With over 25 years of experience, the Healthcare Fraud Lawyers at Nolan, Auerbach & White have made their mark as the Healthcare Whistleblower Law Firm. If you’ve become aware of healthcare fraud, it’s time to take a courageous step, become a whistleblower, and call our Healthcare Fraud Attorneys today.
Nolan Auerbach & White has played a part in the recovery of over $2 billion collected and returned to taxpayers since the False Claims Act (FCU) was amended in 1986.
Contact the Healthcare Whistleblower Firm of Nolan, Auerbach & White to get started on a free and confidential review of your important case today.
Call our Healthcare Fraud Lawyers at 800-372-8304.
Private citizens play a critical role in reporting healthcare fraud. Under the qui tam provisions of the FCU, private citizens may be entitled to receive a percentage of the qui tam recovery. If you are aware of fraud within the healthcare industry, the law protects you as a whistleblower. We invite you to begin by scheduling a free review of your case today with our experienced Healthcare Fraud Lawyers. Contact us online or call us at 800-372-8304 to get started. Your interaction with our Healthcare Fraud Attorneys is confidential.
For more than 25 years, the Whistleblower Firm of Nolan Auerbach & White has contributed to the recovery of stolen taxpayer dollars due to Healthcare Fraud. Our past clients are heroes, having contributed to the recovery of over $2 billion to the government fisc since the FCA was amended in 1986. Our team of Healthcare Fraud Lawyers endeavor to provide our clients with every tool available in partnering with attorneys, investigators, Government attorneys, and Agencies to expose health care fraud.
Our whistleblower Healthcare Fraud Attorneys have represented clients in obtaining whistleblower awards recovered from companies that engage in fraudulent activities against the federal government. Whistleblower rewards vary from 15-30 percent of the amount collected.
Healthcare Fraud can be found in all segments of the healthcare industry and in every geographical area of the country. The three largest healthcare programs that the federal government funds are the Medicare Program, the Medicaid Program, and the TRICARE Program. Our whistleblower law firm can help when you’re ready to expose Healthcare Fraud and other violations of the FCA.
Medicare is a system of healthcare cost reimbursement established by federal statutes, and regulations issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services(HHS). Medicare helps pay for healthcare expenses for the disabled and individuals 65 years of age or older. Our team of Medicare Fraud lawyers are familiar with the many vulnerabilities of this system and are fully qualified to represent you to reportMedicare Fraud and other violations of the FCA. We’ll inform you of each step in the process when you begin a free and confidential case evaluation
Part A payments are made to institutional providers such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, etc., under the Prospective Payment System (PPS).
Part A False Claims Act violations often include:
Part B services provided by physicians, suppliers, and other healthcare providers are generally paid on the basis of a Medicare fee schedule. Under Part B, the Medicare beneficiary is responsible for any applicable deductible or coinsurance requirements. When services are covered under Part B, Medicare will use one of the two following methods of payment: (1) payment to the patient; (2) payment to the doctor (or supplier or other healthcare entity). This second method is known as the “assignment” method.
Part B violations of the FCU may include:
Contact our Healthcare Fraud attorneys today to report Medicare fraud.
Medicare beneficiaries may select a managed care plan certified under Medicare. Payments that Medicare makes to the managed care plan replace the amounts Medicare otherwise would have paid under traditional Medicare.
Part C violations of the FCU may include:
In the Medicare Part D plan, all Medicare beneficiaries get access to the Medicare drug benefit via private plans approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS). The drug benefit is offered through Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans and stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs). Part D is a market model that transfers risk to private plan sponsors, which then play the role of insurers for Part D benefits.
To discuss your options, contact a Healthcare Fraud Lawyer today to learn more.
Part D violations of the FCU may include:
For more on these types of violations, visit our Part D Medicare Fraud attorney page.
Medicaid is a joint federal-state entitlement program that provides healthcare for low-income people. Each state’s Medicaid program is administered through a specific state entity, and the program itself is not always called “Medicaid” per se. For instance, in California, the program is called “Medi-Cal.”
With traditional Medicaid, the states directly reimburse healthcare providers for services rendered. The state obtains the federal share of the payment from accounts that draw on funds of the United States Treasury. Medicaid is the second-largest healthcare program in the federal budget and the second-largest state spending item, surpassed only by elementary and secondary education. Most states also provide Managed Care Plans in lieu of traditional Medicaid, which Plans have substantially increased in Medicaid enrollment in recent years.
Medicaid Fraud can take many forms, including:
If you’ve become aware of any of these fraudulent activities, we encourage you to contact the experienced team of Medicaid Fraud Lawyers at Nolan, Auerbach & White. Our Whistleblower Healthcare Fraud Law Firm is ready to hear your important story.
TRICARE (f/k/a CHAMPUS) is the component agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that administers and supervises the healthcare program for certain military personnel and their dependents. TRICARE contracts with a fiscal intermediary that receives, adjudicates, processes, and pays healthcare claims submitted to it by TRICARE beneficiaries or providers.
Fraud against the TRICARE program can take many forms, including:
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Our Healthcare Fraud qui tam attorneys have the knowledge and experience to discuss in-depth areas of Healthcare Fraud. Other common types of fraudulent activity include:
Expose Healthcare Fraud through the qui tam lawsuit process, and join the many whistleblower heroes who have stepped forward and exposed violations of the law, taking a stand for justice and taxpayers in the healthcare industry. It could mean that you share a percentage of the funds recovered from fraudulent activity by working with one of our experienced Healthcare Fraud lawyers.
Get started by filling out our online form, or give our experienced team of healthcare fraud attorneys a call today at 800.372.8304.
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Under The FCU, first enacted under President Abraham Lincoln, the law provides for treble damages against anyone who, inter alia, knowingly submits a material false record (including fraudulent documents) or false claim to the United States. The FCU also provides for private citizens to file qui tam lawsuits, which allows private citizens to file sealed lawsuits in federal court that seek recovery of government money obtained in violation of the FCU. To learn more, contact our Healthcare Fraud Law Firm.
According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), most Healthcare Fraud relates to “fraudulent billing, such as billing for services that were not provided (about 43 percent of cases) and billing for services that were not medically necessary (about 25 percent).” A whistleblower attorney can help individuals file a qui tam lawsuit against companies engaged in Healthcare Fraud that violates the FCA.
Kathleen Hawkins, RN MSN, had been employed by Defendant, Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) for approximately 6 years when she decided she had had enough of trying to change the hospital system from within.
CHW, a California not-for-profit corporation that operated hospitals in California, Arizona, and Nevada, was at the time the eighth largest hospital system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California.
Joe Strom contacted us in 2005. We were very grateful that he did. We immediately formed an all-star legal team and a process to stop a very harmful pharmaceutical marketing strategy. It was this process we set into motion that ultimately returned hundreds of millions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury, and a portion of that, very well-deserved, into Joe’s bank account.
Joe told us a very troubling story about the off-label promotion of a pharmaceutical drug for patients who already suffered from chronic heart failure.
Bruce Moilan was a seasoned hospital systems expert by the time he contacted our Firm. At the time he decided to file his qui tam lawsuit, he was employed by South Texas Health System as a System Director for Materials Management. In this position, he oversaw $24 million in annual purchases of supplies and equipment and helped determine budget, reduction and cost analysis throughout the contract bidding and negotiations process. His job was to insure proper implementation for purchasing, receiving and management of inventory, for McAllen Hospitals, L.P.
