Online scams are soaring, drawing the eye of federal enforcers, who want the help of whistleblowers to prosecute and stop fraudsters. Cryptocurrency-related complaints, an up-and-coming area of fraud, hit $5.6 billion in losses last year, up 45 … [Read more...]

A CVS subsidiary recently struck a $60 million settlement to resolve kickback allegations, the latest settlement highlighting financial threats to Medicare programs. Oak Street Health allegedly paid third-party insurance agents to recruit to its … [Read more...]

If you're considering exposing fraud against the government, understanding the journey ahead is vital. In a recent episode of the Fraud in America podcast, Keller Grover attorney Kate Scanlan, known for her extensive experience with the False Claims … [Read more...]

As climate change intensifies, the federal government has ramped up its efforts to combat its effects, including allocating billions of dollars to various environmental programs. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $4.3 … [Read more...]

For more than a decade, the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus has led an effort to designate July 30 as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day,” celebrating whistleblowers’ contributions and risking their livelihoods and reputations to combat … [Read more...]

Billions of dollars in pandemic-related fraud remains unresolved, and the government is relying on whistleblowers to enforce consequences for misuse of public funds.  During the past fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Justice resolved about 270 … [Read more...]

About a third of Americans who make it to their 65th birthdays will need nursing home care, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2021, Medicare spent $92.6 billion on skilled nursing facility care and home health … [Read more...]

Medicare Advantage, also known as Medicare Part C, has become the country’s largest taxpayer-funded health insurance program with more than 31 million participants. But as annual expenditures for the program have tripled over the past decade to $450 … [Read more...]

The nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office, in a first-of-its-kind report, has produced an estimate of how much money the federal government is losing each year to fraud. It’s not only a staggering figure — $233 billion to $521 billion … [Read more...]

As the Department of Justice’s annual False Claims Act report shows, Medicaid fraud comprises a significant portion of all the frauds against the federal government each year. In fiscal year 2023, the DOJ reported $2.68 billion in FCA settlements and … [Read more...]