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We Defend Healthcare Providers Nationwide in Audits & Investigations.

Liles Parker PLLC is a health care regulatory firm representing health care providers and suppliers around the country in complex business transactions, administrative, civil and criminal litigation. Founded by a former Federal prosecutor and the former General Counsel of a Fortune 500 company, Liles Parker has established a reputation for providing outstanding legal services in a cost-effective fashion.

Our experienced team of legal professionals includes former Federal Prosecutors (many of whom held significant positions at the U.S. Department of Justice), former HHS legal counsel, and health care lawyers who have distinguished themselves by gaining recognition as Certified Billers, Certified Professional Coders, Certified Medical Coding Specialists, and Certified Medical Compliance Officers. We understand the business of health care.

For assistance in responding to a claims audit, a False Claims Act matter or a possible criminal violation, give us a call to schedule a complimentary consultation. We can be reached at: (202) 298-8750. Alternatively, you can schedule a time online at: Liles Parker Consultation.

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Your success is our success.

Liles Parker will always work aggressively to safeguard your financial interests and your personal liberty. We strive to provide quality, innovative representation in the most cost-effective manner possible. We firmly believe that our success is tied to your success. The firm has earned an enviable reputation in variety of practice areas, including corporate governance, business transactions, Medicare, Medicaid and private payor overpayment audits and appeals, and civil and criminal litigation.

Martindale-Hubbell has rated our firm “AV”. This honor is “limited to only the most distinguished law practices.” For those law firms that have achieved the AV rating, the ‘A’ signifies the highest level of legal ability, while the ‘V’ denotes ‘very high’ adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability, and diligence.

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Our Areas of Practice

Healthcare Law

Liles Parker attorneys have decades of experience practicing health care law.

False Claims Act

Our attorneys have decades of health law regulatory compliance experience.

White Collar Defense

Our team of attorneys include former federal prosecutors, experienced litigators and subject-matter experts.

Regulatory Compliance

Liles Parker attorneys have decades of health law regulatory compliance experience.

Business Transactions

Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance,General Corporate Counseling, Commercial Finance, Real Estate

Dental Law

Our attorneys have the vast litigation experience, regulatory knowledge to effectively address dental law issues

Our Featured Articles

Health Care Provider Risks When Ordering and Billing Chelation Therapy Services

(January 25, 2024): Although chelation therapy[1] has played an important role in mainstream medicine for many years,[2] it is still considered by many clinicians and regulators to fall within the category of “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” Proponents of chelation therapy in alternative medicine practices have supported its use in treating Alzheimer’s disease,[3] Parkinson’s disease, multiple […]

The OPM Debarment Process – Responding to an FEHBP Debarment or Suspension Action in 2024

Author: Ashley Morgan, Christin Thompson (December 20, 2023): Most health care providers and suppliers are familiar with the fact that as a participating provider in the Medicare and / or Medicaid programs, certain criminal convictions, adverse licensure actions, and various types of prohibited conduct may subject the provider to exclusion from participation in Federal health […]

Hospice Audit and Investigative Actions are Expected to Rise in 2024

(November 20, 2023): Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans cover hospice care and related services. To be eligible for hospice care,1 a patient must be certified as terminally ill and have a life expectancy of six months or less.  In recent years, the hospice industry has exponentially grown, and the number of Federal, State […]

AI in Medical Billing: A Benefit or a Compliance Risk?

Author: Christin Thompson, Annabella Denzel (October 10, 2023): In terms of revenues and expenses, health care providers and suppliers have repeatedly faced two unfortunate realities: (1) Reimbursement rates are shrinking, and (2) they are constantly being saddled with additional unfunded mandates (for example, HIPAA compliance, OSHA requirements, compliance obligations, etc. Coupled with ordinary practice expenses, […]

Texas HHSC-OIG is Ramping-Up its Investigations of Medicaid Pediatric Telemedicine Claims

(June 27, 2023): In the State of Texas, Medicaid plays a significant role in providing healthcare services to a large portion of the population. With more than 5.9 million[1] Texans (approximately 18.9% of the current population[2]) enrolled in Medicaid, it is an essential program for qualifying low-income citizens. In Texas, Medicaid costs taxpayers over $40 […]

HHS Departmental Appeals Board (DAB) Appeals

(June 15, 2023): The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is enormous, employing more than 80,000 individuals[1] who work in a dozen operating divisions and an even greater number of independent offices that report directly to the Office of the Secretary.[2] One of these independent offices is the HHS Departmental Appeals Board (DAB or […]

