Why Is a Forensic Accountant in My OPMC Case?

You may have gotten word that the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) or Office of Professional Discipline (OPD) is looking into investigating you. This may mean that one of your former or current patients may have made a strong case against you. That is, in their medical misconduct complaint to the OPMC or OPD, they may have submitted an abundance of supplementary evidence supporting your guilt in the incident at hand. Such supplementary evidence may consist of testimony and more from their hired forensic accountant. Well, with that being said, please read on to discover why a forensic accountant may be participating and acting against you in an OPMC investigation and how one of the seasoned New York physician defense lawyers at Walker Medical Law can protect you from their legal tactics.

Why is there a forensic accountant participating in my OPMC investigation?

First things first, you must understand that your former or current patient may be pursuing a medical misconduct lawsuit with the New York State Civil Court at the same time as a complaint with the New York State OPMC or OPD. Therefore, they may have first acquired a forensic accountant for their civil case.

Here, this expert may have analyzed and calculated the total economic damages the plaintiff incurred from their injuries in the alleged misconduct incident. Such economic damages may consist of their current and future medical expenses, their current lost wages and future lost earning capacity, and more. Or, this expert may have investigated the potentially deceitful insurance claims and inconsistencies in your billed medical services, if the plaintiff’s claim has to do with your committing fraud.

Under any of these circumstances, the plaintiff may use the tangible findings collected by their forensic accountant to support their submitted OPMC or OPD complaint. With this, the OPMC or OPD may have enough reason to initiate a full-fledged investigation and subsequent hearing against you. Ultimately, it may be more difficult to defend yourself as innocent with this evidence backed by a professional such as a forensic accountant.

How might a forensic accountant affect my civil medical misconduct case?

Unfortunately, a forensic accountant may have more of a presence in your medical misconduct claim proceedings in front of a New York State Civil Court. This is because not only may they produce this credible financial evidence, but they may also testify on the plaintiff’s behalf in court.

Here, they may help the judge and jury better understand these complex financial implications and how they are relevant to the plaintiff’s case against you. In the end, they may drive the judge and jury to a decision to have you pay back major compensatory or statutory damages to the plaintiff. This may be in addition to the fines and other penalty types the OPMC or OPC may impose on you.

There is no need to remain hesitant when you have one of the competent New York physician defense lawyers on your side and supporting you. So please inquire with us at Walker Medical Law at your earliest possible opportunity.