Definition of Medicare Fraud

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California Medicare Fraud Lawyer Discusses
Medicare Fraud by Attorney Jeffrey F Keller
Whistleblower lawyer Streamed live on Nov 13,
2014 Watch the rest of the video
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com/ Medicare and Medicaid programs and cost
Americans billions of dollars each year, through
false billing and other schemes. Medicare fraud
is also the subject of task force action. The
Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement
Action Team (HEAT), for example, is a joint
effort of the Department of Justice and the
Department of Health and Human Services. If you
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below. What is a whistleblower? Simply put a
whistleblower is the person who blows the
whistle on misconduct by reporting concerns
about alleged illegal or fraudulent conduct to
the appropriate authorities. When the wrongdoing
is a fraud on the government a whistleblower
might expose healthcare fraud, defense contractor
fraud, procurement fraud, or even fraud for
underpaying the government. Most importantly, a
whistleblower who has information
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about a fraud on the government will be able to
use laws passed especially to encourage, protect
and promote this exact kind of whistleblowing. Wh
at Laws Can a Whistleblower Use? The federal
False Claims Act is one of the most powerful
tools available to the whistleblower. It was
originally signed into law in 1863 to help combat
fraud by suppliers to the United States
government during the Civil War. Today, more than
150 years later, the False Claims Act remains one
of the federal governments most effective
weapons in fighting fraud against the government.
It has been so successful that many states and
even some cities have passed similar laws to
target fraud on them too. So, depending on who
the victim of the fraud is, there are a variety
of laws designed to help someone blow the
whistle on a government fraud. What does Qui
Tam mean? Qui tam is a Latin phrase to describe
the special situation where a private citizen
brings a lawsuit to recover on behalf of the
government. The defendant in a qui tam lawsuit is
a company or citizen who has committed fraud or
violated certain governmental regulations in a
contract with the government. When a qui tam
lawsuit is successful, the government is entitled
to triple its damages and the qui tam
whistleblower gets a percentage of whatever the
government recovers. Qui tam lawsuits are a very
special partnership between the government and
private citizens that enables the government to
recover billions from wrongdoers every
year. What are whistleblower rewards? Yes. Most
whistleblowers are not familiar with
whistleblower rewards. Qui tam whistleblowers
(referred to as relators) receive a percentage
of the funds the federal or state government
successfully recovers either by settlement or by
judgment. By law that amount is 15 to 30 percent
of the governments recovery, depending on a few
factors. These rewards provide incentives to
whistleblowers, in part, to acknowledge the risks
whistleblowers may take and to encourage them to
come forward to help identify these frauds
despite the potential risks.