Qui Tam Law Firm Exclusively Protecting Healthcare Fraud Whistleblowers

Ken has served as lead counsel in dozens of successful healthcare fraud qui tam cases over the last two decades. The cases have generated several billion dollars in civil and criminal recoveries to the United States and state governments. As a recognized authority on healthcare fraud qui tam law, he has for years championed whistleblowers and their causes, representing heroes in cases filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.

Marcella Auerbach is the Managing Partner at Nolan Auerbach & White. She is a former federal prosecutor who spent more than twenty-five years at the United States Department of Justice. Ms. Auerbach has extensive experience prosecuting corporate providers for healthcare fraud, Anti-kickback and Stark Law violations, FDA violations, and Medicare fraud. She has won multi-million dollar recoveries under the False Claims Act and has successfully represented employees in whistleblower protection and other whistleblower-related actions against their employers.

Joseph E. B. “Jeb” White is one of the country’s leading qui tam advocates, having represented whistleblowers before the United States Congress and in qui tam actions across the country, from fraudulent hospital systems to dishonest pharmaceutical companies. As a tireless advocate of whistleblower rights, he has testified in front of the United States Congress and nearly a dozen state legislative bodies. As a trusted authority of the law, Mr. White has penned amicus curiae briefs in five United States Supreme Court cases, examining the federal False Claims Act; and has been a constant source for Department of Justice and other officials in need of qui tam expertise.

Matthew B. Pavone is a former federal prosecutor who served for over ten years in the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Southern and Northern Districts of California.  Like Ms. Auerbach, he was at one time the First Assistant United States Attorney in his federal district (San Francisco), overseeing False Claims Act litigation by the federal government in that jurisdiction.  While with the government, Mr. Pavone lectured at the Department of Justice Advocacy Institute on trial tactics.  He is a recipient of the Department of Justice’s “Exceptional Service Award” for his efforts heading the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for the Northwestern United States.

Double Board-Certified physician executive with 17-year clinical career (Internal Medicine/Nephrology/Transplantation), followed by 25-year background in Health Care Public Policy. Extensive programmatic experience in Traditional Medicare, and Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial managed care.  Special interest in Medicare, Medicaid, pharmaceutical, & ESRD  Fraud & Abuse. Managed Medicare Risk Adjustment Methodologies; Medical Director, A/B Medicare Administrative Contractor, Jurisdiction N; Medical Director for Administrative Law Judge Hearings through CMS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA).