Florida Pharmacists Win $597 Million Blowing Whistle on Scheme [1]

Bloomberg.com - 8/13/13, By David Voreacos

No industry has felt the sting of whistle-blowing more than health care. Since 1988, whistle-blowers have helped the U.S. government recover $24.2 billion, and 75 percent of that involved medical treatment, according to the Department of Justice [2]. The pace is accelerating. Since 2009, 91 percent of the $10.6 billion recovered has come in health-care cases.

Ven-A-Care stopped a scheme that was costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year, says Suzanne Durrell, a former U.S. prosecutor who worked on the pharmacy’s first case.

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