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What are whistleblower rewards? Whistleblowers (known as “relators” in qui tam lawsuits) are awarded a whistleblower reward based on a percentage of the money recovered by the government when...

What is the False Claims Act? The False Claims Act, also known as the “Lincoln Law,” is a whistleblower law that allows private citizens to sue any individuals, companies or other entities...

What is the Stark Law? The Stark Law, formally known as the Physician Self-Referral Law, broadly makes it illegal for physicians to refer Medicare patients for certain “designated health services”...

Chuck Bates and Craig Patrick together filed a qui tam lawsuit alleging that their former employer, Kyphon Inc. – now Medtronic Spine LLC – had defrauded Medicare through a sales and pricing strategy...

The Alaska whistleblower law, the Alaska Medical Assistance False Claim and Reporting Act, formerly allowed whistleblowers to file qui tam lawsuits against those who defrauded the state Medicaid program....

Gloria Pryor, Michael Payne and Melissa Church, former employees of an Adventist hospital in North Carolina, joined together to file a qui tam lawsuit alleging that Adventist Health System paid doctors...

Robert Baker alleged in a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit that Community Health System (CHS) was engaged in a scheme to improperly increase Medicaid payments to its three hospitals in New Mexico. CHS paid...

Phillips & Cohen represented Dr. Michael Mayes of South Carolina in a whistleblower lawsuit against three blood testing labs and a healthcare marketing company alleging that the labs and the marketing...

What is the Dodd-Frank Act? The Dodd-Frank Act, formally known as the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is a major US financial regulatory law that created whistleblower reward programs at...

Alaska Medical Assistance False Claim and Reporting Act Alaska Stat. § 09.58.010 False claims for medical assistance; civil penalty (a) A medical assistance provider or medical assistance recipient may...