Mary Inman

Publications

“U.K. Launches U.S.-Style Whistleblower Reward Program to Combat Tax Fraud and the SFO May Be Next,” The Anti-Corruption Report (April 23, 2025) (paywall)

"Who Can Be a Whistleblower? Corporate Outsider and Whistleblower Insiders Alike," LinkedIn (August 7, 2024)

"DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower’s False Claims Act Lawsuit Involving Martin’s Point Healthcare," RACmonitor (April 3, 2024)

“The Death Toll of Whistleblowing Must End Now,” Newsweek (March 14, 2024) (with Amber Scorah and Jennifer Gibson)

“What If Your Organization’s Most Significant Cyber Threat Comes From Within? Enlisting the Help of Whistleblowers to Alert Organizas to the Potential for Cyber Fraud,” GRC Outlook (December 20, 2023)

"When Coding Creativity Turns Criminal," RACmonitor (December 13, 2021)

"Historic False Claims Act Settlement Tops $85 Million," RACmonitor (November 8, 2021)

“Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Whistleblowers,” The Anti-Fraud Coalition’s Fraud by the Numbers Series (September 15, 2022) with Liz Soltan

“Air Travel Could Be Much Safer With an Aviation Whistleblower Program. Congress Should Pass It Now,” Fortune (September 9, 2022) (with Ashley Kosak)

“How to Use Colorado’s New Whistleblower Statute,” The Pueblo Chieftain (July 3, 2022) with Ari Yampolsky

“Elon Musk Is Mocking Whistleblowers. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing,” Newsweek (January 14, 2022) with Poppy Alexander, Amber Scorah, and Ariella Steinhorn

“$25 Million Medicaid Settlement Reached Over Violations of False Claims Act in Massachusetts,” RACmonitor (November 4, 2021) (with Ronny Valdes)

“Government’s Crackdown on Risk Adjustment Fraud Continues,” RACmonitor (September 29, 2021) with Max Voldman

“Sutter Health: Latest Part C Participant to Settle on Whistleblower Allegations,” RACmonitor (September 22, 2021) with Max Voldman

“Fifth Circuit Affirms Government Dismissal of Cases Brought by Corporate Whistleblower,” RACmonitor (August 11, 2021) (with Leah Judge)

“Empowering Whistleblowers: The War in Ukraine Has Prompted Government to Get Serious About Tackling Money Laundering. But Whistleblowers Must Be at the Centre of AML Enforcement,” Ethical Boardroom Magazine (March 2021)

“The New BSA Whistleblower Provision – From the Whistleblowers’ Perspective,” Money Laundering Watch (March 9, 2021) (with Carolina Gonzalez)

"Kickbacks in the Medicare Advantage Program: $12.5 million Settlement in Whistleblower Case," RACmonitor (February 17, 2021) with Max Voldman

“New Settlement Demonstrates New Fraud Type in Medicare Advantage Program – Inflation of Bids,” RACmonitor (September 17, 2020)

“Pfizer Fights Back, Claiming First Amendment Right to Partake in Charitable Giving,” RACmonitor (August 12, 2020)

“Whistleblower Programmes – Making Cartel Detection More Effective,” Financier Worldwide (August 1, 2020) (with Richard Pike and Alicja Dijakiewicz-Kocon)

“A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Government’s Latest Stand Against Patient Kickbacks Disguised as Charity," RACmonitor (July 29, 2020)

"For Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Settling Allegations of Improper Payments Came at an Over $642 Million-Dollar Price," RACmonitor (July 9, 2020)

“The Science Sleuths Holding Fraudulent Research Accountable,” GOOD Magazine’s Pandemic Issue (July 2, 2020) (with Dr. Elisabeth Bik)

“Integra Med Analytics Loses Battle to Establish New Breed of Corporate Whistleblower Outsiders,” RACmonitor (June 4, 2020)

"EHR vendor Settles Landmark Case Alleging Acceptance of Kickbacks from Pharma Company to Steer Opioid Prescriptions," RACmonitor (March 4, 2020) (with Anne Hartman)

“Implementing the New EU Whistleblower Directive: A Transposition Guide for Journalists,” European Federation of Journalists (February 27, 2020) (with Carolina Gonzalez and Claudia Quiñones)

“Trump’s Whistleblower Tactics Are Straight Out of America’s Corrupt Corporate Playbook,” Quartz (November 8, 2019) with Ari Yampolsky

“Trump Attacks Endanger Whistleblower Protections,” East Bay Times (October 31, 2019) with Ari Yampolsky

"First major pharmaceutical executive convicted on criminal charges related to opioid crises," RACmonitor (June 19, 2019)

"Intermountain Drops Supreme Court Challenges to False Claims Act with Settlement of Whistleblower Suit," RACmonitor (June 5, 2019)

"US WorldMeds Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $17.5 Million," RACmonitor (May 29, 2019)

"MedStar Health Pays $35M to Settle Kickback Claims," RACmonitor (April 17, 2019)

"Community Health Systems, Medhost: Twin Targets of Whistleblower Lawsuit," RACmonitor (March 27, 2019)

"Walgreens Facing Whistleblower Lawsuit Over Medicaid Drug Pricing," RACmonitor (March 21, 2019)

