How a Hospital Nurse Triggered a $12M False Claims Act Recovery

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/37369313/record-setting-false-claims-act-recoveries-signal-expanded-whistleblower-role-federal-accountability

In 2018 a senior nurse at a regional hospital noticed a recurring pattern: billing for high-level physician services that had never occurred, upcoding of routine procedures, and phantom consultation notes generated by a third-party physician