Medicare Advantage Plans are Aggressively Denying Claims – Administrative Appeals are Growing

(May 25, 2023): According to the latest data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), beneficiaries participating in Medicare Advantage[1] plans now surpass those enrolled in original Medicare plans. Slightly more than one-half[2] of the 59.82 million Medicare beneficiaries now eligible for coverage have signed up for one of the 5,261 Medicare […]

Medicare Exclusion Risks: Employing Excluded Individuals Can Result in Significant Administrative, Civil and / or Criminal Liabilities

(May 8, 2023): One of the most severe administrative sanctions available under the Social Security Act stems from the authority of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)[1] to “exclude” individuals and entities from participating in Federal health care programs.[2] While the Centers for Medicare and […]

Medicare Advantage SIU Audits and Investigations are More Prevalent Than Ever

Author: Ashley Morgan, Annabella Denzel (April 5, 2023): In the sphere of healthcare compliance, providers must manage audits coming from every possible authority whether it be from public agencies, a private payor, or other third-party authorities. CMS has announced that the FY 2022 fee-for-service improper payment rate was 7.46%.[1] While this is a slight increase […]

Inflation Reduction Act: What is the Impact on Healthcare Providers?

Author: Ashley Morgan, Annabella Denzel (March 30, 2023): On August 16, 2022,[1] President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, bringing with it plans for broad sweeping changes to tax rates, energy prices, and-most importantly for our purposes – healthcare costs. The general consensus from providers is that because the IRA’s healthcare related […]

Attorney Spotlight

Attorneys at Liles Parker are experienced in handling a variety of complex legal issues that affect health care providers. We work as a team to examine and analyze cases and formulate effective resolutions. Our attorneys have served in a variety of responsible legal positions.

Robert W. Liles, J.D., M.B.A., M.S.

Robert W. Liles has worked in regulatory compliance as a Federal prosecutor and as defense counsel, for more than 25 years. This has provided a unique perspective on the challenges faced by clients in highly regulated industries such as health care, banking and finance. Mr. Liles focuses his practice on fraud defense, internal audits, investigations, […]

David P. Parker

David Parker practices in the business transaction and healthcare areas. His business practice includes overseeing all legal aspects of private debt and equity financings and the purchase and sale of businesses. He represents buyers and sellers in the purchase or sale of business operations and entities. He has experience in originating, syndicating, closing, servicing, and […]

Jennifer Papapanagiotou, J.D., M.S.

Jennifer Papapanagiotou focuses her practice on transactional, corporate and regulatory matters for health care providers, including but not limited to: physicians and physician organizations, hospitals, laboratories, home health agencies, hospice providers, mental health professionals, and durable medical equipment companies. She also works extensively with health care management and billing companies. Her work focuses on the […]

Michael Cook

Michael Cook has more than 35 years of experience representing a wide variety of health care related clients in regulatory, compliance, coverage, reimbursement, policy, strategic planning, government relations, and business matters. This experience includes managing the health care practices in the Washington, DC offices of several large national law firms. Additionally, Michael began his career […]

Ismail (Ish) Laher

An Attorney Ismail Laher focuses on simplifying complex civil and regulatory matters for individuals and businesses alike. He also serves in the role of outside General Counsel on an as needed basis. Mr. Laher is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Georgetown Law. He was previously associated with the Jones Day law firm in […]

Richard Pecore

Mr. Pecore is an experienced Texas attorney and has worked on a variety of health care related matters and cases over the years. Mr. Pecore has extensive civil litigation experience and represents clients in “big-box” overpayment cases brought by Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) and Program Safeguard Contractors (PSCs). In recent […]

Ashley Morgan, J.D.

Ashley Morgan is a partner at Lliles Parker. She focuses her practice on regulatory health care compliance matters, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement issues. Ms. Morgan represents health care providers across the country in connection with a wide variety of health law issues including coverage disputes, documentation concerns, compliance, medical board complaints, and exclusion / […]

Andrew C. Lynch

Andy Lynch joins Liles Parker with more than 30 years experience as a transactional lawyer representing corporations and financial institutions in business and commercial matters. He has significant experience representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and in representing issuers and investors in capital formation transactions. Prior to joining Liles Parker, Andy was a […]

Lester W. Johnson, Jr., J.D., L.L.M.

