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.

Similarly, such a failure can be considered a case of fraud, manslaughter or reckless endangerment when allegations of intentional wrongdoing are made by a patient’s family or next of kin. If a crime is alleged, a medical or Medicare fraud defense lawyer will have to deal with the case.If a patient is a victim of such incidents or instances, he or she has the right to take the medical doctor to the court, and receive justice. If patient ‘A’ receives wrongful treatment by the medical or hospital staff that includes doctor, nurse, surgeon, and dentist, he can drag them to the court; if it is intentional wrongdoing, it is fraud. If it is unintentional substandard care, due to the carelessness and inattention of a doctor, and some injury happens to ‘A’, during the treatment at the hospital or the nursing home, then the claim may be for negligence. Anything that is below the standard of care (that could be harmful) from the hospital staff makes them liable for legal action. If there was intentional wrongdoing, there could be a claim of fraud or similar criminal charge.

Sometimes, a practitioner may prescribe or dispense for you a wrong dose of drugs or a wrong drug. This is also a serious case. When you feel that you have been suffering during your ailment, because of the misconduct of a healthcare professional, you have to decide what you believe has happened and be guided accordingly. Was it intentional, negligence, or just sometimes, things just do not go as desired. 

In any case when allegations are made against a healthcare practitioner, a Medicare fraud defense lawyer would work with the healthcare practitioner during court or administrative hearings. By consulting a Medicare fraud defense attorney, a practitionerwould discuss the matter before the start of any proceedings and attempt to prevent them from tainting his client’s reputation. The lawyer will help the practitioner comprehend the laws and make correct decisions. He would make sure that the practitioner does not lose his right to justice and fair dealing by the system. For further information, call the Law Office of Kenneth Joel Haber, PC, 301-670-0016.