Monday, December 31, 2007

What Rewards for the Whistle Blower?....1/03

Saw an article about an Atlanta Hospital which settled with the government for $26 Million in order to avoid charges of Medicare fraud.

The whistle-blower, a former employee, collected almost $5 Million.

One of the charges in the lawsuit is that I accused PRMC of Medicare fraud. A comment said that it cost the hospital over $250,000 to clear itself during an audit. If that money was paid to the government, isn't that like deferred prosecution? You're guilty, but they just want you to clean up your act? They don't say that a hospital is guilty, but you can draw your own conclusions....

I didn't actually accuse the hospital, but one might characterize a guilty conscious as being overly sensitive...and you wonder if someone pocketed about $45,000!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I WISH I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO CASH IN

Anonymous said...

Remember, Frank- the guilty dog howls the loudest. And the mongrels in NashVegas were really loud, weren't they?