Choosing the Best Whistleblower Lawyer is Vital for Successful Outcomes and Maximized Whistleblower Awards |
Posted: January 24, 2021 |
Medicare tries to ensure that its entities are filled with quality doctors and healthcare providers. However, Medicare fraud happens in a variety of forms, such as payment of kickbacks to physicians, inflation of drug prices to support higher provider reimbursements, failure to report a company’s true best practices to reduce rebates owed to government program, billing for durable medical equipment not legitimately prescribed by the physician, billing a higher code than the services actually performed, utilization of excluded providers, providing false or misleading information expected to influence a decision to discharge a patient, etc. Such fraudulent practices cost billions of dollars to the US taxpayers each year. Successful reporting of Medicare and Medicaid fraud may result in civil and criminal penalties, as well as recovery of collateral damages. Civil monetary penalties under the False Claims Act or FCA include more than $21,000 per claim, three times the number of damages sustained by the government, and also fine of up to $250,000 if the fraud is committed knowingly. Sanctions and collateral consequences of Medicare fraud include:
Criminal charges for Medicare fraud Criminal charges can apply to Medicare-fraud related matters when a person:
Whistleblowers, such as employees, vendors, suppliers, doctors, nurseries and pharmacy staff with insider knowledge of the fraudulent activities can help stop harmful practices that endanger the health and lives of Medicare and Medicaid patients. In addition, whistleblower lawsuit or Qui Tam claims can also be used to stop Medicare frauds involving TRICARE or the healthcare insurance program for the military. More than 10,000 qui tam lawsuits have been filed so far in which the best whistleblower attorneys have helped the government recover more than $40 billion that otherwise would have been lost to frauds. Whistleblowers have been awarded more than $6 billion in the whistleblower rewards. Protecting you from job retaliation The False Claims Act (FCA) also protects and incentivizes the whistleblowers that alert and report Medicare fraud to the government. In a successful Medicare fraud lawsuit, the whistleblower reporting Medicare fraud is entitled to part of the damages recovered by the government, as well as job protection. FCA provisions offer recourse to those who suffer job retaliation and discrimination at the workplace for reporting Medicare fraud. Damages are often tripled in FCA cases, and the experienced Medicare fraud lawyers can help you get anything from 15% to 30% of the total amount the prosecutors are able to recover from the wrongdoers. In many Medicare fraud cases, the ultimate issue is simply whether the individual acted willfully or not. Other issues may be much complex. The current government trend is to criminally charge physicians that allegedly perform healthcare services that are not medically necessary. There is also the provision of jail terms of up to 10 years for money laundering and Medicare fraud, and up to 20 years for conspiracy and bodily injury. However, while reporting Medicare fraud, it is important to blow the whistle the right way. A lot of documentation and complex litigation is involved in the procedure. If you fail to blow the whistle in the right way, you may not be able to win the case or earn your reward. Track record of success in whistleblower cases Medicare cases under the False Claims Act require a service provider knowingly committing a false claim or their involvement in the fraud. The Whistleblower lawyers at Brown LLC have significant experience in Medicare fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and Medicare actions. The team of whistleblower lawyers at Brown LLC is led by a former FBI Special Agent and Legal Advisor has had a track record of success in the number of qui tam cases as well as the total amount recovered. If you are aware of any Medicare or Medicaid fraud, or suspect one, or want to know the correct procedure of how to report Medicare fraud, contact Brown LLC, a leading whistleblower law firm with tens of millions in whistleblower recoveries. Their whistleblower lawyers will also protect you from retaliatory action such as demotion, unreasonable transfers, discrimination, dismissal, etc and the consultation is free. Brown, LLC protects whistleblowers who protect the integrity of the Medicare system.
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