Ilene J. Nathan
HCM Principal Ilene J. Nathan is an attorney with over forty years in government service. She spent twenty years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore City, prosecuting misdemeanor and felony cases. She later served as Deputy Director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the District of Columbia’s Inspector General’s Office. She returned to Maryland to work in state government in the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, including serving as Executive Assistant to the Secretary. After joining the Attorney General’s Office, Ilene served as Maryland’s first People’s Insurance Counsel and later oversaw the Attorney General’s insurance fraud prosecution efforts and also served as Director of Maryland’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. As Director of the Medicaid Fraud Unit, she oversaw the investigations and prosecutions of allegations of improprieties by Medicaid providers. She and members of the Unit worked closely with the Inspector General’s Office of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure that Medicaid providers were rendering healthcare services in compliance with federal and state requirements. In 2010 Ilene led the Attorney General’s efforts to get passage of the Maryland Healthcare False Claims Act. The Act has led to the recovery of many state dollars fraudulently gained by healthcare providers. Ilene is a member of the Maryland Bar, a member of the DC Bar (inactive) and a member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In her spare time, she is an avid gardener and even more avid Orioles fan.
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