As chair of the Health Law Group, Sandy offers his experience to clients — typically large health care companies and delivery networks — who seek help with fraud and abuse problems and representation in federal or state investigations. Sandy's experience in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues and policies includes representation of clients before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and in various U.S. district courts and courts of appeals. He represents health care providers with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud investigations and related matters. He also represents professional and trade associations, negotiates with state and federal authorities, and provides counsel with respect to a broad range of legislative issues.

From 1975-1979, Sandy served as an attorney for the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services) where he had primary responsibility for developing policies and regulations to implement the Medicare and Medicaid Anti Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977.

A former president of the American Health Lawyers Association, Sandy chaired the organization's annual fraud and abuse seminar for over 10 years, and was named an AHLA Founding Fellow in 2005. Sandy also served for 10 years on the Baltimore County Board of Education, which is the 23rd largest public school district in the country.

Sandy is a frequent writer and lecturer on fraud and abuse and compliance matters. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he teaches a health care fraud and abuse seminar.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

Court of Appeals of Maryland

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits

United States Supreme Court

Tulane University School of Law, J.D., with honor, 1975

Tulane Law Review, Associate Editor

Washington University, A.B., 1972

Action for the Homeless

Member, 1995-1998

President, 1989-1992

American Bar Association

American Health Care Association

Member, Legal Subcommittee

American Health Lawyers Association

Founding Fellow, 2005

Board of Directors, 1986-1995

President, 1993-1994

Chair, Fraud & Abuse Program, 1992-2000

ASSOCIATED: The Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore

Regional Investment Committee

Baltimore County Board of Education

Member, 1993-2003

Special appointment to the inquiry panel investigating the financial practices in the Baltimore City Public School System, 2004

Baltimore Jewish Council

Board of Directors

Member, 1982-present

President, 1992-1994

Center for Poverty Solutions

Board of Directors, 1998-2000

The Chimes Foundation

Board of Directors

Kids Helping Hopkins

Board of Advisors

Maryland State Bar Association

University of Maryland School of Law

Adjunct Professor

Maryland Bar Foundation, Fellow

Listed in Expert Guides to the Leading Lawyers — Best of the Best USA 2007, healthcare category

Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers for Health Care, 2007, 2008

Leadership in Law Award, The Daily Record, 2005

Selected by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyers for 2004

Listed since 1991 in The Best Lawyers in America, Health Law category (Woodward/White, Inc.)

Frequent writer and lecturer on various health care fraud and abuse issues

Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

President of American Health Lawyers Association; service on the 24th largest school board in the country; 26 year marriage with two children