Hospitals / Employees

Florida Hospital Fraud Attorneys

Defending Individuals and Corporations on Health Care Fraud

The Law Offices of Mark L. Horwitz, a Professional Association, has represented a number of hospital employees and officers and employees of medical practices in Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases, as well as many physicians and employees caught up in the investigation. Based in Orlando, Florida, we have handled cases statewide and across the United States.

Involved in a federal investigation of a hospital's alleged fraud? Call 407.401.7224 or 866.784.0023 to arrange a confidential consultation.

In some instances, both the hospital and individuals are charged criminally, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the False Claims Act, or other federal laws, including RICO for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Our hospital fraud defense lawyers emphasize early intervention at the civil audit stage to try to prevent criminal indictments. We also represent clients in related civil RICO lawsuits.

Our experienced criminal defense trial lawyers have represented all of the following:

• Medical practices and hospital employees
• Doctors and physician groups
• Medical services directors
• Managers and employees of hospital accounting and billing departments

We can capably respond to all allegations, including billing for services not provided, billing for unnecessary services, upcoding and other over-billing, falsified documents, obstruction of justice (destroying evidence), filing false cost reports, or illegal kickbacks to referring providers.

Hospital Fraud — We advise employees, officers, and medical directors of hospitals. Federal charges can result in mandatory prison terms for conviction and hundreds of thousands in fines for individuals and the hospital charged with fraud. Civil RICO lawsuits can expose the hospital or clinic to treble damages. We strive to convince the government not to take any action against our clients, or in the alternative, we argue for non-prosecution agreements, a pre-trial diversion to forego criminal prosecution against the client in exchange for fines and restitution.

But a non-prosecution agreement with the hospital does not prevent the government from charging individuals criminally. It's important to know that the hospital's legal counsel, though sympathetic to doctors and staff, is looking out for the interests of the corporation. Individuals caught up in hospital fraud will need their own legal counsel, and the earlier in the process the better.

Notable Results:

• The Law Offices of Mark L. Horwitz, a Professional Association represented the accountants of Healthcare Corporation of America in a major fraud case alleging improper filing of cost reports by the accounting department. Our clients were never charged with any crime.
• We represented a doctor under investigation for billing Medicare for patient services actually provided by a physician's assistant. The three-year investigation concluded without prosecution — we defended the doctor based on the grounds that the doctor's supervision of the physician's assistant was proper and that if any billings errors occurred they were not intentional.

Contact our experienced hospital fraud attorneys today at 407.401.7224 or 866.784.0023 to arrange a consultation to discuss how we can help avert prosecution or avoid the worst consequences.