Brian Kuester
Former U.S. Attorney
Lynette Byrd
Former Assistant
U.S. Attorney
John Sellers
Former DOJ
U.S. Attorney
Joe Brown
Former U.S. Attorney
(Local Counsel)
Dr. Nick Oberheiden
Attorney & Founder
Can the Government Take My Money in a Healthcare Fraud Case?
Recently, Federal Authorities have been Relying on a New Tactic to Target Healthcare Providers and Other Individuals and Organizations Accused of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Department of Labor (DOL) Fraud: Civil or Criminal Asset Forfeiture. As if healthcare providers and medical companies didn’t have enough to worry about. Although fraud...
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How Do I Protect My Assets in Healthcare Investigations?
Imagine you wake up one morning and discover that all of your personal and business accounts have been either taken or frozen by the federal government. Imagine the government emptying out all of your savings, including your 401(k) and other investment and retirement funds. Imagine your house being taken despite...
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Criminal Prosecutions of Psychiatrists
Benefit from Attorney Dr. Nick Oberheiden's Immense Healthcare Law Defense Experience: Hundreds of Audits and Federal Criminal Cases Against Doctors Resolved with No Charges: 888-680-1745 Dr. Nick Oberheiden is a federal criminal defense attorney routinely chosen by medical providers and business owners to avoid or defend against healthcare fraud allegations....
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What Physicians Need to Know About Lack of “Medical Necessity” Prosecutions
OIG, FBI, and DEA Agents Are Targeting Pharmacies—Your Pharmacy May Be Next Pharmacy owners have long heard of the raids, prosecutions, and indictments that occurred in the context of Tricare compound pharmacy investigations. Indeed, the years of 2016 and 2017 have seen a major enforcement action against those physicians, marketers,...
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What Kinds of Billing and Coding Errors Constitute Healthcare Fraud?
What are the consequences if you or your billing administrator commits a billing or coding error that results in an unjustified payment from Medicare, Medicaid, or Tricare? While you might assume that this type of honest mistake could be remedied fairly easily, in today's world of aggressive healthcare fraud enforcement,...
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Glossary: Understanding Your Federal Healthcare Fraud Investigation
Is your business or practice being targeted in a federal healthcare fraud investigation? If so, the federal healthcare fraud defense team at Oberheiden, P.C., is here to help. From acronyms to legalese, when you are facing a federal healthcare fraud investigation, you are likely to hear various terms with which...
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What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know About Healthcare Fraud
Oberheiden, P.C. Protects the License and Freedom of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Healthcare Providers Across the U.S. Mental health professionals have become prime targets of aggressive insurance audits and federal fraud investigations. Overzealous auditors and prosecutors under pressure to deliver new defendants are accusing psychologists and psychiatrists of a variety of...
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Portland Healthcare Fraud
Being under investigation for or charged with healthcare fraud can have a catastrophic effect on a Portland provider's reputation, career, and livelihood. If you have been charged with healthcare fraud, you need to call the experienced federal healthcare defense team of Oberheiden, P.C. Our attorneys have decades of experience defending...
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What Internal Medicine Doctors Need to Know About Healthcare Fraud
Get the Trusted Oberheiden, P.C. Attorneys on Your Team Today Internal medicine specialists have become prime targets of invasive ZPIC audits, federal fraud investigations, and Medicare billing extrapolations. Today, maintaining a successful internal medicine practice may attract unwanted government attention. Computer systems, literally, identify which doctors to target based on...
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Fraud Investigations
Federal Prosecutors Have Raided Medicaid and Medicare Providers for Alleged Fraud in Connection with Oxygen Therapy Devices Medicare and Medicaid reimburse well for hyperbaric oxygen therapy devices and several business owners and providers have promoted the idea to beneficiaries. Unfortunately, however, the dispensing of oxygen devices is a decision of...
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