September 12 - National Report Medicare Fraud Day

Happy National Report Medicare Fraud Day! Today, September 12 represents the Medicare fraud of which affects us all.

Ten percent of all Medicare funds are lost due to fraud. The government spends $650 billion a year on Medicare, and $65 billion a year is lost to Medicare fraud. No wonder we have a national health care crisis!   

However, we can report Medicare fraud in two different ways. Each of these choices provides very different results.  

 

One is to blow the whistle under the Department of Justice (DOJ) reward program, which pays fifteen percent to twenty-five percent of the amount DOJ recovers.  

The average DOJ reward for reporting Medicare fraud is $690,000. Some rewards have been as high as $150 million! 

In addition, if you report fraud under the DOJ program, the government must open an investigation and inform you of the results.  

Today, over three-fourths of the government’s Medicare fraud cases are DOJ whistleblower reward cases. 

Thus, the government is counting on whistleblowers to bring Medicare fraud cases to DOJ and receive a reward in the process. 

The other way to report fraud directly is to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which runs the Medicare program. You can report fraud to CMS through its website or by calling its hotline. 

The National Report Medicare Fraud Day not only brings awareness to the amount of Medicare fraud but provides the public with detailed steps for reporting it. 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

It’s time to put an end to fraudulent Medicare claims! Become a part of the solution. 

Simply visit the websites below: 

(https://www.ReportMedicareFraudDay.com). 

http://reportmedicarefraudday.com 

You can also download a free e-book with step-by-step instructions for reporting Medicare fraud. It is your one resource for all you need to know about reporting Medicare fraud. 

Share and follow this day using #ReportMedicareFraudDay on social media. 

HISTORY 

In 2017, The Hesch Firm, LLC founded National Report Medicare Fraud Day. 

The day came to be after American founding attorney and professor of law and author, Joel D. Hesch, spent over fifteen years working in DOJ’s whistleblower reward office.  

Mr. Hesch now exclusively represents whistleblowers nationwide in filing for rewards for reporting fraud. 

To help whistleblowers properly report Medicare fraud, he authored a free e-book and created a website to ensure that the public knows how to properly report Medicare fraud and follow the steps necessary to be eligible for a reward.  

Visit the website: https://www.ReportMedicareFraudDay.com 

In 2017, the Registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed the day to be observed annually on September 12.

 

Contact Information: 

(434) 592-5300) 

jhesch@liberty.edu 

#ReportMedicalFraudDay 

@medicare 

@DOJ

@bheschlaw 

@LibertyUniversityLaw 

@nichecinema