Eric B. Gordon is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He is partner-in-charge of the California health practice and national co-chair of the Firm’s Academic Medical Center practice.
Eric focuses his practice 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, pharmaceutical companies and 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 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 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, 2007) and AHLA’s Annotated Redlined Stark Regulations (2008), 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 in 2005 as one of Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyers (one of 12 nationally) and is ranked in Chambers USA 2009. He was named to the Legal Media Group Guide to Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers. Eric is also listed in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America.
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
