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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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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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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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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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Threatened Medicare overpayments against 4 physicians amounting to several hundred thousand dollars abandoned by Medicare after Nicholson & Eastin, LLP appeal to CMS over erroneous interpretation of coverage determination by the Medicare carrier.  Robert Nicholson, managing attorney of the firm, travelled to CMS headquarters to make the case that the Medicare carrier was misapplying the national coverage determination regarding Read more →

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