Category Archives: Whistleblower News

The U.S. Government has yet to decide whether it will join the $835 million lawsuit against Huntington Ingalls. The suit, filed more than a year ago, was brought under the False Claims Act in the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.. The complaint alleges that Huntington improperly spent the Hurricane Katrina relief funds given by the Government to instead cover costs related to shipbuilding contracts.
Read more at: http://www.dailypress.com/business/ports/dp-nws-huntington-ingalls-false-claims-20110929,0,5138266.story

Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. will pay $42 million in its settlement regarding Medicare fraud. According to the charges Hill-Rom billed for extended periods “without making any reasonable effort to determine if the patients for whom it submitted the claims continued to meet Medicare conditions for payment.” The whistleblowers will receive $8 million in rewards, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/09/28/hill-rom-to-pay-42m-fraud-settlement.html?s=print

Improper payments cost Medicare $48 billion last year. Some even suggest that the total amount resulting in Medicare fraud is up to $100 million a year. Medicare officials say they have taken significant action, with federal spending on the fight against Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse.
Read more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/09/27/How-Medicare-Wastes-Almost-50-Billion-a-Year.aspx#page1

Boston Scientific Corp. Guidant LLC will play $9.25 million to settle false claims allegations, brought forth by a whistleblower, that the company defrauded the U.S. Government and private hospitals for heart pacemakers and defibrillators.  The whistleblower will receive more than $2.3 million from the settlement.

Read more at: http://www.beckersasc.com/stark-act-and-fraud-abuse-issues/boston-scientifics-guidant-to-pay-925m-to-settle-claims-of-inflated-pacemaker-costs.html

Here is a list of the “15 Biggest Hospital False Claims and Anti-Kickback Stories of 2011” published by Becker’s Hospital Review. Read the list to gain valuable insight into the common types of fraud and waste plaguing the U.S. health system.

Read more at: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/stark-act-/-antikickback-statute-/-false-claims/15-biggest-hospital-false-claims-and-anti-kickback-stories-of-2011.html