Tony Maida is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s New York office. Tony has extensive experience in health care fraud and abuse and compliance issues, including the federal Anti-Kickback and Physician Self-Referral/Stark laws, false claims and overpayments, and government investigations. He works closely with our health and white collar teams on criminal, civil, and administrative investigations and counseling clients on corporate transactions and compliance programs.
Tony previously served as a senior official in the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked for nine years. As Deputy Chief of the Administrative and Civil Remedies Branch, Tony led a team of attorneys representing the agency on False Claims Act and Civil Monetary Penalty Law cases, including conducting investigations and negotiating settlements and Corporate Integrity Agreements in some of the largest settlements obtained by the United States. He participated in defending the OIG in numerous exclusion appeals, including appeals pursued by high-level corporate executives.
Tony had significant responsibility over OIG’s self-disclosure program as the principal author of the OIG’s current Self-Disclosure Protocol and the 2009 Open Letter as well as formulating the agency’s policies for resolving disclosure submissions. He also was the principal author of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the OIG’s civil monetary penalty authorities. Tony provided technical assistance to Congress on various fraud and abuse laws, including provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
In 2013, Tony was detailed to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he advised senior officials on policy issues, including the 60-day Overpayment Rule, the Physician Sunshine Rule, the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership, and provider moratoria and payment suspension authorities.
Tony received several OIG awards during his career, including the Bronze Medal for Outstanding Employee of the Year in 2011. He has lectured on health care fraud and abuse issues at Boston University School of Law and American University Washington College of Law.
Prior to his government service, Tony represented hospitals and physician practices on health care regulatory and corporate compliance issues.
During law school, Tony was the editor of the 2001 Symposium issue of the American Journal of Law and Medicine and published an article in that issue.
Tony is a member of the American Health Law Association, where he serves as a lead coordinator of the Fraud and Abuse Practice Group Education Committee.
Tony is admitted to practice in New York, Massachusetts and the Federal District of Massachusetts.
