Banee Pachuca to Teach Fraud and Abuse Course at the University of Houston Law Center

Banee Pachuca, Health Care and M&A partner at Winston & Strawn, will join the University of Houston Law Center as an adjunct professor beginning in Spring 2025 to teach a Fraud and Abuse course as a part of the university’s Health Law program. Amandeep S. Sidhu, Winston health care partner, will be a guest speaker during the course as well.

The course will explore the administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement of health care fraud and abuse laws and the resulting penalties imposed on health care providers for a variety of unlawful activities. In particular, the course examines the implications of federal and state Anti-Kickback laws, the federal anti-referral (Stark) law, federal and state false claims laws, federal civil monetary penalties and exclusion authorities, and various federal criminal statutes, as well as the strategies employed by the government to pursue health care violations and by defense attorneys who represent accused providers.

Learn more about the course here.