This suit and it's award make me wonder why we do not have "fake employees" at the insurance firms and HMOs? Make sense? In view of all the recent legal awards and court cases, why not.
Doctors have to deal with "fake patients" so why not "fake employees" at the insurance and payer level? The US prides itself on checks and balances, so this might be a good time to perhaps think about this? Granted it's a longer process and more than likely would fall under the area of a law enforcement sting type of operation, but if we are looking for transparency all throughout healthcare, is this a good place to examine? This is not meant to take anything away from this story but it could certainly encourage others to do the same if the system is 
being misused, although the number of whistle blower cases is mounting quickly in all areas, so the time it takes to bring these issues to court is not short by any means. BD
His reward -- $56.25 million -- is part of the largest judgment of its kind in the Chicago area. "I hope that this result will encourage others who know about fraud against the government and come forward," Tyson said Thursday. In 2002, Tyson filed a lawsuit against Amerigroup, revealing that the Medicaid provider, his former employer, was overcharging the government tens of millions of dollars by turning away pregnant women and unhealthy patients. Tyson hired lawyers Fred Cohen and David Chizewer, of Chicago's Goldberg Kohn law firm, to help him prove that Amerigroup refused to insure the people the state paid it to insure. Later, the government joined the lawsuit and won big at trial.
Buffalo Grove man gets $56.25 mil. for telling truth :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
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