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No Indictment in Health Care Fraud Investigation

Posted on Firm News October 25, 2012 by author

Three years after having been identified as a target of a federal grand jury investigation and being told that an indictment on health care fraud charges was imminent, grand jury investigation closes with no charges against the Firm’s client after Nicholson & Eastin, LLP mount aggressive pre-indictment defense. During the pre-indictment grand jury investigation, Robert Read more →

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Medicaid Overpayment Successfully Challenged

Posted on Firm News September 25, 2012 by author

An overpayment assessment by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration against a  physical, occupational and speech therapy practice represented by Nicholson & Eastin, LLP was reduced by nearly 60% following a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge.  During the hearing, Nicholson & Eastin, LLP attorney Erin Bengele aggressively attacked the basis for the overpayment, citing multiple Read more →

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Medicare Exclusion Action Successfully Defended

Posted on Firm News August 31, 2012 by author

Parker Eastin, Partner at Nicholson & Eastin LLP, persuaded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to close their investigation into and attempts at implementing a Medicare exclusion of a provider following a federal criminal conviction.  Mr. Eastin successfully argued that the conviction was unrelated to the provider’s practice of medicine, and that the criminal conviction was only a Read more →

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Medical License Investigation Closed with No Action

Posted on Firm News July 18, 2012 by author

DOH investigation of pain management physician’s medical license closed after Nicholson & Eastin, LLP demonstrate that the physician did not violate the medical practice act or the controlled substance laws.  After submitting a point-by-point rebuttal of the allegations regarding the handling and prescribing of controlled substances contained in the DOH notice of investigation, the DOH closed the investigation Read more →

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Revocation of DEA Registration Reversed

Posted on Firm News June 20, 2012 by author

DEA reverses revocation of pharmacy controlled substance registration after Nicholson & Eastin, LLP argues that the revocation was done without authority.  The attorneys at Nicholson & Eastin, in a demand letter for rescission of the revocation, pointed out that the regulation DEA relied upon in imposing the revocation did not authorize the action under the facts of the particular case.  After Read more →

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