Health Care Fraud Attorneys

While government health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid grow, the motive and opportunity for fraudsters to commit health care fraud also rise. In order to ferret out healthcare fraud and to incentivize whistleblowers to step forward with evidence of healthcare fraud, Federal and corresponding state False Claims Act statutes offer strong incentives for people who know of health care fraud to report misconduct and to receive financial rewards for doing so.  Healthcare fraud comes in many forms some of which include:

• Improper hospital billing practices, such as upcoding, miscoding, billing more than once for the same service or equipment, or other similar false and improper billing schemes.
• Billing for name-brand drugs while providing generic medications.
• The performance of avoidable medical tests or procedures to increase Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements.
• Off-label marketing of pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices by manufacturers.
• Mispresentation of drug safety or efficacy by pharmaceutical or medical device companies.
• Payment of kickbacks to physicians or hospitals in exchange for using certain pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices.
• Violation of the Medcaid Rebate Act ("Best Price").

Nearly any type of heathcare fraud committed and which involves government pay such as Medicare, Medicaid, or the U.S. Veterans Administration can be remedied by way of a whistleblower ("qui tam") suit brought under the Federal and/or state False Claims Acts.

If you or someone you know discovers health care fraud of any kind, contact Egan Young today for a confidential consultation regarding filing a qui tam ("whistleblower") action.  Egan Young attorneys have represented numerous whistleblowers in some of the nation's largest qui tam recoveries in the area of healthcare fraud.