Choosing a nursing home or other senior care facility is a difficult and emotional decision. There are many factors to consider, many of which can spark intense family debates, including location, price, and available forms of care. There are also more individualized factors like whether the prospective resident has friends…
Medicare fraud is a topic that is receiving increasing attention from authorities and news media alike. Our California Medicare fraud law office believes this attention is rightly placed and we support efforts to both recover wrongfully diverted funds and prevent future frauds. Two of the ways that the government accomplishes…
Sadly, it doesn’t feel unusual for someone accused of a crime to continue suspect behavior. As pending litigation against a surgeon already embroiled in health care fraud litigation became even more complex last week, it also continued to break new legal ground with allegations involving a specific form of business…
At the Brod Law Firm, we’re proud to be part of the fight against healthcare and government contracts fraud in San Francisco and across the state. We are also humbled to work with the people who witness fraud or other wrongdoing and decide to speak up against it. While we…
Mention the phrase “card catalog” to someone over age 30 (or maybe 35?) and they will recall searching for books in the library by leafing through small notecards listing titles, authors, and Dewey Decimal numbers. Mention the phrase to a teen and you’ll probably elicit a blank stare. The card…
As Veterans’ Day approaches, our firm would like to take a moment to thank the men and women of the armed forces who fight for our freedom and our safety, individuals who risk their lives for the American dream. We owe a debt of gratitude to each of you and…
Most Americans know someone who has struggled to get needed care approved by his/her health insurance provider. As a result, many feel forced to choose between medical care and other essentials. A survey conducted by a national network of food banks found almost 2/3 of client households faced the unenviable…
Health care whistleblowers are, in our humble opinion, pretty amazing people. They speak out against some of the nation’s biggest and most powerful companies, often taking their concern public after butting heads with company executives. Others see the same wrongs that whistleblowers spot and many are similarly upset, but whistleblowers…
Home healthcare, physical therapy and prescription drugs have been some of the more common examples of healthcare services that have been used to defraud Medicare, and, as our blogs have pointed out, many of the most notorious schemes have been emanating from Miami and South Florida, the national epicenter of…
As readers of this blog know, the False Claims Act (“the Act”) is an important tool for combatting health care fraud. The Act allows our Northern California whistleblowers’ law firm to partner with private whistleblowers to fight back against schemes that divert tens of billions of dollars from Medicare, Medicaid,…