The United States recently filed a False Claims Act Complaint in Intervention against Florida-based compounding pharmacy Patient Care America (“PCA”), two PCA employees, as well as the private equity (“PE”) firm that acquired PCA and helped manage the company.1 The scheme alleged by the government was a common one: the payment of kickbacks for referrals… Read more »
William Pietragallo, II, Founding Partner of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (“CLBB”). The CLBB is based at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, and serves as a resource for the understanding of the interaction… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht will be presenting at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 24th Annual Compliance Institute in Nashville, Tennessee on March 30, 2020. The title of Ms. Brecht’s presentation is, “Healthcare Private Equity, Moving Into the Government’s Crosshairs.” Private equity (PE), through mergers and acquisitions, has moved into the healthcare space in a very big… Read more »
A coordinated law enforcement effort among myriad federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey resulted in the arrests of 48 defendants. Included in those arrested were doctors and medical professionals who, allegedly, submitted over $160 million in fraudulent insurance claims, caused losses of over $800 million and distributed over 3.25… Read more »
Join Partner Douglas Rosenblum, on Thursday, November 14th at noon, for an informative webinar discussion of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This federal statute, enacted more than 40 years ago, has become more and more prevalent in federal investigations. It is critical for counsel representing any American company doing business abroad to understand the ramifications of… Read more »
Yesterday, the Third Circuit affirmed a doctor’s conviction for accepting bribes in exchange for referrals to New Jersey based lab Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services (BLS). U.S. v. Thomas V. Savino, No. 18-2223 (3d Cir. 2019). Doctor Thomas Savino allowed BLS to set up a blood drawing station in his solo medical practice in Staten Island, New… Read more »
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP is pleased to announce that Pamela Coyle Brecht, the Chair of the Firm’s Qui Tam Practice Group, has been selected by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a Recipient of the 2019 Best of the Bar Awards. The awards identify Philadelphia’s top lawyers across nine categories, including white-collar defense… Read more »
In the wake of several massive data breaches, consumer privacy (or lack thereof) has become a growing concern. For some, more surprising than the breaches was learning how much personal information companies collect from consumers—everything from Social Security numbers and email addresses to location data and demographics—and how much personal information is being sold or… Read more »
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), codified in 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et. seq., prohibits certain classes of persons and entities from paying foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, persons and entities may not corruptly use any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of any offer or payment… Read more »
Will the Trump administration’s changes in corruption enforcement policies decrease prosecutions of companies and individuals doing business in Latin America? Not likely. Despite the public perception that the Trump administration is relaxing its antibribery Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement efforts, in the last couple of years we have seen an increase in FCPA… Read more »