Lester “Les” W. Johnson, Jr. is a Partner at Liles Parker PLLC and is the Supervising Attorney for the Firm’s Baton Rouge office. In addition, Les also serves as Co-Leader of the Firm’s Health Law Practice Group. Les helps clients navigate the myriad of regulatory, compliance and business issues facing today’s health care providers and practitioners. […]

Meaghan (McCormick) DeBenedetto

Meaghan McCormick is an Associate Attorney in Liles Parker’s Washington, DC office where she concentrates her practice in the area of health care regulatory compliance. Meaghan has experience with auditing claims, identifying deficiencies, and assisting clients in improving their documentation. She also assists providers with creating and implementing effective compliance plans. Meaghan has assisted Dentists, […]

Heidi Kocher, M.B.A., J.D.

Heidi Kocher has more than 20 years of experience in health care legal and compliance related issues. Her experience includes positions at a large hospital corporation, serving as a compliance officer for a sleep lab / Durable Medical Equipment (DME) company and a compliance director, chief privacy officer and interim chief compliance officer at a […]

Leonard Schneider

Mr. Schneider’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. He has also been selected to serve as City Attorney for a number of cities and municipalities. In this capacity, he has performed a wide range of legal services, ranging from contract drafting and administration to affirmative civil litigation on behalf of his municipal clients. Mr. Schneider […]

Regina G. Morano, J.D., CHC

Regina G. Morano, J.D., CHC is a healthcare regulatory attorney and compliance executive with more than two decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. Ms. Morano began her healthcare career as a Jesuit Volunteer and founding staff member of Baltimore’s Health Care for the Homeless Program, and has served in key legal […]

John Pierce

John Pierce in an experienced former Federal prosecutor and trial attorney whose practice focuses on sophisticated criminal defense and civil litigation. His background is rather unique. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Pierce served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California, the District of Columbia and in the Eastern District of […]

Charles E. Abney, J.D., M.D

Charles E. Abney, J.D., M.D. serves as a Counsel at our law firm. Dr. Abney’s background is rather unique. While continuing to manage a highly respected medical group, he entered law school and graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2005. Since graduating from law school, Dr. Abney has continued to practice […]

Christin Thompson

Christin Thompson is an Associate at Liles Parker. She focuses on healthcare compliance and reimbursement issues. Christin represents clients nationwide and practices out of the California office. She has experience in assessing client records for documentation compliance in private payor and CMS audit preparation as well as identifying and improving documentation deficiencies. Christin is also […]

Reviews And Testimonials

Google Reviews

5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Mr. Liles is an amazing and very knowledgeable attorney. I appreciated his expertise on how to proceed with a case. Even though I was not able to retain him he provided me with solid advice. I appreciated his time and I will highly recommended him.

Theresa Cotten
January, 2024
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Mr. Robert Liles was extremely responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful when we called him for a consult. Even though his firm didn’t specialize in our area of need, he seem to really care about us, listened to us, and offered other resources that could better assist us. We will definitely keep his firm in mind and will be recommending his services to others! Thanks Robert!

YI
November, 2023
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Having called Mr. Robert Liles he was unbelievably courteous and extremely helpful in the questions I was asking him. He did all of this in over 30 minutes of his time without even being retained by me. It was truly a breath of fresh air to meet someone in these troubling times who actually cared about the person on the other end of the phone without ever speaking to him before and without any monetary contract. I wish there were more people in this world like him and feel truly blessed to have met him. Truly God sent!!

Jude Barbera
August, 2023
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

The legal team at Liles Parker is outstanding. I encourage any provider experiencing issues with Medicare, Medicare contractors or government agencies to contact Liles Parker. The Liles Parker legal team has the experience, expertise and industry contacts to provide top notch legal representation. Their legal team is responsive, knowledgeable and can assist with guidance and representation for all legal matters. Well worth the investment.

Rich Huff
July, 2023
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Highly recommended. They are very personable compared to many firms out there. I used their services for a DEA issue and Robert and Megan delivered a very favorable outcome. They were always ready and willing to answer any questions and they communicated openly so that I was always aware of what was happening with my case.

Keith Jenkins
May, 2023
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

All of the attorneys in the firm are wonderful! I work in healthcare and they have excellent response times and have many years of experience in the field. Always very professional.

David Galli
1 Year Ago
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Jennifer at Liles Parker was incredible to work with through our legal difficulties regarding Medicare billing. She epitomized professionalism, consistently provided clear headed insights, and guided us with a calm and confident path forward throughout the process. I can confidently recommend this group, and specifically, Jennifer P. to anyone facing similar legal challenges.

