Employment Lawyers For Medical Professionals

Have You Experienced Any Of These Legal Challenges Facing Medical And Mental Health Professionals In The Workplace?

• • Discrimination due to age, race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy/parental status, national origin, or military status
  • Sexual harassment – threats, physical assault, offensive jokes, or intimidation
  • Retaliation for challenging or reporting discriminatory treatment in the workplace
  • Retaliation for reporting or seeking accommodations for an injury in the workplace
  • Retaliation for reporting concerns about patient care
  • Retaliation for reporting or resisting any kind of illegal conduct in the workplace
  • Being offered executive or professional severance

Our Minnesota-based lawyers for medical professionals understand the environment in which medical and mental health professionals work. Whether you are a C-Suite professional or in an entry-level role, Halunen Law can help you address these challenges. Our lawyers provide expert, personal legal guidance to help you achieve the justice you deserve. We work on a contingency basis, meaning that there are no up-front costs to you and that we only collect a fee if we are successful in resolving your claims.

Unlike other Minnesota employment law firms, Halunen Law also has attorneys who are experienced in combating fraud against the government—including fraud involving Medicaid and Medicare. If your employment challenge is based on your awareness of this kind of fraud, Halunen Law attorneys can help you both as a whistleblower and as an employee. Lawsuits under federal or state False Claims Acts (FCA) can provide significant financial rewards to whistleblowers in the medical or mental health industries who expose fraud against government agencies or programs. The FCA relies on individuals like you who have first-hand information to root out medical fraud. The False Claims Act also makes it illegal to retaliate against whistleblowers. The combined employment and FCA experience unique to Halunen Law enables us to provide unparalleled legal representation for individuals in the healthcare field.

Conduct in the healthcare industry that may be the basis of a False Claims Act claim includes:

• • Billing the Government for a higher level of services than those actually provided
  • Billing the Government for services not actually provided, or for services provided by employees not approved to provide the services
  • Billing the Government for services provided under a false NPI (National Provider Identifier)
  • Paying kickbacks to health providers or physicians to drive business
  • Providing physicians with remuneration in exchange for referrals
  • Violating the Stark Law (prohibits physicians from referring patients for certain services in which the physician has a financial interest)
  • Falsifying clinical data and research results
  • Medicaid / Medicare / TRICARE Billing Fraud
  • Medical device fraud
  • Pharmaceutical fraud

Case Results Involving Medical and Mental Health Professionals In Minnesota

• • • Our client, a board-certified radiologist and senior shareholder of a radiology company raised patient safety concerns to his company’s leadership. He was terminated after he warned the company board that he would report his concerns to their medical facility partner if the unsafe and unethical practices continued. A Hennepin County jury awarded our client $4.6 million in damages for wrongful termination under Minnesota’s whistleblower protection law. Read more about this case.
    • Our client worked in regulatory affairs at a medical device company and was terminated after she reported issues regarding the company’s failure to comply with FDA regulations. Through mediation, our client received a settlement in the high six figures.
• • • Our client was a Support Professional at an Assisted Living Facility. She injured her arm when assisting a resident. Our client requested a reasonable accommodation but was told that the company could not accommodate her. Her worker’s compensation claim was not approved. After appealing the claim and getting clearance from a doctor to return to work, the client was terminated. We were able to reach a satisfactory settlement for her, getting the compensation she deserved.
• • • Our client was a billing professional for a group of hospitals and became aware that certain bills were being miscoded. We were able to settle her case in the seven figures early in the litigation of her False Claims Act claim. As a whistleblower, she received a reward under the False Claims Act.
• • • Our client, a neuroscientist, was terminated for challenging clinical trial misconduct by an imaging company. Her claim of retaliation under the FCA was resolved in the six figures.