In United States ex rel. Jain v. Universal Health Services, Inc., et al.

Represented a whistleblower in a case involving a company that owned and operated psychiatric hospitals and residential psychiatric and behavioral treatment facilities, resulting in a $117 million global settlement.

The United States intervened in the case and related cases from other whistleblowers in the words of the Department of Justice, “resolve allegations that [Universal Health Service’s] hospitals and facilities knowingly submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Federal Employee Health Benefit programs for inpatient behavioral health services that were not reasonable or medically necessary and/or failed to provide adequate and appropriate services for adults and children admitted to UHS facilities across the country.” 

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