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Eric B. Gordon is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Los Angeles office. As a member of the Firm's Health Department, Eric's practice focuses on fraud and abuse and compliance issues and health care transactions. Eric represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax exempt hospital systems, medical groups, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations.
Eric has assisted clients in the development of corporate compliance programs, OIG audits and investigations, and defense of Stark and kickback-based qui tam actions. He is co-chair of the Firm's Academic Medical Center Practice Group. He has organized and represents medical schools, teaching hospitals and faculty practice groups nationally with respect to fraud and abuse, self-referral, recruitment, tax exemption and other transactional, regulatory and organizational issues and serves as outside HIPAA counsel to medical schools and academic medical centers.
Eric belongs to the California State Bar and the American Health Lawyers Association, with membership in the Fraud and Abuse, Self-Referrals and False Claims Committee and the Teaching Hospitals & Academic Medical Centers Committee.
Eric is the author of the book, Faculty Practice Plans, published as part of the BNA Health Law & Business Series, co-author of A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules (AIS, 2005) and author of "Teaching and Research Hospitals" in Health Care Corporate Law: Facilities and Transactions. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of health law topics, and has spoken before the America Health Lawyers Association, AdvaMed, Health Care Compliance Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Medical Group Management Association.
Eric was recognized as one of Nightingale's Healthcare News' Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyers - 2005 (one of 12 nationally). He was also named to the Legal Media Group Guide to Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers 2005 and Chambers USA 2007.
Representative Experience
Joint representation of a large public Midwestern university and its affiliated teaching hospital and faculty practice plan in a reorganization of its affiliation and financial relationships.
Special Stark counsel in a qui tam investigation, motions and settlement for a publicly-traded hospital corporation.
Close to 20 years' representation of a private medical school in transactional, regulatory, government and compliance work.
Education:
University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1990
Brown University, M.D., 1986
Brown University, A.B., 1982 | 