Amanda S. Marshall
Former U.S. Attorney
(Local Counsel)
Lynette Byrd
Former Assistant
U.S. Attorney
Roger Bach
Former Special
Agent
(OIG & DEA)
Joe Brown
Former U.S. Attorney
Dr. Nick Oberheiden
Attorney & Founder
Is Telemedicine Unlawful?
How Medical Providers Can Protect Themselves in Telemedicine Investigations On April 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued sweeping indictments against telemedicine companies, marketing groups, durable medical equipment (DME) companies, doctors, and other individuals and organizations involved in the telemedicine industry. While the specific allegations underlying these indictments...
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Federal Authorities are Targeting Addiction Clinic Owners in Tricare Fraud Investigations Under the False Claims Act
Addiction clinics that serve military personnel, veterans, and their family members who are Tricare beneficiaries are at risk of being targeted in federal healthcare fraud investigations. In just one of many recent examples, on March 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a physician hired to serve...
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How Do I Protect My Assets in Healthcare Investigations?
Imagine you wake up one morning and discover that all of your personal and business accounts have been either taken or frozen by the federal government. Imagine the government emptying out all of your savings, including your 401(k) and other investment and retirement funds. Imagine your house being taken despite...
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Home Health Agency Compliance Lawyer
What Home Health Agencies Should Do to Avoid a Government Investigation Oberheiden, P.C. Attorneys-at-Law As a home health agency compliance law firm, Oberheiden, P.C. represents healthcare business owners, physicians, and companies using our experience to avoid and defend against healthcare fraud investigations. Undoubtedly, home health investigations and hospice care are...
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Federal Investigations of MSOs
Business Owners Under Investigation, Physician Licenses at Stake Management Services Organizations (MSOs) have served as a popular tool to seemingly legitimize physician-business joint ventures. The idea was simple: physicians own a portion in a company to which they do not refer any business, but, in return, receive prorated ownership distribution...
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Criminal Prosecutions of Psychiatrists
Benefit from Attorney Dr. Nick Oberheiden's Immense Healthcare Law Defense Experience: Hundreds of Audits and Federal Criminal Cases Against Doctors Resolved with No Charges: 888-680-1745 Dr. Nick Oberheiden is a federal criminal defense attorney routinely chosen by medical providers and business owners to avoid or defend against healthcare fraud allegations....
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What Are the Rules of Stark Law?
Physicians who bill Medicare and Medicaid for patient services are subject to numerous laws that are designed to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal healthcare reimbursement system. One of these laws is the Stark Law, which imposes substantial civil penalties for unlawful "self-referrals." As a physician, understanding the...
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What Physicians Need to Know About Lack of “Medical Necessity” Prosecutions
OIG, FBI, and DEA Agents Are Targeting Pharmacies—Your Pharmacy May Be Next Pharmacy owners have long heard of the raids, prosecutions, and indictments that occurred in the context of Tricare compound pharmacy investigations. Indeed, the years of 2016 and 2017 have seen a major enforcement action against those physicians, marketers,...
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Compound Pharmacy Investigations
How Doctors Turn Defendants for Causing Medically Unnecessary Services If there is one major trend in federal healthcare fraud investigations in 2018 and 2019, it is the criminal prosecutions of medical providers and healthcare business owners for rendering medically unnecessary services. This brief article addresses how physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, dentists,...
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What Is the Difference Between a Physician Self-Referral and a Kickback?
For physicians and other healthcare providers, navigating the statutory and regulatory restrictions on billing for reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and other government benefit programs presents some of the greatest challenges – and risks – when it comes to legal compliance. Among the laws that apply are the Physician Self-Referral...
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