The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has created a new team of attorneys focused solely on litigation involving Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
The new team was announced at the American Health Lawyers Association’s annual meeting Tuesday, and aims to help fill an enforcement gap among attorneys handling civil penalty and exclusion cases, OIG officials said. Previously, attorneys worked on OIG-initiated litigation in addition to other cases.
“Lawyers used to have to wear multiple hats, and their attentions could get diverted,” Tony Maida, an attorney at McDermott Will & Emery LLP and a former deputy chief of the OIG’s administrative and civil remedies branch, told Bloomberg News.
Source: New OIG litigation team will tackle Medicare, Medicaid fraud cases – McKnight’s Long Term Care News