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During the annual meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association, representatives from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), announced the creation of a designated litigation team exclusively focused on civil monetary penalties and exclusion cases, with a particular focus on physicians. The OIG team will provide an Read more →

After the dentist received a subpoena and notice of investigation, the dentist hired Nicholson & Eastin, LLP to represent him with the Florida Department of Health. After consideration of the rebuttal statement prepared by the Firm, the Probable Cause Panel for the Board of Dentistry determined that probable cause did not exist and directed that Read more →

The Firm successfully convinced the Florida Department of Health to reject a claim of sexual misconduct made against the Firm’s physician client by a patient. The patient claimed that the physician inappropriately interacted with the patient during an office visit. The Firm’s rebuttal, which included affidavits from other witnesses and a polygraph examination of the Read more →

After consideration of the rebuttal statement prepared by the Firm on behalf of a Registered Nurse accused of diverting controlled substances, the Probable Cause Panel for the Board of Nursing determined that probable cause did not exist and directed that the case against a Registered Nurse be closed by the Florida Department of Health. The Read more →

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced effective January 31, 2014, a six-month moratorium continues for new and pending applications for home health agency providers and suppliers in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties and begins in Broward County. The moratorium, invoked under the Affordable Care Act, also affects other large metropolitan cities such as Read more →