Bracker & Marcus LLC - Whistleblower Attorneys

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Healthcare is vital but it is also big business in the United States, with costs approaching 18 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Government healthcare programs make up a substantial portion of these costs. The Medicare and Medicaid programs alone insure nearly one in three Americans (over 100 million people) and their combined program spending totaled $1.3 trillion in 2018 alone. The huge amount of money at stake in the healthcare industry makes it a field day for fraudsters with up to 10% of government healthcare spending lost to fraud.

Given the enormous amount of healthcare claims submitted to the government, the government cannot conceivably ferret out all of the fraud by itself. This is why brave whistleblowers, with assistance from a healthcare fraud attorney, have been the driving force behind the government’s successful prosecution of healthcare fraud. 

In the 2019 fiscal year, $2.1 billion of the $2.6 billion recovered in healthcare industry matters were the effect of False Claims Act cases filed by whistleblowers, primarily identifying Medicare fraud. Although much of the attention is on Medicare and Medicaid, whistleblowers with an Atlanta healthcare fraud attorney can bring False Claims Act suits for all government-funded healthcare programs, including the TRICARE (military), Federal Employee Healthcare Benefits, and Veterans Administration programs.