Proactive Legal Representation Dedicated to Protecting Your Freedom and Career With new opioid cases cropping up each and every day, every medical professional who deals with prescription painkillers needs to be on high alert for DEA inspections, search warrants, and...Read More
If You Work in Health Care, the Right Response to DEA Agents Can Make All the Difference It’s a horrific image for anyone in health care: DEA agents knocking on your front door, holding a search and seizure warrant with...Read More
A Guide for Physicians, Medical Business Owners, and Other Health Care Professionals It can happen when Cigna, Blue Cross, Aetna, or some other health insurance provider declines to pay for one of your services. It can happen when your office...Read More
Three Mobile Lab Owners Busted in Brooklyn: What Their Case Can Tell Us about Mobile Lab Fraud Defense The federal government has made clear its commitment to throwing the proverbial book at medical laboratories suspected of unethical billing practices. Not...Read More
How Prosecutors Use a Powerful Statute to Charge Doctors with Small Roles in Fraud Cases There may be no more powerful tool in the federal prosecutorial arsenal than the conspiracy charge. Federal conspiracy law empowers prosecutors to charge defendants with...Read More
Why the Feds Are Second-Guessing Bills from Mobile X-Ray and Imaging Companies Over the last two decades, state and federal governments have devoted more resources than ever to investigating health care fraud and initiating enforcement actions. These actions are principally...Read More
Prescription Painkiller Abuse Is Causing Care Providers to Be Targeted Unfairly The United States is very much in the midst of a serious opioid crisis, and so much of the blame is being directed at doctors. Late last year, the...Read More
Pain Mills Are the New Pill Mills. Anyone Working in a Pain Clinic Must Be Cautious. We’ve all heard the term “pill mills.” It’s something of a buzzword in the news these days. It’s a convenient, catch-all scapegoat for the...Read More
How the Latest DOJ Takedown Illustrates the Need for Strong Ambulance Fraud Defense AmeriCare is the largest ambulance services company in Tampa, Florida. And Tampa just happens to be one of the nine metros in the United States with the...Read More
Why Doctors and Pharmacists Should Be More Watchful Than Ever The words “health care crackdown” are enough to elicit a hush in just about any doctor’s office or medical supply company, and for good reason. There are only so many...Read More