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Whistleblowers Needed: FEHB Fraud Oversight Lags Behind Medicare and Medicaid

A recent GAO report has cast a spotlight on persistent fraud vulnerabilities within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program, revealing that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has yet to take decisive action to protect that program. This stands in stark contrast to the comparatively robust fraud prevention mechanisms in place for other federal […]

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Operation Gold Rush – A Reminder of Just How Much Money Is Lost from Healthcare Fraud

As a simple matter of dollars and cents, it is hard to overstate just how big a problem healthcare fraud is. A good reminder of this came earlier this summer, when the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced numerous criminal indictments in “Operation Gold Rush,” targeting a multinational, multi-billion-dollar health care fraud scheme. The Department of

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Department of Justice Announces First-of-Its-Kind Antitrust Whistleblower Program

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has launched its first-ever Whistleblower Rewards Program, working in tandem with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and Postal Inspection Service. Under this new program, individuals who provide credible information leading to successful antitrust prosecutions are eligible for awards between 15% and 30% of any criminal fines the government recovers,

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