New York City Pharmaceutical Fraud Attorneys
NYC Pharmaceutical Fraud Defense Lawyers
As NYC white collar defense attorneys, we are often called upon to represent clients charged with pharmaceutical fraud and prescription fraud charges on state and federal levels. Our clients are health care providers such as pharmacists and physicians as well as individuals who unfortunately crossed the line of legality in their quest to obtain certain medications to which they had become addicted.
Pharmaceutical crimes vary from federal kickback violations, to Medicare and Medicaid fraudulent billing practices, to artificial drug price inflation to offenses often charged on state level such as prescription fraud.
Whatever the charges are, if you are the target of a criminal investigation in New York City related to pharmaceutical activity, you need an attorney experienced in defending pharmaceutical fraud cases. And if you are a medical professional, your attorney should also be experienced in representing licensed health care professionals because your professional license is in jeopardy.
NEW YORK CITY PRESCRIPTION FRAUD LAWYER
The New York City prescription fraud lawyers with Joseph Potashnik & Associates PLLC can assist you when you are investigated for or charged with prescription fraud under New York Penal Code Article 178 (Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions) and related offenses. Depending on the circumstances, prescription fraud (called a criminal diversion act) may result in criminal charges as light as a Misdemeanor or as serious as a Class C Felony.
Other prescription fraud charges include stealing a physician’s prescription pad to write a prescription, forging or altering a physician’s prescription, and other fraudulent acts.
NEW YORK CITY PHARMACEUTICAL CRIMES ATTORNEY
Our dynamic team of pharmaceutical crimes defense attorneys represents New York and New Jersey individual and corporate clients in matters involving:
- Anti-kickback laws violations;
- Medicaid and Medicare Fraud
- Insurance Fraud
We are also experienced in dealing with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations that routinely investigates violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Anti-Tampering Act, and other related federal statutes. Most common federal violations in the pharmaceutical industry are:
- Manufacture and sale of counterfeit or unapproved drugs
- Illegal diversion of drugs
- Prescription Drug Marketing Act violations
- Off-Label promotion Illegal Internet Drug Marketing
- Drug application fraud
- Clinical investigator fraud
- Product substitution crimes
- Product tampering
- Drug adulteration
- Illegal drug importation
- Illegal drug manufacture, sale or distribution
If you or your company are targets to a pharmaceutical criminal investigation in NYC, call our New York pharmaceutical crimes defense attorneys for a confidential consultation.
