News & Press Releases

This feature story discusses how Medicaid’s unique federal-state structure is a significant challenge to recovering inappropriate payments to doctors by the states. This challenging process has led to approximately $2 billion in overpayments for the past eight years not being recovered. Mintz’s Ellyn Sternfield, a former director of the Oregon Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, provides commentary in the piece.

Member and Chair of Mintz’s Litigation Practice Scott Ford is among the local Boston sources providing commentary in this Law360 feature article on what trends and cases to watch in Massachusetts this year.

This feature article recounts the stories of eight Los Angeles-area attorneys who – at varying stages in their lives and for a varying reasons – made their way to the U.S. Ralph Campillo, an experienced and successful litigation Member in our LA office, is among those attorneys profiled. Ralph discusses his arrival in the U.S. with his brother from Cuba and how his parents arrived sometime after.

Mintz Member and former General Counsel of Partners HealthCare, is quoted throughout this feature article discussing when it is the right time for a hospital and/or health system to bring in outside counsel.

This feature article looks at the potential increased scrutiny hospitals may face from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in terms of anticompetitive behavior. Rob Kidwell, an antitrust Member with Mintz, is among the industry sources providing commentary.