Sam Sanders
1 Year Ago
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

I am a twenty-nine year Medicare service provider. Robert Liles has been my only representation for the various audits we have experienced. He and his crew are by far, hands down, no question the best representation I could imagine or expect.

Nathan Ingram
1 Year Ago
Positive: Professionalism, Responsiveness
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Our Practice had a DME revocation issue because of a virtual site visit miss communication and the team at Liles Parker provided exceptional service. They truly know what they are doing and helped resolve our issue in less than 2 weeks. The attorneys are very professional, knowledgeable and personable. I truly enjoyed working with Ashely and Christin, their response time and efforts truly helped our practice. I would highly recommend them and this law firm if you need help with CMS issues! Thank you so much ladies.

Andrea McGuireopa
1 Year Ago
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker
5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

I have been practicing medicine over 20 years. Thankfully, today I have a busy and successful private practice in surgery, with sub-specialty in wound care, which means I deal mostly with Medicare patients. In the Summer of 2019, I was a subject of a large scale CMS audit, with over 40 patient charts involved, with the CMS refusing to pay out those claims at the same time. It was very upsetting and disheartening to experience this kind of treatment from the payors, when I work hard daily and diligently for the oldest, sickest and most vulnerable of our community patients.

I was introduced to Ms. Lorraine Rosado esq, who calmly explained the situation involved and how to respond to this Medicare audit. Because of her expertise, we won our case in the first level of the Medicare appeals process. All of the claims were paid out eventually, which I confirmed with our biller.

Kazu Suzuki
1 Year Ago
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Testimonials

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I want to take this opportunity to thank you, thank Mr. Liles and Mr. Laher who has (been) exceptionally kind and gracious towards me in guiding and advising me. Your professionalism has been exceptional…….I will make sure that I spread the word around about your office and how wonderful all you folks are.

TP
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Robert Liles was introduced to me through American Medical Billing Associations (AMBA). He is extremely professional and excellent at answering any legal questions I may have. His response time is always quick. I am very happy to have him on my team as our attorney.

JF
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5 stars Rating - Lilesparker

Robert Liles wrote up a contract for my company. We will continue to use him for any further contracts in the future.

TP
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Robert Liles prepared my new business contracts and explained and educated my on everything from beginning to end. I look forward to further dealings with this firm in the future.

KS
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A Collection of our Articles Organized By Category

Health Care Provider Risks When Ordering and Billing Chelation Therapy Services

(January 25, 2024): Although chelation therapy[1] has played an important role in mainstream medicine for […]

Texas HHSC-OIG is Ramping-Up its Investigations of Medicaid Pediatric Telemedicine Claims

(June 27, 2023): In the State of Texas, Medicaid plays a significant role in providing […]

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Update

(June 20, 2023): In response to the recent public health crises, the Centers for Medicare […]

Hospice Audit and Investigative Actions are Expected to Rise in 2024

(November 20, 2023): Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans cover hospice care and related services. To […]

VA Acupuncture Audits of Non-VA, Community Providers are Increasing

(May 20, 2022): Acupuncture audits and investigations by federal, state and private payors have greatly expanded in […]

State and Federal Hospice Audit and Investigation Efforts are Expanding in 2022

(May 12, 2022): Hospice agencies are again the focus of both state and federal investigators and prosecutors […]

The OPM Debarment Process – Responding to an FEHBP Debarment or Suspension Action in 2024

Author: Ashley Morgan, Christin Thompson (December 20, 2023): Most health care providers and suppliers are […]

AI in Medical Billing: A Benefit or a Compliance Risk?

Author: Christin Thompson, Annabella Denzel (October 10, 2023): In terms of revenues and expenses, health […]

Medicare Advantage SIU Audits and Investigations are More Prevalent Than Ever

Author: Ashley Morgan, Annabella Denzel (April 5, 2023): In the sphere of healthcare compliance, providers […]

A Review of Dental Enforcement in 2021 and a Look at What Dentists Should Expect in 2022

(February 22, 2022): The treatment and business challenges presented by COVID-19 over the last two years have been […]

United Concordia Dental and its SIU are Actively Auditing Dentists Around the Country.

(September 15, 2020): There are approximately 1.4 million active duty service members in our country. These active duty […]

Overview of Dental Claims Audits and Investigations by Medicaid and Private Payors in 2019

(March 4, 2020): Many dentists and dental practices around the country are glad that 2019 is behind us.  […]

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