Corporate Whistleblower Center Urges Physicians / Insiders to Call if They Possess Proof of a Healthcare Company Payoff Scheme or Overbilling Medicare

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Sep 01, 2015, 08:35 ET

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Whistleblower Center is urging medical doctors and healthcare industry insiders to call them anytime at 866-714-6466, if they possess well documented proof a hospital, pharmaceutical company medical device company, a hospice provider, a dialysis center, or a skilled nursing facility is involved in payoffs to physicians, and or overcharging for Medicare. The reward potential for this type of information can be significant, as the Center would like to explain anytime. http://CorporateWhistleblowerCenter.Com

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Well documented proof that a hospital, a drug company, a medical device company, or almost any kind of healthcare imaginable is bribing physicians, or overbilling Medicare, or Medicaid is wrongdoing the Corporate Whistleblower Center would like to hear about. In the instance of Medicare, or Medicaid, overbilling amounts must be over a million dollars. http://CorporateWhistleblowerCenter.Com

The type of wrongdoing the Corporate Whistleblower Center would like to hear about include:

Medical doctors being bribed to increase hospital admissions.
A medical device, or pharmaceutical company bribing physicians with speaker fees, or special compensation for over prescribing a drug, or unnecessary surgical procedures involving a medical device.
Hospice providers billing Medicare, or Medicaid for procedures that never happened,
A dialysis center that has overbilled Medicare, or Medicaid for services that never occurred, or billing for unnecessary procedures.
Unnecessary surgical procedures including heart catheterizations that were not needed.
A short staffed nursing home, or skilled nursing facility overbilling Medicare, or Medicaid for services that were never delivered.

As an example of what the Corporate Whistleblower Center is talking about, according to the Department of Justice, "Two Southwest Missouri hospitals have agreed to pay the United States $5.5 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians.

"The settlement resolved allegations that the hospitals submitted false claims to the Medicare program for services rendered to patients referred by physicians who received bonuses based on a formula that improperly took into account the value of the physicians' referrals of patients to the clinic. Federal law restricts the financial relationships that hospitals and clinics may have with doctors who refer patients to them.

"If a potential whistleblower calls us at 866-714-6466 we will do everything to see to it that they have immediate access to the nation's most skilled whistleblower lawyers. No other group in the nation offers this service." http://CorporateWhistleblowerCenter.Com

In this instance the whistleblower will receive $825,000.

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 federal 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 government contractor or corporation to come clean to the government about their wrongdoing.

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, Maine, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, or Washington.

Any type of insider or employee who possesses significant proof of their employer or a government contractor defrauding the federal government is encouraged to contact Corporate Whistleblower Center anytime at 866-714-6466 or via their website. http://CorporateWhistleblowerCenter.Com

For attribution please refer to the August 2015 Justice Department press release related to this matter.http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/missouri-hospital-agrees-pay-united-states-55-million-settle-alleged-false-claims-act.

Case number: United States ex rel. Moore v. Mercy Health Springfield Communities f/k/a St. John's Health System, Inc., et al., Case No. 13-3019-CV (W.D. Mo.).

Media Contact:
M. Thomas Martin
866-714-6466

SOURCE Corporate Whistleblower Center