Meland Budwick launches Miami health-law practice led by Will Rosenzweig

Miami law firm Meland Budwick announced a health-law practice October 13, led by partner Will Rosenzweig. The firm’s launch announcement says the practice will represent healthcare providers, medical groups and whistleblowers in investigations, litigation and compliance matters.

The move adds a named specialist practice to a firm already working in business disputes. For Miami healthcare operators, the announced services span both the response to government scrutiny and the commercial issues involved in running a medical business.

The firm’s practice description includes representation in inquiries involving the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units. It lists responses to subpoenas and civil investigative demands among its services.

The same page describes internal investigations and compliance audits, as well as representation for individuals with firsthand knowledge of alleged healthcare fraud. It also lists False Claims Act litigation and work involving the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law.

The commercial side covers ownership and partnership disputes, contracts and healthcare-related real estate. The firm says its lawyers handle medical-practice leases and medical-office acquisitions, sales and leasing. That puts operating matters and disputes alongside the new practice’s enforcement work.

Rosenzweig’s professional biography identifies him as a Miami-based commercial litigator and former assistant US attorney in the Southern District of Florida. It says he spent five years in that office, prosecuting fraud and financial-crime cases through trial and appeal.

The launch announcement adds that three of those years were spent on South Florida’s federal healthcare-fraud strike force. Before government service, his biography says, he worked on enforcement defense, internal investigations and complex disputes at national and international firms.

That background is relevant to the practice’s stated focus on government inquiries. It also makes the announcement a development within the firm’s existing partnership, rather than evidence that the launch itself brought a new lawyer to Miami. The firm’s profile already identifies Rosenzweig as a partner.

For healthcare businesses choosing outside counsel, the practical questions include who leads the work and whether the matter concerns an investigation, compliance review, commercial dispute or property transaction. The new practice identifies a range of those services under one heading, without establishing that every client will need each one.

The Justice Department’s overview of the False Claims Act helps explain that scope. It says the law addresses knowingly false claims to the government and allows private citizens to bring cases on the government’s behalf, known as qui tam suits. Successful private plaintiffs may receive part of a recovery. That structure explains why a health-law practice can describe both provider defense and whistleblower representation as service categories.

Meland Budwick was co-founded in 1993 and serves corporate, fiduciary and individual clients, according to its firm description. The health-law launch places healthcare investigations and operating matters within that broader business practice, giving providers and medical groups a named point of contact for the newly announced service.

The firm’s January 22 announcement records Rosenzweig’s arrival earlier this year. The October development adds a dedicated practice under his leadership, with a scope spanning enforcement, compliance and commercial work.