Whistleblower Partners’ Client, Teresa Ross, Reaches Historic Settlement, Up to $100 million, With Independent Health for Alleged Risk Adjustment Fraud

Whistleblower Partners is proud to announce that our client, Teresa Ross, and the United States, have reached a settlement with Independent Health (“IH”), a Medicare Advantage Organization in Western New York, as well as its former subsidiary, DxID, and that subsidiary’s former CEO Betsy Gaffney. The settling parties will pay up to $100 million, with […]

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Settlement With Independent Health, Up to $100 Million

Whistleblower Partners attorneys represented a whistleblower in a suit that resulted in a 2024 settlement of up to $100 million with Independent Health, a Medicare Advantage Organization in Western New York. The whistleblower alleged that Independent Health, and one of its former subsidiaries called DxID, flaunted Medicare rules and submitted improper diagnosis codes to the […]

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The Cookstove Carbon Credit Con: When Social Good Goes Wrong

C-Quest’s cookstove project seemed like a win-win: a low-cost carbon credit initiative with the promise of real climate impact and better living conditions for impoverished communities in Mozambique. The project? Distribute cheap, efficient cookstoves that use less wood than traditional campfires. These stoves were expected to reduce deforestation, cut carbon emissions, and lower the risk […]

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Rules of the Road: Federal Regulator Explains to Auto-Safety Whistleblowers How to Help Protect the Public

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the nation’s auto-safety regulator, finalized a new rule for its whistleblower program, which pays monetary awards to auto-industry insiders for providing information about critical safety defects. At long last, auto-safety whistleblowers can know the rules of the road for blowing the whistle. NHTSA’s New Whistleblower Program Rule In […]

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HHS Releases a New Fraud Alert: Does it Signal New Enforcement Priorities in the Medicare Advantage Program?

Medicare Advantage, or Medicare Part C, is an extremely popular alternate model to traditional Medicare. In traditional Medicare, the government directly pays for services provided, known as a “fee for service” model. Under the Medicare Advantage program, the government contracts with private insurers and pays them premiums to provide coverage for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. In this […]

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