Whether recovering from surgery or facing a terminal illness, many of our nation’s seniors share a similar desire – to stay in their own homes rather than a hospital or nursing home. While many home health and hospice care companies are committed to making this wish a reality, others put…
If one were asked what type of medical professional would be in receipt of millions of dollars from Medicare, cardiologists, oncologists or some other high-value speciality of medicine would probably rank highly as likely answers. Few would suspect that a physical therapist could rake in multimillion-dollar revenue from the government,…
Most people may be familiar with the term “whistleblower” but how does it relate to qui tam law? Qui tam means “who as well” in Latin and permits a private citizen who helps the government recover funds through California’s False Claim Act to receive a portion of the recovery. As…
Identity theft has been a hot issue for the past few years. Increasing numbers of Americans are keeping a close eye on their bank and credit card statements, even taking the next step of reviewing their full credit report. However, unless it has impacted them or someone close to them,…
In an era when personalized, time-intensive medical care is seemingly a thing of the past, house calls from doctors have become a quaint, increasingly rare form of interaction between physicians and their patients. That is why San Francisco healthcare fraud attorney Gregory J. Brod finds reports that some medical personnel…
Narcotic medications can be a critical part of a pain-management regime. While these drugs can be miraculous for those in medical need, misuse has reached epidemic levels. Sadly, sometimes this abuse is fueled by the very medical practitioners who should be on the front lines of prevention. These wayward practitioners…
This week, Medicare opened the books on where it has distributed roughly $77 billion in a report that is the most detailed accounting of the federal program’s expenditures in its 50-year history. Some fascinating, yet eyebrow-raising, information emerged from the report concerning the concentration of benefits among a select few…
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…