Providers Will Find 2011 Is ‘Big Year’ for Regulations, Recoupment, Whistleblowers
Report on Medicare Compliance
January 17, 2011
In this issue, a respected healthcare trade publication interviewed Nolan Auerbach partner Jeb White about the increased number of qui tam filings against hospitals. “Compliance officers are probably the largest contingency of whistleblowers in the hospital setting,” said White. “It makes sense. Compliance officers raise issues to their bosses, who [sometimes] say ‘stop looking.’ Compliance officers are alienated, isolated, terminated — and then they call me.”