Corporate Whistleblower Center Now Urges a Physician Who Can Prove a Medical Practice Group or Healthcare Company Is Gouging Medicare With Needless Medical Tests to Call About Rewards

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Oct 11, 2017, 08:30 ET

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Whistleblower Center is urging a medical doctor or a healthcare manager to call them anytime at 866-714-6466 if they possess proof a medical practice group or healthcare company is gouging Medicare with needless medical tests. They are also extremely interested in talking to a physician if they have proof a blood testing company or any other type of medical testing company is giving kickbacks to medical doctors for utilizing, or over-utilizing medical tests. Recently a whistleblower received close to $350,000 for this exact type of information. http://CorporateWhistleblower.Com

In this recent example, the Department of Justice announced a family medical practice group agreed to pay $2 million dollars to resolve allegations they submitted and caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare and TRICARE programs. The settlement announced resolve allegations the healthcare company submitted claims to the Medicare Program that violated the physician self-referral prohibition, commonly known as the Stark Law, which is intended to ensure that a physician's medical judgment is not compromised by improper financial incentives.

The Stark Law forbids a clinic from billing Medicare for certain services ordered by physicians who have a financial relationship with the entity. In this case, the government alleged that the Stark Law was violated by the healthcare company's compensation plan that paid their physicians a percentage of the value of laboratory and other diagnostic tests that they personally ordered through the company, which the company then billed to Medicare.

The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, "If you are a medical doctor and you can prove a blood testing company, a radiology group, a UA company or any other type of healthcare testing company is bribing physicians to use or overuse their services please call us anytime at 866-714-6466. If the payoff scheme is widespread there could be a significant whistleblower reward involved as we would like to discuss. Why sit on a potentially winning lotto ticket without ever knowing what it might have been worth?" http://CorporateWhistleblower.Com

Simple rules for a whistleblower from the Corporate Whistleblower Center: Do not go to the government first if you are a major whistleblower. The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, "Major whistleblowers frequently go to the government thinking they will help. It's a huge mistake. Do not go to the news media with your whistleblower information. Public revelation of a whistleblower's information could destroy any prospect for a reward. Do not try to force a company or individual to come clean stark on anti-kickback laws or overbilling Medicare. Come to us first, tell us what type of information you have, and if we think it's sufficient, we will help find the right law firms to assist in advancing your information."

The Corporate Whistleblower Center wants to emphasize there are high quality whistleblowers in every state, including California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, or Alaska. They are especially interested in hearing from medical doctors, medical practice managers or nurses who have information about kickback involving a medical doctor and any type of healthcare provider or company. http://CorporateWhistleblower.Com

The Corporate Whistleblower Center is the premier advocate for whistleblowers in the United States. Unlike any group in the US, they can assist a potential whistleblower with packaging their information and providing the whistleblower with access to some of the most accomplished whistleblower attorneys in the nation. For more information, potential whistleblowers can contact the Corporate Whistleblower Center anytime at 866-714-6466 or visit http://CorporateWhistleblower.Com

For attribution please refer to the September 2017 Department of Justice press release regarding alleged wrongdoing and a whistleblower reward: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-carolina-family-practice-chain-its-co-owner-and-its-laboratory-director-agree-pay.

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SOURCE Corporate Whistleblower Center