Ex-Kaiser Employee Denied Share of $556 Million Fraud Settlement

A former Kaiser Permanente Inc. employee turned whistleblower isn’t entitled to a $44 million share of a $556 million False Claims Act settlement covering suits two other whistleblowers filed, a California federal district court said.

The settled suits involved claims that are “materially different” from Jeffrey Mazik’s allegation that Kaiser tampered with fraud detection software in order to overcharge Medicare for health-care services, Judge Edward M. Chen of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said in an April 10 order. Mazik on April 12 appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Chen’s ...