Dentist
Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits and Dental
Medicare Whistleblower
Lawsuits
are on the rise and it is expected the Medicaid and
Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers will save the government
Billions of dollars and be able to collect a portion of
the recovered money.
If you are aware of Dentist Medicaid Fraud,
Dentist Medicare Fraud, Orthodontist Medicaid Fraud,
Dental Clinic Medicaid Fraud, Orthodontist Medicare
Fraud, or other government fraud and are
the original source with special
knowledge and evidence of the fraud and want to be a whistleblower and
an American Hero, please feel free to
contact
Dentist Medicare and Medicaid Whistleblower Fraud Lawyer
Jason Coomer via
e-mail message or use our
submission form about a potential Qui Tam False
Claim Whistleblower
lawsuit, Dentist Medicaid Fraud, Dental Clinic Medicaid
Fraud lawsuit, Dental Medicaid Fraud lawsuit,
Orthodontics Medicaid Fraud lawsuit, Dentist Medicare
Fraud Lawsuit, or Orthodontic Group or Clinic Medicaid
Fraud lawsuit.
Dentist Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Dental Medicaid Fraud
Lawsuits, Medicaid Fraud Dentist Office Federal False Claims Act Whistleblower Lawsuits,
Unnecessary Dental Work Medicaid Fraud, Dental
Upcoding Medicaid Fraud, and Dentist Office Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuits
Dentists, Orthodontists, Dental
Clinics, Orthodontic Groups, and other health care
professionals that take Medicaid and Medicare payments
including Federal Medicaid Benefits and State Medicaid
Benefits are becoming more common. These Dental
and Orthodontic Groups take payments from federal and
state funded programs for providing basic dental
services to individuals and families. However, in
order to increase profits some of these dental clinics,
dental groups, orthodontists, dentists, and orthodontic
groups provide false billing statements to the
government including double billing, triple billing,
billing for services not provided, upcoding, or billing
for unnecessary services. This billing fraud is
dental Medicaid Billing Fraud, orthodontic Medicaid
Billing Fraud, dental Medicare Billing Fraud, and
orthodontic Medicare Billing Fraud.
It is important for families with
children needing dental care or orthodontic care to be
able to obtain these services as well as elderly people
to be able to obtain dental care and orthodontic care,
but it is also important that health care fraud
including Medicare Fraud and Medicaid Fraud are stopped.
Dental Medicaid Fraud Whistleblowers, Dentist Medicare
Fraud Whistleblowers, Orthodontist Medicaid Fraud
Whistleblowers, Orthodontic Medicaid Fraud
Whistleblowers, and other Medicare Fraud and Medicaid
Fraud Whistleblowers are an essential necessary part of
identifying and stopping health care fraud.
Dentist Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Dental Clinic
Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Orthodontist Medicaid Billing
Fraud Lawsuits, Double Billing Medicaid Fraud and
Unnecessary Dental Work Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Dental
Upcoding Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, and Dentist Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuits
As Medicaid and Medicare spending
increases, some health care providers including dentists
and orthodontists are making false claims for services
including billing for services not provided, upcoding
services, double billing, and providing unnecessary
services. As such, it is important for Dentists,
Orthodontists, Dentist Office Managers,
Orthodontics Office Managers, Medicaid Billing Clerks,
Medicaid Coders, and other Dental Professionals to
become Medicaid whistleblowers to seek compensation on the
government's behalf from companies and people that have
defrauded taxpayers out of government money. Qui
Tam Dental Medicaid Fraud
Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer helps Medicaid Fraud whistleblowers
and Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers
determine if they may have a viable Dental Medicaid
Fraud lawsuit, Orthodontics Medicaid Fraud lawsuit,
Dentist Medicare Fraud Lawsuit, or Orthodontic Medicaid
Fraud lawsuit.
Medicaid Billing Fraud Lawsuits, Medicare
Billing Fraud Lawsuits, and the Increase in Medicare and
Medicaid Spending
Medicaid is a public health care
problem in the United States that provides health care,
dental care, and orthodontic care for eligible
individuals and families with low incomes and resources.
The Medicaid Program is jointly funded by state and
federal governments, but is managed by the states.
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical
and health-related services for people with limited
income in the United States and the Medicaid program has
been increasing. The fastest growing aspect of
Medicaid is nursing home coverage and this is expected
to continue as the Baby Boomer generation begins to
reach nursing home age.
