Howard J. Young

Partner

Howard J. Young is a partner in Morgan Lewis's FDA and Healthcare Practice. Mr. Young has more than 17 years of health law experience and is nationally recognized as a leader in fraud and abuse matters. He advises a broad range of healthcare organizations—including the hospital, medical device, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, hospice, physician, pharmacy, vision care, GPO, long-term care, home health, and dialysis sectors—on fraud and abuse, regulatory, and compliance program matters, and regularly provides counsel on government fraud investigations and self-disclosures involving False Claims Act, antikickback, Stark Law, quality of care, coding, and billing matters. Mr. Young also counsels clients on Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) exclusion investigations and litigation matters, as well as in connection with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contractor and OIG audits. Additionally, he works with a wide variety of healthcare businesses to develop compliant business solutions and provides regular counsel on transactions and joint ventures.

From 1997 to 2002, he served as a senior attorney and deputy branch chief with the OIG coordinating with the U.S. Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and CMS on criminal and civil healthcare fraud matters. Mr. Young was involved in the negotiation and monitoring of hundreds of corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) and supervised the staff of attorneys and analysts who monitored CIA compliance. He also played a key role in many of the federal government's major healthcare enforcement and compliance initiatives at the time, including the largest corporate health fraud investigation to date.

Mr. Young frequently writes and presents to client personnel and major healthcare trade and professional associations on fraud and abuse and healthcare regulatory issues.

Mr. Young received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1993, where he worked with Duke University Medical Center's law department and served as an editor for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Tufts University in 1989.

Mr. Young is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.