"Court Poised to Rule on Motions to Dismiss Key Whistleblower Case," RACmonitor (February 21, 2019)

"Lawsuit by Policyholders Targets Anthem," RACmonitor (February 14, 2019)

"Opioid Lawsuit Targets Purdue Family and President as Defendants," RACmonitor (February 7, 2019)

"Intermountain Healthcare Seeks to Dismantle the DOJ’s Chief Civil Fraud Enforcement Tool," RACmonitor (January 24, 2019)

“Despite MAO’s Claims, Recent Decision Doesn’t Imperil DOJ and Whistleblower Risk Adjustment Cases,” RACmonitor (October 17, 2018)

“Puerto Rico Empowers Whistleblowers in Fight Against Hurricane-Recovery Fraud,” Miami Herald (October 1, 2018)

“Integra Med Analytics Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Providence Health & Services and J.A. Thomas and Associates,” RACmonitor (August 29, 2018)

“Hundreds of Medical Professionals Charged in Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in American History,” RACmonitor (July 19, 2018)

"Whistleblowers Often Face Retaliation for Exposing Healthcare Fraud," RACmonitor (June 20, 2018)

"Aetna Whistleblower Sues CVS’s Pharmacy Benefit Management Division for Spread Pricing," RACmonitor (June 13, 2018)

"Enterprising Nurse Whistleblower Helps Federal Government Secure Third Settlement Against Latest Healthcare System Target," RACmonitor (May 23, 2018)

"As Trump Announces New Plan on Opioids, DOJ is Already Hard at Work," RACmonitor (March 26, 2018)

“Scrutiny of Border Wall Project a Must,” Houston Chronicle (March 19, 2018)

"Case Against UnitedHealth Group for Alleged Inflation of Part C Risk Scores is Permitted to Proceed," RACmonitor (March 7, 2018)

“Loose Lips Save Ships,” The Maritime Executive (March 6, 2018) (with Phillip Brown)

"Lawsuit Against Epic Systems Dismissed as Other EHR Providers Face Legal Woes," RACmonitor (February 14, 2018)

"Whistleblower Alleges Epic Systems’ EHR Caused Double Billing," RACmonitor (November 29, 2017)

"Allegations of Medicare Advantage Fraud: A Deeper Dive," RACmonitor (October 25, 2017)

"Aftershocks of the Feds’ Big Bust: Lessons Learned," RACmonitor (July 20, 2017)

“Pollution Whistleblowers Can Earn Outsize Rewards,” The Maritime Executive (July 7, 2017) with Max Voldman

“Prescription for Chiropractors: Are Your Medicare Billing Procedures Out of Alignment?,” The American Chiropractor (April 1, 2017) with Chris McLamb

“The Risks and Rewards of Medical Loss Ratio Come to Managed Care,” Managed Healthcare Executive (March 12, 2015) (with Tim McCormack and Jessica T. Moore)

“EHRs: Computer Functions Facilitate Fraud,” AAPC Blog (May 1, 2014) (with Tim McCormack)

“Medicare Risk Adjustment: Financial Incentives May Lead to Bad Practices,” AAPC Blog (October 1, 2012) (with Tim McCormack)

Career

For the past 28 years, Mary Inman has focused her practice exclusively on the representation of whistleblowers worldwide seeking to report fraud and other forms of corporate wrongdoing under the ever increasing array of U.S., Canadian, U.K. and South Korean whistleblower reward programs. Starting with her three years working in London between 2017 and 2020, Mary has continued to develop expertise in representing international whistleblowers, including those seeking to file under the U.S. reward programs as well as those seeking to file in Canada, the U.K. and South Korea. Mary has been a frequent advisor to legislators, regulators and researchers in the U.S., U.K., E.U. and Australia on the history and operation of the U.S. whistleblower reward programs.

Together with her colleagues, Mary has pioneered a series of successful whistleblower cases against prominent health insurers, hospitals, provider groups and vendors alleging manipulation of the risk scores of Medicare Advantage patients. Among those cases include her representation of (1) the late Dr. Darren Sewell, M.D. in a successful $32.7 million settlement with Florida Medicare Advantage Organization Freedom Health and its COO, (2) Teresa Ross in an up to $100 million settlement with Independent Health and the former COO of now defunct coding vendor DxID, and (3) Dr. James Taylor, M.D. in a $581 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente.

In addition to healthcare fraud, Mary has helped two separate whistleblowers achieve successful False Claims Act settlements with fashion retailers The Pure Collection and Alexis LLC for alleged violations of U.S. customs laws. She has also represented successful whistleblowers who have helped the States of California and Nevada and their municipalities prosecute procurement fraud and receive settlements for the alleged provision of knowingly defective waterworks parts.

In the Tech space, Mary also has had the honor of representing renowned whistleblowers Tyler Shultz (Theranos), Frances Haugen (Facebook/Meta) and Mark MacGann (Uber).

Mary is a founding Board member of Psst.org, a nonprofit seeking to support and connect whistleblowers working in BigTech and frontier AI labs and collectivize the act of speaking out. She is also a passionate advocate for the promotion of the psycho-social health and wellbeing of whistleblowers.

Prior to becoming a whistleblower lawyer, Mary worked as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in San Francisco and clerked for the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

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