Nursing home and hospice fraud increases health insurance premiums, limits coverage available through government programs, costs taxpayers, and harms patients on a physical, emotional, and even financial level.

In general, nursing home and hospice fraud occurs in two ways – through fraudulent billing, such as overcharging for care or billing for care not given, and inadequate care, including neglect or administering medications without [...]

When a nursing home commits fraud, there are severe penalties. A whistleblower case can recover funds from the facility, and the nursing home will face fines and may lose funding from critical programs like Medicare [...]

Hospice and nursing home fraud would be much more difficult to identify – and not nearly as much money would be recovered – without the help of whistleblowers. Those who identify and report nursing home [...]

If formal whistleblower status is granted and a lawsuit is filed on behalf of the government, the whistleblower will receive a percentage of the recovered funds or from the defendant’s settlement amount.