Tenet Healthcare – the Most Despicable Name in Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare is in the news again. And the news isn’t very good. Yesterday’s headline in the Atlanta Business Chronicle was “Tenet Healthcare Agrees to Plead Guilty in Atlanta Kickback Scheme.”...
View ArticleJanesville (WI) Pharmacist Arrested for Medicare Fraud
A well known pharmacist in Janesville, Wisconsin was arrested and charged with 46 counts of Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Federal agents with the Department of Health and Human Services charged...
View ArticleWhistleblower Receives $4.5 Million Award
The U.S. Department of Justice settled a whistleblower lawsuit for $17 million. The suit claimed that Lexington Medical Center (LMC) paid kickbacks to physicians in return for referrals. Kickbacks have...
View ArticleWhistleblowers Claim Hospital Orders too Many Surgeries
Few patients enjoy going to the hospital. Even fewer want to face surgery and the long recovery that usually occurs afterwards. Three whistleblowers (two doctors and a medical technician) accused the...
View ArticleMore Blood on the Hands of Big Pharma?
A 27 year old big pharma sales representative committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train. While that story alone is tragic, the reasons for his suicide deserve discussion. According to...
View ArticleCan A Government Employee Receive a Whistleblower Award?
Can a government employee receive a whistleblower award? The answer is often yes! While we rarely see these cases, there is nothing wrong, immoral or illegal with government agents filing claims. There...
View ArticleWage Theft Post – Getting Paid for Travel and Commuting?
Wage theft is a huge problem in the United States. Gone are the days when most workers would drive to a factory, clock in, work eight hours and go home. Today employers expect us to travel to different...
View ArticleIndiana’s New Securities Whistleblower Act Pays 1st Award
Indiana’s securities whistleblower law is still in its infancy. Passed in 2012, the law is barely 4 years old. (The federal False Claims Act dates back to 1863 and the U.S. Civil War.) This week...
View ArticleWhistleblower Awards Available for Pill Mills
What do Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have in common? A huge percentage of narcotic...
View Article2 Share $1.7 Million Award – Radiology Medicare Fraud
Medicare fraud is a huge problem nationally. According to the FBI, taxpayers lose tens of billions of dollars each because of fraud. Since Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid are paid with tax dollars,...
View ArticleA Requiem for Private Prisons and a Last Call too.
[Ed. Note – This post on private prisons was originally submitted to Prison Path, an organization that helps incoming prisoners become adjusted to life in prison and serves as a news source on a...
View ArticleAsk Dr. Nandi [Video]
Pharmaceuticals: Pros & Cons by Dr. Nandi | Link to original source Episode Overview: Dr. Nandi invites a patient, pharmacist, lawyer and legislator to explain the inflated costs of...
View ArticleNovartis Execs Indicted for Foreign Bribes, Kickbacks
Six current and former executives of pharmaceutical giant Novartis were indicted this week. According to the Korea Herald, the executives are charged with paying over $2.3 million in bribes to doctors....
View ArticleDrobot Cooperating, Sentencing Delayed – Healthcare Fraud Post
It has been well over two years since we reported on this story and Michael Drobot remains a free man. He still has not been sentenced for his role in a massive healthcare fraud that involves...
View ArticleCW Network [Video]
Saints, Sinners & Heroes by Brian Mahany Link to original source Attorney Brian Mahany presents his new book: “Saints, Sinners & Heroes: Covert Ops in the War against the C-Suite Mafia” The...
View ArticleThe Insiders [Video]
Whistle Blowers Winning with Dave Price | Link to original source Brian Mahany is a nationally known attorney. Through the help of whistle blowers, he has exposed wrongdoings on several layers. Find...
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Whistleblower News Review
Failure to Report Bank Cybersecurity Breaches or Cyber Inadequacies Next Whistleblower Op by Allison Watts | Link to original source (124K) Financial institutions who fail to secure computer networks...
View ArticleArab Company Tries to Dodge Whistleblower Suit
Trying to sue a company that claims it is based in Kuwait is no easy task. Whistleblower Kamal Mustafa Al-Sultan, himself a Kuwaiti, is learning that lesson after suing Public Warehousing Co KSC in...
View ArticleCross-Selling, Wells Fargo and Whistleblower Awards
“A lot of us are worried that perhaps there’s similar goings-on in other banks.” Those words were spoken by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby at a hearing this week to look into how...
View ArticlePissed Off Yet? (Wells Fargo Whistleblower Post)
The ink isn’t even dry on yesterday’s Wells Fargo post and already we have heard from two former employees… One who says that the problems with cross-selling are worse than reported and one who said...
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