On April 1, 2016, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Houston psychiatrist had been sentenced to 144 months in prison for her role in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme. The psychiatrist, Sharon Inglehart, formerly served as attending...Read More
While Tricare, the health insurance program for U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families, stopped paying for specialized pain creams supplied by compounding pharmacies in May 2015, efforts by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of other federal...Read More
In recent months, officials at several major hospice facilities around the country have been convicted of (or pled guilty to) Medicare fraud charges stemming from end of life care. In the most recent, an official of a Chicago hospice facility...Read More
More and more, businesses that depend upon federal payments for goods and services defense contractors, Medicare health care providers, those providing medical services to service personnel via Tricare, and the like face a perfect storm when a disgruntled former employee...Read More
In certain situations, it can be in a criminal defendant’s best interests to cooperate with the government. At the The Criminal Defense Firm, we generally advise our clients to cooperate in two specific types of circumstances: The first is when...Read More
One of the most important questions to ask if you are facing federal cocaine charges is what the statutory sentence would be in the worst-case scenario of a conviction at trial. The attorneys of the The Criminal Defense Firm have...Read More
Generally speaking, accepting a plea bargain prevents you from filing an appeal. However, if you accepted a plea deal and later realized that it was not in your best interests, you may be able to appeal your conviction and sentence...Read More
Tricare fraud involves the submission of false and fraudulent reimbursement claims for healthcare services provided to patients under the federal Tricare program. The government currently investigates approximately $50 billion in “suspicious” Tricare reimbursement claims every year. Unfortunately, due to the...Read More
Tricare fraud is a serious federal offense, with penalties ranging from civil monetary damages to years of incarceration. The federal government is aggressively prosecuting Tricare fraud cases, and if you have been accused of Tricare fraud, there is no time...Read More
Tricare is one of the three primary federal government medical benefit programs. Federal law enforcement agencies have long focused on combating Medicare fraud and Department of Labor (DOL) fraud; but, until relatively recently, they paid little attention to Tricare. Lately,...Read More
