Phillips & Cohen

Cook County, Illinois, has agreed to pay the federal government $5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the county mismanaged a federally funded study involving pregnant drug addicts. The lawsuit originated...

President Bush signed a new law that will allow whistleblowers who turn in tax cheats to share up to 30 percent of the recovery. Public Radio’s Marketplace ran a story on the new law on December...

A whistle-blower suit originally filed in 1995 is scheduled to go to trial in early 2007. The suit, filed under the qui tam provisions of the Federal False Claims Act, alleges that Bill Harbert International...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has sent a letter to State Medicaid agencies regarding the implementation of Section 6032 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171). This...

Oregon Imaging Center, a Eugene, radiology laboratory, has paid $510,000 to settle claims that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for radiology tests not ordered by treating physicians. This does not appear...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that an administrative audit, report or investigation prepared by a state entity qualifies as a public disclosure for purposes of barring...

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on December 5 in a case that pivots on a whistleblower’s standing to bring a False Claims Act suit when there has been a public disclosure of the information...

The December 3, 2006 issue of the New York Times includes a profile of Bobby L. Maxwell, the Interior Department auditor who filed a whistleblower suit alleging that Kerr-McGee, a major oil company, cheated...

Larkin Community Hospital in Miami and its current and former owners have paid $15.4 million to settle federal and Florida civil health care fraud claims against them. The Justice Department filed a False...

Amerigroup, a managed care provider, is seeking to reduce the damages awarded by a jury last month. The jury had found that Amerigroup discriminated against pregnant women in order to avoid paying for...