Criminal Charges in Healthcare: When the Entity is Held Accountable for Individual Wrongdoing

Ms. Barrett is a seasoned healthcare lawyer with significant experience in analyzing federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, particularly related to fraud and abuse, health system operations, medical necessity and billing and coding. She also has significant experience in compliance matters, having served as SVP, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer for a large health system with an academic medical center. Ms. Barrett has served as General Counsel to a multi-facility health system and has held senior in-house positions in for-profit, non-profit, and public health systems. She has also spent many years in private practice providing advice and guidance to a wide variety of healthcare providers including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians, home health agencies, hospice providers, DME providers, labs and nursing homes. Ms. Barrett is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, as well as at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Wilmington. She holds leadership positions in the ABA's Health Law Section, as Vice Chair of eHealth, Privacy & Security, as well as Vice Chair of Ethics and Professionalism. Ms. Barrett frequently speaks and writes on a wide array of health law and compliance topics.

Mr. Porter focuses on white collar criminal defense, federal investigations brought under the False Claims Act, and litigation against the government and whistleblowers, with an emphasis on matters within the healthcare industry. As a former federal prosecutor with the DOJ, he was a key member of multiple international healthcare fraud takedowns and prosecuted a series of high-profile financial crime cases. Mr. Porter also handled major civil investigations and litigation against companies and individuals under the False Claims Act, resulting in record-breaking settlements and judgments. He now uses that experience to guide clients through federal investigations of all kinds, to litigate cases against and involving the government, and to run effective and right-sized internal investigations for corporations. Many of Mr. Porter’s clients are in the healthcare industry, including health systems, physician groups, and other healthcare companies, along with medical professionals and executives. He serves as a vice chair of the American Health Law Association’s Fraud and Abuse Practice Group.

Mr. Ordonez is the Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer at the Jackson Health System in Miami, the public, academic medical system and provider of need for the residents of Miami-Dade County Florida. Prior to assuming the role of CCO, he held a number of roles within the Jackson Office of Compliance and Ethics and within the Jackson Office of Clinical Trials.