Unlike Medicare, which is solely a
federal program, Medicaid is a joint federal-state
program. Each state operates its own Medicaid system.
Each state's Medicaid Program must conform to federal
guidelines in order for the state to receive matching
funds and grants. For many states Medicaid has
become a major budget issue as on average the state's
matching costs of the Medicaid program is about 16.8% of
state general funds. According to CMS, the Medicaid
program provided health care services to more than 46.0
million people in 2001. In 2008, Medicaid provided
health coverage and services to approximately 49 million
low-income children, pregnant women, elderly persons,
and disabled individuals. Federal Medicaid outlays were
estimated to be $204 billion in 2008. Medicaid
payments currently assist nearly 60 percent of all
nursing home residents and about 37 percent of all
childbirths in the United States. The Federal Government
pays on average 57 percent of Medicaid expenses.
Texas Dentist Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Dental
Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Orthodontist Medicaid
Billing Fraud Lawsuits, South Texas Medicaid Orthodontic
Group Medicaid Billing Fraud, South Texas Medicaid
Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid
Fraud Double Billing Lawsuits, Texas Unnecessary Dental
Work Medicaid Fraud, South Texas Dental Upcoding
Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, and Dentist Office Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuits
The Medicaid program in Texas spend
about $10 Billion annually on providing health care
benefits to the poor. The Texas Medicaid program
includes dental work including check ups, fillings, and
braces. Of the Medicaid services provided, it is
thought that there is an increasing amount of Medicaid
Billing Fraud that could be costing tax payers hundreds
of millions of dollars each year.
As such, it is vitally important for
Texas Medicaid Fraud Whistleblowers to step up and blow
the whistle on Medicaid Billing Fraud. Texas
Medicaid Whistleblowers, Texas Orthodontic Medicaid
Fraud Whistleblowers, and Texas Dentist Medicaid Billing
Fraud Whistleblowers need to step up and blow the
whistle to stop this Medicaid Fraud. By filing
Texas Dentist Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Dental
Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Orthodontist Medicaid
Billing Fraud Lawsuits, South Texas Medicaid Orthodontic
Group Medicaid Billing Fraud, South Texas Medicaid
Billing Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid
Fraud Double Billing Lawsuits, Texas Unnecessary Dental
Work Medicaid Fraud, South Texas Dental Upcoding
Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits, and Dentist Office Qui Tam
Whistleblower Lawsuits, Texas Whistleblowers can save
the Texas and the United States hundreds of millions of
dollars and may be able to recover tens of millions of
dollars themselves if they are successful relators.
The Increase in Government Health Care Spending
including Medicare Spending, VA Spending, Tricare
Spending, and Medicaid Spending is creating More Health
Care Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Medicaid Fraud, and VA
Medical Fraud and the need for more Medicaid Billing
Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits, Medicare Billing Fraud
Whistleblower Lawsuits, and other Health Care Fraud
Whistleblower Lawsuits
Health Care Fraud costs United States
Tax Payers approximately $90 billion each year through
Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health care
programs. Because the Medicare budget, the
Medicaid Budget, the VA Budget, the TRICARE Budget,
Medicaid Fraud, and Medicare Fraud are continuing to
increase each year, it is vitally important that
Medicare
Fraud Whistleblowers,
Medicare Fraud
Upcoding Fraud Whistleblowers,
Medicare Medicaid Fraud Hospital Whistleblowers,
Hospice Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers, and
Medicare Medicaid Fraud Nursing Home Whistleblowers
continue to step forward and blow the whistle on health
care fraud.
Medicare is Different from Medicaid, but both
Medicare Billing Fraud Whistleblowers and Medicaid
Billing Fraud Whistleblowers are needed to File Medical
Billing Fraud Lawsuits
In 2009, the Medicare program covered
an estimated 45 million persons and this number is
expected to grow as about 7,000 people a day are
reaching retirement age. As millions of people are
added to the Medicare budget each year, the cost of the
Medicare budget is expected to grow. The Medicare
programd consists of four distinct parts which are
funded differently:
Part A (Hospital Insurance, or HI)
covers inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing
care, and home health and hospice care. The HI trust
fund is mainly funded by a dedicated payroll tax of 2.9%
of earnings, shared equally between employers and
workers.
Part B (Supplementary Medical
Insurance, or SMI) covers physician services, outpatient
services, and home health and preventive services. The
SMI trust fund is funded through beneficiary premiums
(set at 25% of estimated program costs for the aged) and
general revenues (the remaining amount, approximately
75%).
