At Bracker & Marcus, we are passionate about providing updates and keeping our community informed on news and law regulations related to healthcare fraud throughout the United States.
Genetic Testing Scams Violate the False Claims Act In September 2019, the Department of Justice announced that Operation Double Helix had resulted in 35 indictments of individuals associated with telemedicine [...]
A majority of False Claims Act cases filed by whistleblowers include allegations of Medicaid fraud Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced that the office’s Medicaid Fraud Division recovered more than [...]
Defendant violated False Claims Act by using bulk products in compound drugs Bracker & Marcus LLC is pleased to announce that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of [...]
There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program. That’s a billion dollars a week. At an April 11 town hall, presidential candidate Tim Ryan of Ohio made [...]
Supplying unneeded durable medical equipment violates the False Claims Act. Earlier this week, the authorities announced charges against 24 people across the U.S., including doctors accused of writing bogus prescriptions [...]
Whistleblowers are vital to protecting the integrity of the Medicaid program According to a recent report by HHS-OIG, insurers who manage Medicaid insurance plans are ineffective when it comes to [...]
The city of Philadelphia believes so. City officials are looking to hold the pharmaceutical companies accountable for their part in the crisis by suing them under a city false claims act. The [...]
An update to our previous blog post: Mylan will pay $465 million in fines to settle claims brought by the U.S. Justice Department. In a rare instance of a corporation being the [...]
EpiPen pricing has been in the headlines often lately. The manufacturer, Mylan, keeps raising the price and ripping off patients. EpiPens went from costing $57 in 2007 to around $600 [...]
With the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, CMS offered significant incentives to health care providers to encourage the use of [...]