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An unexpected consequence of health care reform could be coming to your favorite practitioner's office soon, and a Tampa Bay area law firm is already gearing up for the prospect.
Trenam Kemker has established a health care audit defense practice group, based in its St. Petersburg office. The group is dedicated solely to helping clients deal with growing non-criminal health care audits by state and federal agencies.
“These cases aren't as sexy as feds seizing documents and execs doing perp walks,” says Michael Igel, a Trenam Kemker attorney focused on health care and business transactions. “But audits are becoming the next big issue in health care.”
These audits are typically sparked by errors in billing procedures, Igel explains, though most cases end up being a matter of mistakes instead of deliberate fraud. Unfortunately, smaller health care providers — such as doctors, dentists and pharmacists — are finding themselves targets of such probes.
“We're not talking only about behemoth health care companies,” he says. “Chances are your family doctor is, or will soon find himself, ensnarled in such audits.”
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