Part C (Medicare Advantage, or MA) is
a private plan option for beneficiaries that covers all
Part A and B services, except hospice. Individuals
choosing to enroll in Part C must also enroll in Part B.
Part C is funded through the HI and SMI trust funds.
Part D covers prescription drug
benefits. Funding is included in the SMI trust fund and
is financed through beneficiary premiums (about 25%) and
general revenues (about 75%).[27]
Spending on Medicare and Medicaid is
projected to grow dramatically in coming decades. While
the same demographic trends that affect Social Security
also affect Medicare, rapidly rising medical prices
appear to be a more important cause of projected
spending increases.
Economic Incentives for Whistleblowers
Lawsuits, Government Fraud Lawsuits, and Qui Tam Lawsuits
When a government imposes a
penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and
gives that penalty in part to whistleblowers that
will sue for the same, and the other part of the
recovery goes to the government, and makes it
recoverable by action, such actions are called "qui
tam actions", the plaintiff is suing on their own
behalf as well for the government and taxpayers.
Qui tam provisions of the False
Claims Act are based on the theory that one of the
least expensive and most effective means of
preventing frauds on taxpayers and the government is
to make the perpetrators of government fraud liable
to actions by private persons acting under the
strong stimulus of personal ill will or the hope of
gain.
The strong public policy behind
creating an economic gain for whistleblowers is that
the government would be significantly less likely to
learn of the allegations of fraud, but for persons
in certain positions with specialized knowledge of
fraud that has been committed. Congress has made it
clear that creating this economic incentive is
beneficial not only for the government, taxpayers,
and the realtor, but is an efficient method of
regulating government to prevent fraud and
fraudulent schemes.
The central purpose of the qui
tam provisions of the False Claims Act is to set up
incentives to supplement government regulation and
enforcement by encouraging whistleblowers with
specialized knowledge of fraud going on in the
government to blow the whistle on the crime.
The whistleblower's share of
recovery is a maximum of 30 percent and the
government's prior knowledge of fraud now does not
necessarily bar a whistleblower from collecting lost
revenue. If the government takes over the
lawsuit, the relator can "continue as a party to the
action." The defendant is also required to pay for
the relator's attorney fees. The whistleblower is
also protected from retaliatory actions by his or
her employer. As a result a 1986 amendment to the
False Claims Act, qui tam lawsuits have increased
dramatically. Though the amendment was first made
for corrupt defense contractors, the amendment has
uncovered billions of dollars in health care fraud
and will probably apply to fraudulently obtained
TARP and Bail Out Funds.
Federal False Claim Act Whistleblower Lawyers and
Federal False Claims Act Fraud Lawsuits (Qui Tam Lawyers & Relator Claims)
Through Federal False Claims Act Whistleblower Lawsuits, Qui Tam
Lawsuits, and other Government Fraud
Lawsuits, hundreds of billions of dollars have been recovered from
fraudulent government contractors that have stolen large amounts of money from the
government and taxpayers.
It is extremely important that
Whistleblowers continue to expose fraudulent billing
practices and unnecessary treatments that cost billions
of dollars. If you are aware of a large
government contractor that is defrauding the
United States Government out of millions or billions of
dollars, contact Texas
Federal False Claims Act Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer. As a
Federal False Claims Act
Whistle Blower Lawyer, he works with other powerful qui
tam lawyers that handle large Government Fraud cases.
He works with San Antonio Qui Tam Lawyers,
Houston Medicare Fraud
Whistleblower
Lawyers, California Healthcare Fraud Lawyers, Dallas Defense
Contractor Fraud Lawyers, and other
Medicare Fraud
Whistleblower
Lawyers as well as with Qui Tam Federal False Claim Act Whistleblower Lawyers throughout the
United States and the
World to blow the whistle on fraud that hurts the United
States and taxpayers.
If you are aware of
Medicare Fraud,
Defense Contractor Fraud,
Stimulus Fraud,
Government Contractor Fraud, or other government fraud and are
the original source with special
knowledge of fraud and want to be a whistleblower and
an American Hero, please feel free to
contact
Federal False Claims Act Whistleblower Fraud Lawyer
Jason Coomer via
e-mail message or our
submission form about a potential False
Claim
regarding a Health
Care Fraud lawsuit,
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit,
Defense
Contract Fraud Lawsuit, or other
Government Fraud
Lawsuits.