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Practice Areas
Health Care Law
White Collar Crime
Complex Civil Litigation
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Robert A. Griffith manages the firm’s health law practice
area. Mr. Griffith began his career as an Assistant Attorney General in
the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and was assigned to the
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, one of the first such units in the country.
With over twenty five years experience as a trial attorney in this
specialized area of law, Mr. Griffith has participated in over 280
health care fraud and abuse investigations and prosecutions in no fewer
than seventeen different state and federal jurisdictions, and has tried
numerous health care fraud and abuse cases on the federal and state
level. Mr. Griffith specializes in the representation of health care
providers in all matters concerning fraud and abuse investigations and
prosecutions, overpayment demands, billing, compliance, and professional
discipline.
Since entering private practice in 1982, Mr. Griffith has represented
hospitals, psychiatric facilities and institutions, physicians, group
practices, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies,
walk-in centers, nursing homes, durable medical equipment providers,
home health agencies, dentists, nurses, podiatrists, psychologists,
social workers, and veterinarians. Mr. Griffith is the author of
numerous articles, book chapters on health law topics in the area of
fraud and abuse and a frequent speaker at health law continuing
education programs for the legal and medical professions. In June 2000,
the American Health Lawyers Association published Mr. Griffith’s
practice guide entitled Fraud & Abuse Investigations Handbook for the
Healthcare Industry. Robert A. Griffith has served on the Board of
Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association and the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Mental Health Advisors Committee.
Mr. Griffith is a former Chairperson of the Massachusetts Bar
Association's Health Law Section and the Medicine and Law Committee of
the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.
NEWS
CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS
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Assistant Attorney
General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
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Former Chairperson of
the Massachusetts Bar Association's Health Law Section.
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Formerly served on
the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association.
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Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court’s Mental Health Advisors Committee
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Former Chairperson of
the Massachusetts Bar Association's Health Law Section and the
Medicine.
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Former Chairperson of
the Law Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the
American Bar Association.
SELECTED PUBLICATONS
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Co-author,
"Fraud & Abuse Investigations Handbook for the Healthcare Industry”
(American Health Lawyers Association, 2000)
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"Defending
Physicians Before Boards of Registration of Medicine, Health Law
Handbook" (Alice Gosfield, ed., 1994, Clark, Boardman, Callaghan)
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Legal
Analysis: "United States v. Levin: Entrapment by Estoppel Doctrine
Applied in Medicare Reimbursement
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Resisting Disclosure of Mental Health Records During Medicaid
Investigations and Audits, Medical Staff Counselor, Fall, 1991
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Techniques for Defending Health Care Fraud and Abuse Cases, Medical
Staff Counselor, Spring, 1990
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Collateral Sanctions for Criminal Convictions in the Medicare and
Medicaid Programs, Medical Staff Counselor, Summer, 1990
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"Preparing
for Trial," Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Enforcement and Compliance,
American Health Lawyers Association, 1997
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"Practice Issues," Health Care Fraud and Abuse" National Health
Lawyers Association, 1996
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Representing Health Care Providers charged with Fraud and Abuse,"
Massachusetts Bar Association, 1994; Liability Beyond
Malpractice--Statutory and Regulatory Obligations of Physicians,
American Bar Association, National Institute, 1994
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Understanding
Institutional Rights and Obligations in Fraud and Abuse Cases,
Massachusetts Hospital Association, 1994
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Medical
Records, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1994
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Defending Physicians Against Medicare and Medicaid Penalties and
Other Collateral Sanctions, American Bar Association, National
Institute, 1993
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Nuts and Bolts of an Appellate Review Proceeding, National Health
Lawyers Association, 1991
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Defending Fraud and Abuse Cases, National Health Lawyers
Association, 1989
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Physician
Sanctions, Understanding and Avoiding Penalties, National Health
Lawyers Association, 1989
LECTURES/PUBLIC SPEAKING
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MCLE "Health Law"
- Boston, MA;
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Fundamentals
of Health Law
- Sept. 2007,
Chicago, IL;
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American Health
Lawyers In-House Counsel Program Lecture on Fraud and Abuse - June
2001, Orlando, FL
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Instructor: "White Collar Criminal Cases," Long Term Care and the
Law, American Health Lawyers Association, 1998.
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