Florida Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Compliance Lawyers
Current healthcare fraud and abuse laws and regulations are cumbersome and difficult to understand. It is easy for healthcare providers to misinterpret the intentions of the law. Unfortunately, even innocent mistakes can result in an unsettling and complex government investigation.
Our lawyers strive to alleviate and even prevent some of the stress and confusion of healthcare fraud and abuse. Our approach and scope of services in this area is threefold:
- Analysis – We conduct internal compliance audits, prepare compliance plans and provide training as needed.
- Counseling – We assist our clients with putting together transactions such as establishing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), analyzing physician compensation and medical director arrangements, setting up diagnostic imaging providers, and drafting shareholder agreements and governing documents to ensure that they are compliant.
- Defense – If a healthcare provider becomes the target of an investigation, our experienced team can provide defense and advise our client about the necessity of corrective action. We are experienced in front of federal and state agencies and tribunals in the fraud and abuse arena.
Our lawyers can apply this threefold approach and scope to help you with issues involving:
- Federal and Florida government investigations/audits
- Compliance plans
- Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement matters
- Healthcare fraud and abuse provisions under HIPPA
- The Stark Law
- Federal Anti-Kickback Statute
- Federal False Claims Act
- Florida False Claims Act
- Florida Patient Self Referral Act
- Florida Patient Brokering Act
- Florida fee-splitting prohibitions
- Voluntary self-disclosures
- Internal investigations/audits
- Qui tam or whistleblower cases
- Accusations of up coding, billing for services not rendered and unbundling
- Medicare HMOs
We have significant experience in defending healthcare fraud and abuse investigations by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Medical Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Attorney Michael R. Lowe is Board-Certified in Health Law by the Florida Bar.
To speak to a lawyer at our firm about healthcare fraud and abuse compliance, call us at 407-332-6353 or contact us online.
