The Bass, Berry & Sims healthcare fraud task force and its attorneys were cited in an article titled “HEAT Rises on Health Care Fraud,” that was published in the April 20 edition of The Tennessean. The article chronicles the rise of investigations and prosecutions brought by the HEAT (the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team) against providers, hospitals and other groups abusing Medicare and Medicaid claims. As the article points out, “Since Nashville is a health care town, it is becoming a health care law town” with attorneys at Bass, Berry & Sims actively representing healthcare providers in top cases. To read the full article, click here.
In a separate article published on April 15 also in The Tennessean, Bass, Berry & Sims’ 2013 Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Review was cited as a source on the increased number of False Claims Act settlements in 2013. This article, titled “Physician Pay: What’s a Doctor Worth?” is available at this link.