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.
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 [...]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and HHS Secretary Tom Price announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the U.S. Medicare Fraud Strike Force. The action involved 412 [...]
