whistleblower," Theresa Burr...
… (4) A retired lady told me she had burning and itching skin on her chest and that she was in a lot of pain. I asked her if I could see it. It covers a large area between her breasts and underneath her bra line. She said it i...
On top of these profits come the costs of preventing and combating fraud. Because private insurance companies resist paying and Medicare pays a small fraction of the medical charges, private health-care providers charge as much as they possibly can, knowing that the payments will be cut to the...
Finally, the FCA deputizes any individual with knowledge of alleged false claims to sue defendants on the government's behalf and "under seal." This means, at least initially, that the defendants do not know the claim exists and the whistleblower's identity is secret. Most typi...
A health care provider bills Medicare for services that were not performed or were unnecessary, or; A grant recipient charges the Government for costs not related to the grant. Types of Fraud Prosecuted Under the FCA It is impossible to list all of the frauds that have been prosecuted under...
Identifying a false claim is seldom straightforward, so a False Claims Act casefilingmay take a variety of forms. Generally, however, there are three main elements seen in everyfalse claimcase: 1). a claim made by an individual or 2) for government money or funds and 3) which is somehow...
The False Claims Act is a United States federal law which provides penalties for knowingly cheating the government through fraudulent billing practices, overstating the quantity of goods shipped and billed, or knowingly providing inferior products. The law includesqui tam, or whistleblower provisions,...
I am particularly interested in the whole concept of being ‘anti-‘ or a ‘denier’, or a sceptic. I think in great part this is due to constant attacks I have had to put up with because of my views of cholesterol and statins. I am often called a statin
Whistleblower Lawsuit! Government Medicare Data Shows 48,465 DEAD Following COVID Shots – Remdesivir Drug has 25% Death Rate!Mockers of Anti-Vaxxers Continue to Die After Taking a COVID-19 InjectionSTUDY: Government’s Own Data Reveals that at Least 150,000...
What’s most interesting about this update is that it’s a sort of one-two punch, coming on the heels of yet another data breach in September, which affected 50 million users. If any of those profiles were scraped and used in sites, Facebook would (theoretically) automatically demote the...