In this blog, we have often discussed the use of the False Claims Act (the “Act” or the “FCA”) as a weapon against those who commit health care fraud. While health care fraud is an important target of FCA suits, the Act’s reach goes beyond the health care arena. Generally,…
Health care continues to be a major topic of debate on news shows and in living rooms across the nation. While there may be debate about the root causes and the best solutions, most Americans agree that health care fraud is a significant problem. To be honest, we’d argue that…
For many of us, the term “organized crime” brings to mind images, gathered from movies and televisions, of smoky back rooms where a boss is flanked by well-muscled thugs ready to enforce their own code of justice via brass knuckles or cement shoes. There are, however, many kinds of organized…
In a late-February post on these pages, the main topic of discussion was the fact that the federal government was able to report a record $4.3 billion in recovered funds from healthcare fraud schemes in 2014. As a corollary to that record figure, the Obama administration was able to point…
It is a measure of how the problem of healthcare fraud is so pervasive and ever-changing, that there was news emanating from Washington, D.C., this week that was encouraging as well as dismaying on this issue. And, as San Francisco qui tam lawsuit attorney Gregory J. Brod would remind us,…
As San Francisco qui tam lawsuit attorney Gregory J. Brod has pointed out in his blogs, there are several common schemes that fraudsters employ to steal funds from Medicare and other healthcare government programs, including coding fraud, fake billing and kickback schemes, among others. These schemes, in turn, rob the…
A most unusual application of the federal False Claims Act came to light recently, when it was reported that for-profit schools have bilked the government out of millions of dollars by falsifying records of students so that they could enroll them and draw the federal financial aid that was available…
Medicine is always evolving. In addition to discovering new treatments and other improvements in medicine itself, the way medicine is practice has changed dramatically in recent years. One of the biggest changes is the use of health information technology including electronic health records (“EHRs”). While EHRs provide many benefits to…
Why is health care fraud one of our focal areas at The Brod Law Firm? We understand that millions of Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills. Health care costs are high for many reasons. Fraud is one of these reasons. We believe that our work as a Sacramento…
As those who follow these blog postings have seen, Medicare fraud can come in a variety of guises, and the perpetrators of schemes to defraud the federal government can range from small medical practices all the way up to hospitals and medical organizations. Then there are the really brazen schemes…