Whistle blowers key in efforts to curb healthcare fraud

USA Today (2/23, Kennedy) reports, ." USA continues, "A bipartisan coalition backed strengthening the False Claims Act in 2009, and the Obama administration pushed for more money and tougher fraud-fighting provisions in the 2010 health care law, said Tony West, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's civil division. The health care law 'allows us to use it more effectively,' West said of the False Claims Act." West said that whistle-blower suits are one of the primary tools the department uses to fight fraud