Pamela Coyle Brecht

PAMELA COYLE BRECHT is a Partner at Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP. Ms. Brecht serves as Chair of the firm’s national Qui Tam/False Claims Act Practice Group. She is also experienced in white-collar criminal litigation, employment law, internal investigations, and complex health care litigation.

She has litigated many of the most complex False Claims Act cases filed in the United States. Her cases have included alleged fraud by a large multi-state Medicaid managed care contractor, FCA violations by three of the largest hospital corporations in the country, and dissecting complex financial relationships among healthcare providers including Stark and Anti-Kickback issues. She has also litigated cases involving hospital fraud, emergency room fraud, medical device allegations, Medicare Part C and Part D fraud, government contractor fraud, laboratory fraud, as well as all types of pharmaceutical fraud.

Ms. Brecht is a 1988, cum laude, graduate of Villanova University, where she was a competitive Rower on The Women’s Crew Team. She is a 1991 graduate of Temple University School of Law where she served on the Temple Law Review, was on the Dean’s List, and received honors for Distinguished Class Performance. LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® recognizes Ms. Brecht as an AV® Preeminent™ rated attorney, the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer in both legal ability and ethical standards.

Ms. Brecht is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Care Compliance Association, the Federal Bar Association Qui Tam Section, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Federal Criminal Law Committee for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Brehon Law Society, and the Justinian Law Society. She also serves on the Executive Board for the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section.

Ms. Brecht frequently speaks, writes, and lectures nationally on False Claims Act and health care fraud issues. She served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Minnesota, where she taught a course in health care fraud.

Ms. Brecht is an active member of her local church as well as parent organizations which support the United States Naval Academy and the United States Military Academy, from which two of her sons graduated. She is also a loyal supporter of Temple Men’s Crew.