At Bracker & Marcus, we are passionate about providing updates and keeping our community informed on news and law regulations related to whistleblowers throughout the United States.
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 [...]
On June 23, 2017, President Trump signed into law the "VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017," designed to enhance whistleblower protections, lowering the standard from a "preponderance of evidence" [...]
Bracker & Marcus LLC and its co-counsel, Jill S. Schwartz & Associates, represent Relator Debra Leggins in a lawsuit against Orlando Housing Authority. OHA is alleged to have mishandled Section 8 [...]
On May 17, 2017, 49 state attorney generals signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee requesting appropriate legislation to allow for sharing of the Part D recoveries with the [...]
Generally speaking, whistleblowers get a bad rap. They are often portrayed as ungrateful, greedy, eccentric, and even crazy. Fortunately in our experience this has rarely, if ever, been the case. [...]
Because of the rise in home health services, Medicaid is at risk for billions of dollars in fraudulent billing. The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of [...]
The Department of Justice has reported its False Claims Act numbers for 2016, and has announced that over its 8-year term, former President Obama's administration recovered more than $31.3 billion [...]
When people hear of "fraud" and "Nigeria," they think of emails from African princes. But the African country is dealing with its own internal fraud problems by implementing a whistleblower [...]
The Department of Justice has recently announced its year end statistics and the results are exciting for anyone who wants to see fraudsters paying back their ill-gotten gains to the [...]
