Join us at our second quarter luncheon!
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Registration begins at 11:30am
Location: Ralph's on the Park
Address: 900 City Park Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119
CPE: 1 hour of CPE credit
Pricing: $45 for members, $49 for non-members, $45 for students
**Cancelations are not allowed after June 8, 2022**
Overview of Healthcare Fraud and Case Studies from the Louisiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
Erin McAlister
Supervisory Special Agent
Louisiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
Erin McAlister is a Supervisory Special Agent with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU). Erin has been a Special Agent for over fifteen years and has been a CFE since 2019. Erin is also an Accredited Healthcare Fraud Investigator (AHFI) and a Certified Professional Coder (CPC). In addition to supervising all of the MFCU analysts, Erin also handles the MFCU’s data mining projects. In her career as a special agent, Erin has worked a variety of healthcare fraud cases that were prosecuted on state and federal levels. Behavioral Health fraud has been a major focus of her cases, with Erin running the MFCU’s Behavioral Health Taskforce and recently securing a conviction against a behavioral health provider in an $3.5 million dollar fraud case.
Joseph Springer
Special Agent
Louisiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
Joseph Springer has been a Special Agent with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) since 2011. Joseph obtained his CFE in 2020 and is also an Accredited Healthcare Fraud Investigator (AHFI). In addition to investigating healthcare fraud, Joseph also works as one of the Unit’s digital forensic examiners and is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE). As a part of the Baton Rouge Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF), whose purpose is collaborate with state and federal partners to focus on the worst offenders in fraud in high intensity regions, Joseph has worked on cases involving laboratories, pharmacies, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) including a recent indictment of an FQHC for assigning false mental health diagnoses to young children to support false claims in a $1.8 million dollar fraud scheme.
