Health
care professionals including chief financial officers,
benefit coordinators, Medicare
compliance coordinators, coding specialists, Medicare
reimbursement managers, accountants, and other health care
professionals are needed to come forward and blow the whistle
on health system fraud and hospital fraud that costs tax
payer hundreds of billions of dollars. It is
estimated that Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud costs tax payers
between $100
Billion and $200 Billion each year. As such, the
United States Department of Justice is encouraging Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers
and Medicaid Fraud Whistleblowers with
evidence of systematic Medicare fraud or systematic
Medicaid fraud to step up and blow the whistle
on Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud.
By
coming
forward as the original source of specialized
information of Medicare fraud these whistleblowers may receive
large economic rewards for
being the first to file on these Medicare billing fraud
scams, are avoiding potential criminal liability for
not reporting Medicare billing fraud, and are helping
taxpayers recover large amounts of money. However, it can be a
difficult decision to for many health care professionals to step forward
to expose health care fraud as they may fear retaliation or damaging
their career.
As
such, medical professionals including
medical doctors and physicians that blow the whistle on
Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud will often require
special protection to protect their medical career and
reputation from potential retaliations. By
contacting a medical doctor whistleblower lawyer,
physician whistleblower lawyer, or health care professional
whistleblower lawyer, a potential health care professional
whistleblower can often better protect their career from
retaliation, determine potential liabilities for exposing or not
exposing fraud, and determine if reporting systematic Medicare fraud and
Medicaid fraud may result in a potential reward.
