Medicare fraud: One thing about the government, it's easier to take action against corrupt medical services providers when your prosecution is backed by federal dollars. One of the positive benefits for consumers in governmental medical services programs is that the government may tolerate consumers being rooked out of money for medical services, but when it comes to their own money, they support reporting.
The False Claims Act has a whistleblower provision that allows private citizens to file claims on behalf of the federal government alleging financial fraud AND citizens can share in the recoveries.
One to watch is the January lawsuit against NJ hospitals: Robert Wood Johnson University hospital, Barnert Hospital and Bayonne Medical Center which allegedly inflated bills submitted to Medicare on behalf of their patients.
Since we have already discussed that most reporting of fraud occurs from private citizens, look into Whistleblower provisions that provide for payments to such activists.
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