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IRS Informant Reward Program – Overview In 2006, the Congress enacted a new whistleblower law that enables private individuals to report: (1) underpayments of tax; and (2) persons otherwise guilty of violating the internal revenue laws. The passage of the IRS Whistleblower Law was significant because the False Claims Act does not apply to claims… Read more »
Articles In This Issue: 1. Defining Disabilities: What DoesThe Future Hold For Employers? 2. Proposed SEC Rules Undermine Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Incentives 3. Why An Understanding Of Copyright Law Is Vital For Architects Related Information: Firm Newsletter, Spring 2011
Physician and Hospital Relationships After Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Collaboration To Replace Competition A major consideration in the drafting and passage of PPACA was an attempt to shift the historic competitive nature of hospital-physician relations (where hospital and physicians compete for control over diagnostic and treatment services), to a more… Read more »
Doug K. Rosenblum authored “Workers’ Compensation Fraud: Tilting at Fraud Mill No Longer Quixotic,” which was published in the Fraud Magazine, The Legal Intelligencer and The Philadelphia Examiner.
Record Setting Whistleblower Recoveries in FY 2010 Fiscal Year 2010 was a record-setting year for recoveries under the False Claims Act (FCA). The United States Department of Justice announced in November 2010 that it had secured $3 billion in civil settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud against the United States in FY 2010. This… Read more »
HHS Fines Insurer $4.3 Million for Failing to Provide Patients Their Records and For Failing to Cooperate with Investigation Cignet Health denied forty-one (41) patients access to their medical records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigated the patients’ complaints and made demands to Cignet to produce the… Read more »
For the third consecutive year, the Internal Revenue Service has failed to pay any informants under its newly minted whistleblower program. The old program, which was first codified in 1867, was generally considered a disappointment. In 2006, Congress passed the Tax Relief and Health Care Act, which created the IRS Whistleblower office and made rewards… Read more »
Two Saint Vincent College alumni with lifelong success in the legal profession are providing the leadership for a new organization they are confident will make Saint Vincent College a standout in providing support for students who want to become attorneys and for alumni in legal careers. The Honorable William H. Baughman, Jr., a United States… Read more »