Our federal criminal defense team helped secure a victory in the United States vs. Bothra case, equaling a $450M Acquittal. Here’s how they..
In 2022, prosecutors charged a pharmacy owner with $14.5 million Medicare kickbacks. They alleged they paid kickbacks to telemarketing …….
A Kentucky pain physician is acquitted of a nine-count indictment, including Unlawful Distribution and Health Care Fraud.
CMS contractor found an ophthalmology practice liable for a $444k overpayment. A successful Level 2 Reconsideration turned the tables on CMS.
When the Government alleged a $454 million healthcare fraud scheme, our defense lawyers fought the indictment to achieve an acquittal.
Our attorneys successfully argued for “compassionate release” of a 70-year-old convicted of healthcare fraud because of COVID-19 and his health.
A Medicare plan administrator sought $250,000 from an ophthalmology practice for the wrong reimbursement rate, but an arbitrator ruled that the contract stood.
Our client, Dr. S. S., a family medicine physician from Macomb, Michigan, was raided in 2017 and ultimately charged with nine felonies by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. Each count was punishable by up to seven years in prison. The charges were related to unlawful distribution of Hydrocodone and Suboxone prescriptions with accusations that they were unnecessary.
In Michigan State court the defendant is able to take the case to preliminary examination. This is a process in which the state must put on enough evidence to proceed to charge a felony count. Most attorneys waive such an examination, we don’t. This is a valuable process to test the evidence and attempt to convince the judge that no wrongdoing has occurred. Most importantly, we needed to test the Government’s expert – Timothy Munzing and his lack of knowledge of Michigan Family Practice.
Mr.Munzing was a frequent government expert witness, and due to our depth of knowledge in this arena we were aware of multiple instances of false statements made by Mr.Munzing in prior cases. The state was forced to put him on the witness stand during the preliminary exam to prove their allegations. Our Federal Criminal Defense Attorney cross examined Mr.Munzing for three days. During this cross examination the witness crumbled showing that he applied the same standard regardless of specialty in all cases and that his standard for what constitutes acceptable medicine was more stringent than the State of Michigan required.
In the end, the state court judge dismissed most of the felony counts only allowing a few to go forward but stating that the government’s case was hanging by the “skin of its teeth”. Seeing the complete destruction of its case, the government agreed to settle the matter with a misdemeanor plea and a $300 fine. This most certainly was a face saving measure for the State of Michigan and resulted in no collateral impact to our client, Dr. S. S.
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Our federal criminal defense team helped secure a victory in the United States vs. Bothra case, equaling a $450M Acquittal. Here’s how they..
In 2022, prosecutors charged a pharmacy owner with $14.5 million Medicare kickbacks. They alleged they paid kickbacks to telemarketing …….
A Kentucky pain physician is acquitted of a nine-count indictment, including Unlawful Distribution and Health Care Fraud.
CMS contractor found an ophthalmology practice liable for a $444k overpayment. A successful Level 2 Reconsideration turned the tables on CMS.
When the Government alleged a $454 million healthcare fraud scheme, our defense lawyers fought the indictment to achieve an acquittal.
Our attorneys successfully argued for “compassionate release” of a 70-year-old convicted of healthcare fraud because of COVID-19 and his health.
A Medicare plan administrator sought $250,000 from an ophthalmology practice for the wrong reimbursement rate, but an arbitrator ruled that the contract stood.
