What Do Healthcare Providers Need to Know about Tricare Audits and Investigations?
For healthcare providers who serve military servicemembers, veterans, and their families, ensuring compliance with the Tricare billing requirements is just as important as complying with the Medicare and Medicaid regulations. Even if treating Tricare beneficiaries makes up only a relatively small percentage of your practice, you are held to the...
Read moreCGX & PGX Fraud Investigations
Toxicology laboratories that work with telemedicine companies and marketing groups to identify Medicare beneficiaries and obtain testing orders can receive tens of millions of dollars per month in program-reimbursed funds. This makes them prime targets for federal healthcare fraud investigations. Toxicology laboratories play a central role in modern healthcare. Once...
Read moreCGX, PGX, and Other Testing Laboratories are on the Front Lines of Telemedicine Fraud Investigations
Why Have Over 2,000 Clients Trusted Us? Are you being investigated for CGX or PGX fraud? Are you stressed and concerned about your rights, your reputation and your livelihood? Let me put your mind at ease. We have handled over 2,000 federal cases and we know the best strategy to...
Read moreWhat Physicians and Pharmacies Need to Know About Drug Diversion and Opioid Investigations
Effective License Protection and DEA Criminal Defense Physicians call attorney Dr. Nick Oberheiden to find out if their practice is safe or whether they may be under the government's radar. The concerns are real in light of the many reports of physicians charged with criminal violations of the Control Substances...
Read moreInvestigating Healthcare Fraud Through A Civil Investigative Demand (CID)
A common approach federal authorities use to investigate healthcare fraud is through civil investigative demands (CID). CIDs are requests for documentation that prosecutors issue in connection with a federal investigation. Compliance with CIDs is required regardless of whether the recipient is charged with a violation or is personally under investigation. ...
Read moreHow to Avoid Criminal Charges in DEA Drug Diversion and Opioid Investigations
Why Have Over 2,000 Clients Trusted Us? Have you been arrested or are you concerned about being arrested? Are you stressed and concerned about your rights, your reputation and your livelihood? Let me put your mind at ease. We have handled over 2,000 federal cases and we know the best...
Read morePreparing Medical Practices for an Encounter with the DEA: War on Opioids
How Your Patients Can Get You in Trouble In the context of the government's war against opioid prescribers, the likelihood that your practice will have an encounter with DEA agents has never been higher. Virtually every day somewhere in the United States, law-enforcement teams of DEA and FBI agents show...
Read moreMedical Disability Fraud
Skilled National Law Firm Representing People Accused of Medical Fraud Crimes If you have been accused of fraud after claiming disability benefits — whether from the government, your employer, or a private insurer — you should know that medical disability fraud is a serious crime with severe penalties. If...
Read moreWhat Is Drug Diversion?
PLEASE NOTE: Oberheiden P.C only serves medical providers in drug diversion cases. Drug diversion in the context of controlled substances occupies a major priority of current federal law enforcement. Almost no day goes by without new reports of arrest, DEA search warrants, and charges involving narcotics and other controlled prescription...
Read moreJustice Department Likely to Target Pain Management “Pill Mills” in 2018
Effective Federal "Pill Mill" Defense Lawyers With the nation's opioid crisis continuing to garner headlines, federal prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and other agencies are aggressively targeting those who supply drugs to opioid-dependent individuals. While this includes drug dealers who sell heroin and fentanyl, it also includes...
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