Health
 
 
 
Larry Russell handles health care law at Ober|Kaler.  

    

Laurence B. Russell
Principal
  lbrussell@ober.com
410-347-7384
443-263-7584 fax
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  Experience  

Larry has extensive experience over the last twenty-five years in health law, particularly Medicare/Medicaid payment and compliance issues involving hospitals, physicians, pharmacies and other providers; fraud and abuse counseling and defense relating to the False Claims Act as well as the Stark and anti-kickback statutes; government investigations relating to health care billing and coding issues; regulatory compliance advice for hospitals, nursing facilities, pharmacies and other health facilities and professionals; and hospital ratesetting under the Maryland Medicare waiver. Larry regularly advises clients regarding the regulatory aspects of health care acquisitions. He has also represented individual and institutional clients before numerous administrative agencies and boards in cases involving payment disputes, licensing issues, and a wide variety of other regulatory matters.

 
 
    Admitted

Court of Appeals of Maryland

United States Bankruptcy Court

United States Claims Court

United States District Court for the District of Maryland

 
 
  Education

University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1978

Columbia University, B.A., 1971

 
 
   Professional & Community

American Bar Association

Health Law Section

American Health Lawyers Association

Maryland State Bar Association

Health Law Section

 
 
   Honoraries

Selected by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the "Outstanding Physician Practice Lawyers" for 2007

 
 
   Professional Background

Assistant Attorney General in Maryland

Chief counsel to the Maryland Medicaid Program
Chief counsel to the Health Services Cost Review Commission

Legal advisor, Governor's Commission on Health Care Policy and Financing