Tag Archives: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACA Whistleblower Claim Revived by Justice Department Review Board
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board recently revived a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) claim made by a whistleblower who was a former nurse at the Medical Center of Aurora. The board says an administrative law judge was mistaken in finding she did not meet the requirements for an ACA whistleblower […]
First ACA Whistleblower Claim Resolved with $6.88 Million Settlement
In the first-ever healthcare fraud lawsuit resulting from whistleblower actions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a provider of home medical care services to medically vulnerable children has agreed to pay a settlement worth $6.8 million. As a part of the settlement, the two whistleblowers who alerted authorities to the company’s wrongdoing split […]
