Medicaid Whistle-Blower Wins Case

Dr. Gabriel Ethan Felman recently won $4.9 million in his whistle-blower lawsuit against a New York Medicaid program ($14.7 million before taxes and his lawyer’s cut). In his lawsuit, Dr. Felman complained that the city was keeping elderly and disabled people at home by providing expensive medical services through Medicaid when other less expensive programs were available. The city admitted it violated some Medicaid rules and settled the case for $70 million.

Dr. Felman said, “We spend the most on Medicaid, but we also have a million people who are uninsured. I got into public health so that these kinds of things will get better, and I’m still hoping that they will.”

After Dr. Felman won his case, his mother, Bernice Pohl Feldmad, told the world that she would like her son to find a nice Jewish girl to marry. However, the fifty year old Dr. Feldman remains single, for now.

See Anemona Hartocollis, Medicaid Whistle-Blower Wins in Court, but Not Yet at Love, The New York Times, Nov. 9, 2011.

Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (WealthCounsel) for bringing this article to my attention.