Whistleblower Law Insights

United Healthcare Insurance Company will pay the United States $3.5 million to settle charges that it knowingly mishandled phone inquiries from Medicare beneficiaries and providers. The company allegedly...

A whistle blower lawsuit brought by a former Gambro Healthcare medical officer has resulted in a settlement of over $350 million. The suit alleged that the operator of renal dialysis clinics paid kickbacks...

The Wall Street Journal reported on December 6, 2004 that the Justice Department is investigating allegations that Medco Health Solutions made an offer of more than $200 million in kickbacks to UnitedHealth...

Polymedica Corporation and two of its subsidiaries will pay the United States $35 million to resolve allegations that they submitted claims to Medicare without proper documentation. The improper reimbursement...

A group of faculty practice corporations affiliated with Loma Linda University has paid the United States $2.2 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare. At teaching hospitals...

Jim Alderson, a whistle blower who reported Medicare fraud by the health care giant Columbia/HCA, was profiled in an Associated Press story. Alderson was the chief financial officer at a hospital in Montana...

Maxwell Manor nursing home of Chicago has agreed to settle a False Claims Act suit alleging that they billed the government for inadequate or worthless services. Abuse and neglect was said to be pervasive...

Perini Corporation, a Massachusetts-based construction contractor, will pay the United States $998,500 to resolve claims that the company inflated its request for compensation for delays in construction....

TBC Products, an indirect subsidiary of drug wholesaler McKesson Corp., has agreed to plead guilty to attempting to obstruct a federal audit. It will pay $7.4 million as a fine and civil settlement. Federal...

Diebold has agreed to pay the state of California $2.6 million to settle claims that it falsely certified the security of its electronic voting machines, misleading six counties into buying the machines....