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 the partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office and head of the California Health Industry 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 is ranked in Tier 1 in California – Healthcare in Chambers USA 2010 (one of 12 statewide) as well as ranked in Tier 1 in the Chambers national rankings for Healthcare: Regulatory (one of 14 nationally). Eric was recognized in 2005 as a Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ Outstanding Fraud & Compliance Lawyer. He was named to the Legal Media Group Guide to Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers. Eric is listed in the 2010 and 2011 editions of Best Lawyers in America and Southern California Super Lawyers. He is also listed in the Euromoney Institutional Investor Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers.
Eric was the former Vice Chair of the Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association.
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
