Medical Fraud
Los Angeles Medicaid and Medicare Fraud Lawyers
Welfare & Institutions Code 14014
As health care becomes an increasingly concern, more lawsuits are filed against health care providers. Meanwhile, laws relating to these lawsuits constantly change. Any health care provider accused of fraud must hire the best defense attorneys available or risk losing their business to ill founded charges. Contact Our Team to discuss your case with an experienced Los Angeles health care fraud defense attorney.
Our defense attorneys represent doctors/physicians, medical clinics, hospitals, and other health care companies throughout the United States that are facing allegations involving:
- Medicare fraud
- Medicaid fraud
- Health insurance fraud
- Medical billing fraud
- Other health care fraud
One of the more common charges that Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers must deal with is Medicare fraud/Medicaid fraud. The federal government is vigilant in trying to catch institutions for various forms of health care fraud, Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, including:
- Trying to bill for services not rendered.
- Prescribing and billing unnecessary services or procedures.
- Creating fraudulent cost reports.
- Making kickbacks or self referrals.
- Prescribing or billing unnecessary medical equipment.
- Prescribing or billing medical equipment which is not provided.
- Other health care fraud tactics.
Our Los Angeles Criminal Attorneys Can Help!
First and foremost, you need an attorney with extensive experience in the federal criminal system. Ideally, your attorney should focus exclusively on federal criminal defense.
Second, you need a defense team, not just a single attorney. Your team needs to be thorough, fast and responsive. The feds almost always have a head start against you in case preparation, so your team needs to catch up quickly to level the playing field.
The best time to get a defense team is when you first learn that you are under investigation. Even if the investigation is centered around someone else, if federal agents are talking to you, you need expert counsel immediately.
If charges have not yet been filed, our first goal is to prevent charges from being filed. We have a variety of specific techniques we use to accomplish this.
If charges are filed against you in federal court, it is critical that you have a defense team, not just an individual lawyer. Your defense team must have extensive trial experience in the federal court system. The federal courts are quite different from state courts not only in their procedures but also in the defense strategies and potential punishments.
