According to state officials, increased enforcement has helped the state of Texas recover more than $500 million in Medicaid fraud cases since 2007. David Morales, deputy first assistant attorney general, told Texas state senators earlier this week that the increase coincides with the expansion of the Texas Medicaid civil fraud division four years ago. State [...]
It often seems that government contractor fraud against the United States is limited primarily to the fields of health care and the military. But no. Government contractor fraud can be found quite literally in the fields, specifically the fields of Kansas – in which state the U.S. has brought a False Claims Act lawsuit against [...]
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa was the primary Senate sponsor of 1986 amendments to the federal False Claims Act that bolstered and updated the statute’s whistleblower provisions. Now, the longtime False Claims Act proponent is working to ensure that recent changes to the federal law are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley, longtime proponent of strengthening the federal False Claims Act in order to fight fraud against the government, is now working to ensure that recent changes to that statute are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts patterned after the federal model. Many states have enacted legislation similar to the federal statute [...]
