Monday, December 7, 2015

Hire a Lawyer to Save Your Medical & Healthcare Career

Oftentimes, doctors and healthcare professionals face false accusations for having a role in some fraudulent or criminal offence. If the charges are proved to be true, their practice license can be snatched away from them, and because of which they might not be able to work as a medical practitioner throughout the country. If you are being questioned because of false...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Some of the very commonly seen instances of medicare fraud

The instances of healthcare fraud cause a massive financial loss to the federal government. At an estimate, calculated by a economics survey organization, the medicare scams slapped a hammering of around $272 billion in the financial year 2011-2012. The practitioners, the patients, the institutions – everyone has been involved in harming the interests and gains of the government. Shared...

Monday, September 7, 2015

Get a CMS Lawyer to Formulate a Strong Compliance Program

When the Government or the state issues regulations like the Compliance Program, as a health care professional or hospital you need to inculcate these programs and follow these set guidelines. Failure to do so might lead you to face a Recovery Audit contractor or the RAC. In view of such complications it is always better to have a CMS Lawyer on board to help you in formulating...

Seek Help From Medicare Fraud Lawyers When Faced with Extreme Situations

Do you really need a Compliance program? Sure the guidelines provided by the Government needs to you to do so but does it have any advantage to get it done through a professional Compliance attorney? The answer is yes. The RAC or the Recovery Audit Contractor is always on the lookout for institutions who have not already inculcated the guidelines into their system. It is...

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

CMS Lawyer & Peer Review Attorney: Helping you regain Your Professional Reputation

The law is there to do justice and help the righteous get favorable judgment. Unfortunately, few professionals misuse it and compel healthcare professionals to bear penalties for the crime they have not committed. Thankfully, CMS lawyer and the peer review attorney, respectively, are there to help such healthcare providers fall prey to false cases....

Hire a Qualified Lawyer for Doctors; Get Rid of the Medical Credentialing Case

Being a doctor in it is a prestigious matter considering the nature of job it accompanies. Patients almost praise the doctors for their speedy recovery from dreaded medical conditions. However, those suspecting the doctors to provide wrongful treatment or committing fraud do not hesitate in registering lawsuits against them either. Additionally many medical service providers face bans from maintaining credentials in various Preferred Provider Organizations...

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Consult an Experienced Peer Review Attorney When Your Privileges Are First Being Challenged Through Your Hospital’s Peer Review Process

A peer review attorney is a lawyer is one who has attained proficiency and experience in representing healthcare professionals in the peer review process. Kenneth Haber has such experience and uses a hospital’s medical staff Bylaws, our civil rights laws and any other legal mechanism to effectively represent his clien...

Mistakes to avoid when hiring a healthcare lawyer, attorney

When a healthcare practitioner hires a healthcare attorney, lawyer, he/she is actually exposed from two sides, if the attorney is not skilled in the practitioner’s areas of need; first, from the initial issues, associated with the case that brought the practitioner to seek a healthcare attorney to begin with; i.e., whether the practitioner needed to hire a compliance attorney, a peer review attorney, a credentialing attorney, a DEA attorney, a...

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Role of Peer Review and Healthcare Defense Attorney

The term attorney brings to our mind courtroom sessions, drama etc. typically that which we find on television. This is quite true to a great extent. A defense attorney is primarily an advocate for the accused whether he has solid charges against him or is falsely charged. The attorney has a major responsibility of keeping in mind the client’s best interests.  While scanning through the health care industry, being a service provider there...

Haberslaw Attorneys for Medical Malpractices

Over the last many years we have been assisting medical practitioners concerning various areas. With our experience and expertise we have been able to deal with a large number of legal healthcare issues. The health care sector is a booming industry and there has been a paradigm shift, from it being a service provider to being a monetary competitive one. This is one of the main reasons for more and more lawsuits being filed against health care service...

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Role & Significance of False Claims Attorney

Medicaid program runs jointly by state and federal governments to provide health care services to individuals with low income and resources. Such program usually covers nursing home care and personal home care services. In the past many years, there has been increase in cases of fraud and abuse in Medicaid programs. Such fraudulent acts include intentional misrepresentation of facts and figures to get unauthorized advantage. It also includes...

Choosing an Attorney for Medicaid Fraud Defense

Medicaid is a state program run to provide medical care to individuals with low income.  Medicare is the federal program providing medical care to old aged individuals. Medicare frauds refer to acts undertaken to make false healthcare claims. Such fraud schemes may include all or any of the following. ·         Misrepresentation of data on application ·         Loaning...

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Roles of a Medicare Fraud Defense Attorney

Medicare attorney is a specialist lawyer, who delves into the lawsuits related to the healthcare sector. Estimates assert that it is the healthcare sector that registers a great loss every year because of the prevalent fraudulent activities. Investigation teams are appointed by the government to spot the activities being performed by the healthcare professionals, and to verify the accusations of plaintiffs under the False Claims Act of the U.S....

A Brief History of False Claims Act

False Claims Act is a law or legal tool, envisioned by the US Government, which enables the third persons or relators to file cases against the individuals and organizations that are breaking the law or participating in illegal activities. The main objective of the law is to fight the prevalent corruption within the government bodies....

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

What is National Practitioner Data Bank?

It is the National Practitioners Data Bank Center that keeps the record of adverse actions taken against doctors, dentists, physicians, nurses, and other medical, healthcare and medicare professionals. It records if these practitioner’s privileges and licenses have ever been reduced, suspended or revoked due to their unprofessional conduct or incompetency. By and large, when the licenses of such practitioners get suspended or revoked,...

Monday, March 9, 2015

Why Would a Healthcare Practitioner Need a Medicare Fraud Defense Lawyer ?

Medical and Healthcare or Medicare professionals or practitioners do a really wonderful job curing their patients and keeping them healthy. They make every effort to cure their patients. However, just like the two sides of a coin, sometimes things may go wrong. There exist cases where in spite of the best intentions of the Medicare or medical practitioners things can go wrong and these are seen every day in the newspapers and on the news channels....

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Excellent CMS and Medical Staff Attorneys

Healthcare is all about providing the best service to patients. But someone must take good care of the healthcare providers and medical practitioners as well. There has to be someone who can assist them and provide them the best possible legal representation with the help of applicable statutes as well as with the unique skills and experiences they possess. As a former Assistant United States Attorney, a former Senior Attorney of the OIG and a...

Excellent Attorneys for Doctors

Medical practitioners and healthcare professionals need attorneys just as much and more than next professional. There are numerous avenues where attorneys can help medical practitioners in many ways in the physicians’ various specialties. This is why you find many physician healthcare attorneys, healthcare fraud attorneys, Medicare attorneys, CMS Attorneys and many more who work very hard on behalf of their clients – the medical practitioners...