Mintz Levin Attorney Ellyn L. Sternfield on Faculty of National Institute on Health Care Fraud
3/22/2011
Washington, DC – Ellyn L. Sternfield, Of Counsel in the Health Law Practice of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., will be a faculty member and moderator at the 21st Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud.
The annual meeting, which is presented by the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Health Law Section, and Center for Continuing Legal Education, and the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units in cooperation with the ABA Young Lawyers Division and the Health Law Section of the Florida Bar Association, will be held May 11-13 in Miami Beach, Florida.
The National Institute on Health Care Fraud provides the opportunity for health care attorneys, regulators, prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, and qui tam relators’ counsel to discuss current legal and ethical issues that arise in the health care fraud practice.
Ms. Sternfield will be the moderator of a panel discussion that will examine the key considerations, strategies and timing involved in the motion practice and procedural issues when it becomes necessary to litigate a health care False Claims Act case. She is also leading a workshop on state enforcement and Medicaid fraud.
Mr. Sternfield has an extensive background in the field of government health care regulation, with nearly 30 years of legal experience. Prior to joining Mintz Levin, she served as the director of the Oregon Department of Justice's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. While there, she supervised investigations and prosecutions of criminal and civil health care billing fraud and patient neglect cases. Ms. Sternfield also handled a wide variety of complex health care related cases and fraud schemes including qui tam False Claims actions. She previously served as senior assistant attorney general for the Oregon Department of Justice, where she focused on health care billing fraud and elder/dependent abuse cases, and developed a law enforcement training program focused on elder and dependant abuse. In addition to her service in the Oregon Department of Justice, she also served as the chief of the Consumer Rights Division of the Office of the Utah Attorney General.
For more information about the Institute on Health Care Fraud visit the ABA website.
