Green & Associates

Green & Associates is a legal publisher that focuses on white collar crime, health care law, and fraud-related legal issues. Their content often covers federal and state prosecutions involving tax evasion, health care fraud, illegal prescription practices, embezzlement, and false claims against Medicare. The publisher provides case studies, legal analysis, and commentary on recent court decisions and settlements, particularly in areas such as nonprofit compliance, compounding pharmacy regulations, opioid prescription standards, and skilled nursing facility billing practices. Their posts aim to inform legal professionals and businesses about risks, regulatory compliance, and lessons learned from enforcement actions and litigation.

Compounding pharmacies have been under intense scrutiny by Medicare, private third-party insurance and workers’ compensation insurance carriers for almost ten years. The criminal cases take so long to investigate and prosecute that there is a significant lag time between the…

The problem with physicians prescribing opioid drugs to patients where there is not a proper medical and prescription history taken, lack of a proper medical examination to confirm the legitimacy of patients’ pain complaints, and failure to assess the risk…

As attorneys specializing in white collar crime, we have represented businesses who wanted help in presenting a fraud case to the local police or FBI as well as representing those who have been charged with such offenses. Recently, a controller for…

Qui Tam Case Involving SNFs

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) which offer rehabilitation therapy services have a large number of billing specific rules and regulations. The charting for the SNFs is also demanding on the staff. Issues with charting and following

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The government has been investigating pharmacies that dispense and bill compound creams for the past 5 years as well as the marketing companies that work with them. Much of the focus has been on billings to workers’ compensation carriers or

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On January 17, 2020, Dr. Faustino Bernadett, a physician who is also the former owner of Pacific Hospital in Long Beach hospital
was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for “misprision of a felony.” That is a fancy word for saying

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