May 14, 2013 — The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 established an IRS Whistleblower Office to make it easier for tipsters with information about tax fraud to notify the IRS and receive compensation. Under the Act, whistleblowers may receive anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the amount collected by the IRS based on an informant’s information. To be eligible for a reward based on...
May 13, 2013 — The U.S. Justice Department relies on the False Claims Act to combat Medicare fraud and return millions of dollars each year to American taxpayers. The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act enable employees with medical equipment suppliers who become aware of fraudulent Medicare schemes to sue those involved for the benefit of the government. Informants keep a share of...
May 10, 2013 — The False Claims Act prohibits drug makers, pharmacies and health care providers from billing federal healthcare programs for drugs prescribed or sold as a result of an illegal kickback scheme. When pharmaceutical companies pay kickbacks to pharmacies, doctors, hospitals or long-term care providers as a way to increase drug sales, and then pass through the cost of the...
May 9, 2013 — It is a violation of the False Claims Act to bill federal healthcare programs for medications prescribed or sold as part of an illegal kickback scheme. Medicare fraud hurts taxpayers and it hurts drug maker employees as well. Kickback scams require pharmaceutical sales reps and pharmacy workers to participate in fraudulent schemes or to look the other way. Honest employees who...
May 8, 2013 — The IRS Whistleblower Office, established by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, authorizes whistleblowers with information about tax fraud to notify the government and receive a reward. Under the Act, government collaborators may receive anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the amount the government collects based on a tipster’s information. To receive a reward...
May 7, 2013 — The False Claims Act allows the federal government to fight all sorts of fraud, including fraud in the payment of government contractors who are supposed to be helping to clean up environmental disasters — like the Tar Creek mining site in Oklahoma. The whistleblower statute’s qui tam provisions enable insider employees and others to file a lawsuit for the benefit of the...
May 6, 2013 — The Department of Justice has long relied on the federal False Claims Act to fight government contractors’ fraudulent scams against the American taxpayers. Under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provisions, government contractor employees who discover fraudulent schemes against the government are empowered to file suit against the wrongdoers and retain a share of any monies...
May 3, 2013 — The IRS Whistleblower Office, put in place by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, gives whistleblowers with knowledge of tax fraud a way to notify the government and collect a reward. Under the Act, government informants are entitled to anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of the amount collected by the government as a result of a tipster’s information. To be eligible for a...
May 2, 2013 — When health care providers are engaged in Medicare fraud or other misconduct that violates the False Claims Act, the Act authorizes insider employees and other tipsters to file suit on behalf of the government and retain a portion of anything collected through the legal action. Informants generally receive anywhere from 15 to 25 percent of the recovery.
Utah Health Care...May 1, 2013 — The Department of Justice relies on the federal False Claims Act to fight Medicare and Medicaid fraud and to return millions of dollars to American taxpayers each year. Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, health care workers and other private individuals who learn about fraudulent schemes against federal healthcare programs are authorized to sue the...
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