National Report Pharmaceutical Fraud Day is officially celebrated on January 23. It brings awareness to the amount of Medicare Fraud by pharmaceutical companies and teaches you how to obtain a monetary reward for reporting fraud by drug companies. This web page explains how you can get report pharmaceutical Medicare fraud and get a whistleblower reward.
Statistics for Healthcare Whistleblower Rewards
The government pays whistleblower rewards up to 25% of the money the government recovers based upon a whistleblower bringing fraud allegations of pharmaceutical Medicare Fraud.
- The largest whistleblower reward in a Medicare fraud case is $150 million
- The average whistleblower reward for reporting pharmaceutical Medicare fraud is $688,826
- The total amount recovered in whistleblower initiated Medicare fraud cases is over $30 billion ($30,304,269,058)
- The portion of fraud cases against the government that are healthcare related is 83%
- The total whistleblower rewards paid in Medicare fraud cases is nearly $5 billion ($4,943,706,903)
Joel Hesch and his law firm created National Report Pharmaceutical Fraud Day. Mr. Hesch spent over 15 years working in Department of Justice whistleblower reward office. While at DOJ, Mr. Hesch obtained over $1 billion in recoveries back for the government from those cheating Medicare and paid out hundred of millions in rewards to whistleblowers. Mr. Hesch was also assigned to the Pharmaceutical Fraud Task Force within the Civil Fraud Section of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. One Medicare Fraud case Mr. Hesch worked on recovered $641 million and paid a whistleblower award of $100 million. Mr. Hesch formed his own law firm and now exclusively represents whistleblowers nationwide in filing for rewards for reporting fraud against the government, including pharmaceutical Medicare fraud. Click here to ask Mr. Hesch and his team of attorneys to review in complete confidence your potential reward case.