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. Government.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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, it is because
of their professional misconduct or incompetency.
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. Sometimes, doctors, even
after their best efforts are unable to cure the disease and every attempted
treatment of their patient fails. This practice failure can bring serious
consequences in patient’s ward as well as in the practitioner or physician’s
professional career. Medical malpractice attorneys are needed to defend the
physician or practitioner when the matter is based upon negligence or
unintentional wrongdoing.
