Overbilling

UnitedHealth Wellmed Overlooks Provider Overcoding and Overpayments Leading to False Claims Act Allegations

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Uncategorized
Our Los Angeles and Orange County based False Claims Act (“FCA”) attorneys report that the Department of Justice recently joined a whistleblower lawsuit against the UnitedHealth Group and Wellmed.  The main allegations claim that UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest healthy insurer and Wellmed Medical Manag...

Just in time for the holidays, the U.S. Justice Department Reports that it Paid-Out $519 Million to Whistleblowers in 2016

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Retaliation, Whistleblower Protection
As many of our clients know, reporting your company’s fraudulent activity or even seemingly fraudulent actions such as over-billing for lower level services, avoiding payments owed to the government, or billing for unnecessary procedures to extract money from government programs like Medicare and Medicaid can be very...

Multi-Million Dollar False Claims Act Settlements Paid by a Medical Waste Company and a California Hospital System

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Whistleblower Protection
In yet another case, a regulated medical waste management company by the name of Stericycle entered into a $28,500,000 settlement with the qui tam plaintiff and government.  The qui tam plaintiff was a customer relations specialist for Stericycle and noticed that Stericycle improperly increased its service fees to a n...