The U.S. Government is stepping up enforcement efforts against home health services fraud according to an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) alert recently published. In a separate June 2016 report from OIG, Medicare estimates that it spent approximately $18.4 billion to reimburse more than 11,000 home health agencies. Of that amount, the Medicare Fee-for-Service...
A recent Illinois Appeals Court tackled the appropriateness of an agreement to share the proceeds of a qui tam lawsuit between a whistleblower and a silent (non-whistleblower) partner. We’ve never covered this topic here, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at how and why relators cooperate. Multiple relators can become...



