Health Care Law
Premier Legal Defense and Support for Your Health Care Transactions & Litigation
Defend Your Livelihood with Exceptional Representation
Individuals and collective C-suites in the top echelon of the health care industry need a legal representative who understands the challenges they are facing.
If you are being investigated or facing litigation, you can’t afford to wait for your legal team to “get up to speed” – you need counsel who delivers candid, informed guidance so you can make the best possible decisions for your practice.
Led by former DOJ prosecutor Eliot Kreiger, SKT provides the defense and support you need to overcome any legal obstacles in your path. And while litigation is never cheap, SKT is a boutique firm that delivers the same results as larger ‘name-brand’ legal practices while remaining cost-effective for health care clients.
Why Professionals Choose SKT
Unmatched Experience
Litigators with a proven track record in high-stakes cases and highly-regulated industries
Boutique Accessibility
Candid, informed guidance is always available from SKT’s responsive and reliable counsel
Proactive Approach
Diligent and aggressive representation at every stage to secure the best possible outcome
Types of Health Care Law & Litigation
Business Transactions
- Formation of entities and business structures
- Physician and Medical Director contracts
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Negotiation of payor contracts
- Service agreements and vendor contracts
- Employment and independent contractor agreements
Litigation
- Licensure defense and appeals
- Medicare and Medi-Cal provider enrollment appeals
- Payor and reimbursement disputes
- Overpayment appeals
- False Claims Act/qui tam whistle-blower litigation defense
- Business and employment litigation
- Medicare and Medi-Cal exclusions and suspensions by government entities CMS
- Office of the Inspector General
- California Department of Health Care Services
Compliance
- Licensing, operational, and reimbursement compliance
- Medicare and Medi-Cal enrollment and changes of ownership
- Corrective action plans and other strategies
- Prepayment review
- Licensure citations and deficiencies
- Medicare and Medi-Cal enrollment errors
- Audit risk assessment
- Medical necessity of hospice claims
- Length of stays and number of nursing home patients
- Physician certifications and recertifications
- Local Coverage
- Determination compliance and documenting medical necessity
- Terminal status in routine hospice claims
- Special physician service claims
- Inpatient hospice claims
- Compliance with hospice cap
- HIPAA and state patient data privacy and security requirements False Claims Act compliance for marketing and business development activities
Regulatory Defense
- Department of Public Health licensure investigations and appeals
- Reimbursement audits by private and governmental payors and their contractors’ CMS
- Medicare
- Medi-Cal
- National Government Services
- Fraud and abuse investigations by government payors and their contractors
- Safeguard Services
- Office of Inspector General
- Federal Bureau of Investigations
- Department of Justice
- Department of Health Care Services
- Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse
- Audit defense
- Zone Program Integrity Contractor (“ZPIC”) (which replaced the Program
- Safeguard Contractors (PSC)
- Recovery Audit Contractor (“RAC”)
Getting Started with SKT
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Local College, Unjustly Accused
SKT represented a local college that was being unjustly accused of misusing federal funds The government froze over $3 5 million
SKT Case Studies
No Charges Filed in Anti-Kickback Investigation
Dr J came to SKT as he understood that FBI and HHS OIG was investigating him for anti kickback charges
A Tale of Two Sentences
Doug engaged SKT when he and his business partner Fred were arrested for allegedly defrauding elderly of their retirement The
SKT Case Studies
Local College, Unjustly Accused
SKT represented a local college that was being unjustly accused of misusing federal funds The government froze over $3 5 million of the school s
No Charges Filed in Anti-Kickback Investigation
Dr J came to SKT as he understood that FBI and HHS OIG was investigating him for anti kickback charges Once SKT was retained Mr
A Tale of Two Sentences
Doug engaged SKT when he and his business partner Fred were arrested for allegedly defrauding elderly of their retirement The amount of the fraud was
Frequently Asked Health Care Law Questions
Who does SKT represent in health care law cases?
- ACOs
- Billing Companies
- Clinical Labs
- DME Suppliers
- FQHCs
- Health Care Facilities
- Health Care Providers
- HMOs
- Home Health Agencies
- Hospice/Palliative Care
- Providers
- Hospitals
- Imaging Facilities
- IPAs
- Managed Care
- Organizations
- Medical Groups
- MSOs
- Other Practitioners
- Pharmacies
- Physicians
- Rehabilitation Facilities
- SNFs
- Substance Abuse Facilities
- Surgery Centers
- Urgent Care Centers