Who Our Indiana Healthcare Fraud Defense Attorneys Represent

Practices and Organizations We Represent

• Physician Group Practices and Multi-Specialty Clinics
• Home Health and Hospice Organizations
• Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Freestanding Diagnostic Facilities
• Behavioral Health and Substance Use Treatment Providers
• Telemedicine Platforms and Digital Health Companies
• Durable Medical Equipment and Prosthetics Suppliers
• Independent Pharmacies and Compounding Operations
• Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic Operators
• Dental and Oral Surgery Group Practices
• Non-Physician Healthcare Investors and Management Companies
• Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations and Community Health Centers

Legal Matters We Handle for Our Clients

• False Claims Act Defense and Federal Investigation Response
• Medicaid Audit and MFCU Investigation Management
• Physician Non-Compete Disputes and Employment Agreement Review
• MSO Structuring and Non-Physician Ownership Compliance
• Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor Analysis and Referral Arrangement Review
• Stark Law Compensation Review and Restructuring
• Healthcare Business Formation and Ownership Documentation
• Medical License Defense Before State Licensing Boards
• Telemedicine Compliance and Interstate Licensure Compact Filing
• Practice Acquisitions and Healthcare Transaction Due Diligence
• Medicaid Billing Obligations and Medical Waste Compliance
• False Claims Act Exposure Assessment and Early Intervention

Our Indiana Healthcare Defense Attorneys Navigate Federal and State Enforcement

The U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana actively pursue False Claims Act matters involving home health billing, opioid prescribing patterns and diagnostic testing fraud. Most federal investigations start not with a government-initiated review but with a whistleblower filing. The inquiry runs for months before the provider receives any notice.

When that notice arrives, whether a subpoena, a Civil Investigative Demand, or a records request, the government already has your billing decisions, employment arrangements and referral structures in front of them. An Indiana healthcare fraud defense lawyer who already knows your practice’s structure and billing patterns responds to that situation from a very different position than one meeting you for the first time after a letter arrives.

How Our Medicaid Licensing Attorney Handles Fraud Control Unit Investigations

The Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigates billing fraud and provider misconduct through the state Medicaid program and operates independently from federal agencies. It pursues criminal or civil action and frequently opens both tracks simultaneously in matters involving significant billing irregularities or referral arrangement concerns. When federal and state investigations run at the same time, each track can affect the other. Providers managing both need counsel who understands how the two systems interact and can coordinate the response across both.

What to Do When You Receive an Audit Letter

This is the most common entry point into a healthcare fraud matter and the most consequential moment in terms of what happens next. If your practice has received an audit letter from Medicare or Medicaid, a records request from the MFCU, a Civil Investigative Demand, or any contact from a government investigator, take these steps immediately.

Do not respond to the request without legal counsel in place. Providers who voluntarily submit records, send written responses, or sit for interviews without an attorney present routinely create new problems for themselves while trying to cooperate in good faith. Contact a healthcare attorney in Indiana before anything leaves your office.

State-Level Regulations That Affect How Practices Operate

Most facility types, including ambulatory surgery centers and freestanding diagnostic facilities, operate without a Certificate of Need requirement here. That lowers the barrier to entry but brings closer scrutiny to independent operators, particularly around billing. DEA oversight of controlled substance prescribing has also increased in recent years, creating real licensing exposure for primary care and pain management providers. Our licensing defense team handles board matters that develop out of these situations regularly.

Medicaid billing obligations and medical waste compliance carry distinct documentation requirements that vary by facility type and are worth reviewing before a state inspection or audit. For practices with non-physician ownership involved, understanding who can legally own a medical practice in this state is a foundational question that shapes how the entire business gets structured. The state participates in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which affects how telemedicine providers manage cross-state licensing obligations. Physician non-compete agreements are enforceable under the right conditions and employment contracts that look straightforward often contain provisions that create problems when a provider exits.

How Healthcare Attorney Helps You Build the Right Legal Foundation

Launching a healthcare business in Indiana requires you to clear regulatory hurdles that go well beyond standard business formation. You need entity selection, ownership structuring and licensing in place before operations begin, because the structural gaps that get providers into trouble almost always appear at the formation stage, not later.

Providers looking at starting a home health agency or opening a med spa in Indiana must navigate distinct regulatory steps for each practice type. Those steps are far easier and less costly to address before the doors open than after a compliance finding surfaces. When non-physician ownership is part of the structure, the corporate practice of medicine doctrine determines how you build the entity, whether you need an MSO and what compliance obligations your business carries from day one. Providers building a telehealth platform must address cross-state licensing, prescribing protocols and patient agreement requirements as part of the initial setup. Getting these decisions right at formation costs far less than correcting them under regulatory pressure.

Why Dike Law Group Is the Right Indiana Healthcare Fraud Defense Attorney for Your Practice

If you are facing a healthcare fraud investigation in Indiana, you need an attorney who already understands your industry, not one who learns it during your case. Dike Law Group practices exclusively in healthcare law and every matter we handle is grounded in how healthcare businesses actually operate.

A healthcare fraud conviction can mean prison, restitution, Medicare and Medicaid exclusion and loss of your license. The providers who protect themselves get the right legal team involved early, before options narrow.

Why Indiana providers choose Dike Law Group:

• Exclusively healthcare law, no generalist advice
• Two Indiana-licensed attorneys serving Indiana clients directly
• Recognized in the Chambers USA Texas Spotlight Guide 2026
• Founded by Doris Dike, who managed compliance inside healthcare organizations before launching this firm
• Direct attorney access on every matter, no handoffs to junior staff

When your Indiana healthcare fraud defense attorney already knows your compliance history and billing documentation, they build your defense from your practice’s own records. We know what to look for because we have spent our careers inside these systems

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