(Please note:
A private plaintiff, or whistleblower, under the False
Claims Act is known as a "relator.")
·
Total amount recovered where there is an associated
qui tam case (since the False Claims Act was amended in 1986): $5.2 billion
·
Total amount recovered in cases that the Department
of Justice (DOJ) entered or otherwise pursued: $4.962
billion
·
Total amount recovered by relators in cases declined
by DOJ: $242 million
·
Total number of qui tam cases filed through 2001: 3,623
Qui
tam cases filed (by fiscal year):
- 1987: 33
- 1988: 60
- 1989: 95
- 1990: 82
- 1991: 90
- 1992: 119
- 1993: 132
- 1994: 222
- 1995: 277
- 1996: 363
- 1997: 533
- 1998: 470
- 1999: 481
- 2000: 366
- 2001: 300
Recoveries
in qui tam cases pursued by DOJ (by fiscal year):
- 1988: $355,000
- 1989: $15 million
- 1990: $40 million
- 1991: $70 million
- 1992: $134 million
- 1993: $171 million
- 1994: $379.6 million
- 1995: $245 million
- 1996: $125 million
- 1997: $622.7 million
- 1998: $432.7 million
- 1999: $454 million
- 2000: $1.19 billion
- 2001: $1.07 billion
Recoveries
in cases declined by DOJ (by fiscal year):
- 1988: $35,431
- 1989: 0
- 1990: $75,000
- 1991: $69,500
- 1992: $994,456
- 1993: $5.9 million
- 1994: $1.8 million
- 1995: $1.8 million
- 1996: $14 million
- 1997: $7 million
- 1998: $29.2 million
- 1999: $62.5 million
- 2000: $1.1 million
- 2001: $117 million
·
Relators' awards when DOJ intervened
in or otherwise pursued the case, in cases where shares
have been determined (total): $745 million
·
Relators' awards when government declined to intervene
(total): $63 million
DOJ's
decision on qui tam cases:
·
Intervened or otherwise pursued: 550 cases
 |
• Active: |
129 |
| |
• Settled or judgment: |
404 |
| |
• Inactive: |
5 |
| |
• Unclear: |
0 |
| |
•
Dismissed, no recovery: |
12 |
· Declined:
1,917
|
• Active: |
307 |
| |
• Settled or judgment: |
112 |
| |
• Inactive: |
32 |
| |
• Unclear: |
92 |
| |
•
Dismissed, no recovery: |
1,374 |
· Dismissed
before election: 429
· Under investigation:
727
Recoveries
in qui tam cases involving health care fraud and defense
fraud, two common areas of False Claims actions:
·
Health
care:
|
• Cases filed: |
1,786 |
| |
• Government recovery:
|
$2.88 billion |
| |
• Relator share: |
$421 million |
·
Defense:
|
• Cases filed: |
1,128 |
| |
• Government recovery:
|
$1.36 billion |
| |
• Relator share: |
$239.8 million |
Percentage
of qui tam cases involving health care fraud (by fiscal
year, as of 10/98):
|
• 1987: |
12 percent |
| |
• 1988-1992: |
15 percent each year |
| |
• 1993: |
30 percent |
| |
• 1994: |
36 percent |
| |
• 1995: |
34 percent |
| |
• 1996: |
56 percent |
| |
• 1997: |
54 percent |
·
Average False Claims Act recovery
in qui tam cases (both entered and declined) where there
has been a recovery: $5.8 million (as of 11/99)
·
Median recovery in qui tam cases
where there has been a recovery (does not include cases
delegated to U.S. Attorneys' offices): $915,000 (as
of 12/97)
·
Average relator's award in qui
tam cases (both entered and declined) where there has
been a recovery: $1 million (as of 11/99)
·
Median relator's award in qui
tam cases where there has been a recovery (does not
include cases delegated to U.S. Attorneys' offices):
$183,000 (as of 12/97)
*(Source: Department
of Justice, through 9/20/01)
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