A nationally recognized leader in healthcare fraud and abuse and regulatory issues, Howard J. Young leads the Morgan Lewis healthcare practice and co-leads the firm’s healthcare industry initiative. Howard advises a range of healthcare clients on government investigations and audits, litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters. Healthcare organizations turn to Howard to address their most critical legal, compliance and strategic business issues and to assist with internal and government investigations, qui tam litigation, OIG inquiries, and self-disclosures. Howard regularly advises investors, including private equity firms, on transactions, affiliations, and joint ventures to create effective legal solutions.
Howard’s clients include a wide range of providers and suppliers, including hospice and palliative care, home health, long term care, specialty and retail pharmacies, hospitals and academic medical centers, behavioral health providers, physician practices, vision care providers, medical device manufacturers and suppliers, telehealth providers, healthcare vendors, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), health plans, and distributors. He also counsels private equity firms on their investments in a wide array of healthcare business transactions.
Howard represents healthcare clients that are the targeted by federal and state investigations and audits (many of them triggered by qui tam lawsuits) involving the False Claims Act (FCA), the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Civil Monetary Penalty Law, and the Stark Law, as well as quality of care, medical necessity, coding, and billing matters. He has successfully helped clients avoid Department of Justice (DOJ) intervention on many FCA qui tam investigations, and has successfully litigated and resolved dozens of FCA matters.
As a former senior managing lawyer with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), Howard has experience advising and litigating on OIG and state exclusion matters, and was successful as co-counsel on the only mandatory exclusion matter overturned in federal court. He also assist clients responding to program integrity actions of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contractors, such as recovery audit contractors and unified program integrity contractors (UPICs), to Center for Program Integrity billing revocation and Medicare payment suspension matters, as well as OIG audits and investigations. Howard advises a wide array of health care organizations on CARES Act grant issues, OIG audit readiness, and OIG response issues.
Howard frequently writes and presents on fraud and abuse and healthcare regulatory issues to major healthcare trade and professional associations as well as to clients’ executive teams, boards of directors, and sales and marketing personnel.
Named, Modern Healthcare’s “Largest Healthcare Firm” (2016–2020)
Recommended, Industry Focus - Healthcare - Health Insurers, Service Providers, The Legal 500 US (2016-2020)
Ranked, Healthcare: Regulatory & Litigation, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2018, 2019)
Band 1, Healthcare, District of Columbia, Chambers USA (2020)
Ranked, Healthcare, District of Columbia, Chambers USA (2018, 2019)
Ranked, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2006–2017)
Recognized, Washington DC Super Lawyers (2012–2018)
Recognized, Washingtonian magazine "Best Lawyers" (2013, 2014)
Life Sciences Star, Fraud and Abuse (2012–2016); Non-IP Litigation and Enforcement (2016–2020), LMG Life Sciences
Litigation Star and Local Litigation Star in White Collar Crime, Benchmark Litigation (2015–2018)
Outstanding Healthcare Fraud and Compliance Lawyer, Nightingale's (2010)
Recipient, 1998 and 2002 OIG Exceptional Achievement Awards; 2000 President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency Award; 2001 OIG Cooperative Achievement Award for Multi-Agency Enforcement Efforts
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Member, American Society of Pharmacy Law
Member, Health Law Section, American Bar Association
Member, Health Care Compliance Association
Member, Healthcare Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2017)
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