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Penalties for Healthcare Fraud

This guide to healthcare fraud penalties explains what medical providers need to know about the the factors that determine their healthcare fraud sentence. Explore how the law handles healthcare fraud sentencing with Lowther | Walker's healthcare fraud defense team. [...]

Protect Assets During Healthcare Fraud Investigations

Learn how to protect your healthcare business assets while complying with federal laws during an investigation. Request a free, confidential call with Lowther | Walker when you have healthcare defense questions. [...]

What Are the Penalties for Home Healthcare Fraud?

Home healthcare providers face increasing regulatory scrutiny as the government places more resources into Medicare fraud investigations. Home healthcare fraud carries severe penalties under federal law. Providers should understand the penalties and the potential impact of healthcare fraud charges on their careers. Lowther | Walker helps safeguard home healthcare providers facing federal investigations, charges, and [...]

A Guide to Responding to Healthcare Insurance Audits for Medical Providers

Are you a doctor facing a healthcare fraud audit or a healthcare insurance audit? Are auditors questioning your missing patient data or improper billing codes? Did federal investigators request files from your medical office? The data shows that approximately 70% of healthcare fraud cases originate from ineffective handling of insurance audits. This latest post from [...]

Healthcare Billing Compliance: A Guide for Medical Practices

Healthcare billing and coding represent critical compliance areas for medical practices. Proper billing practices are essential for maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and ensuring regulatory compliance to avoid medical billing fraud charges.  At Lowther | Walker, we help healthcare providers establish and maintain robust billing compliance programs, protecting their practices against potential exposure to federal [...]

What Kinds of Billing Practices Constitute Healthcare Fraud?

With increasing federal resources allocated to healthcare fraud investigations, your healthcare firm’s billing practices must be faultless. In running your healthcare practice, you may not have a clear insight into the billing procedures that lead to a federal investigation and potentially criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud.  Lowther | Walker’s experience in healthcare fraud billing investigations [...]