March 16, 2015
Peter Budetti in Law360.com, 3/16/15.
The Obama administration’s former “anti-fraud czar” for Medicare and Medicaid has joined whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen LLP, adding insider savvy aimed at weeding out weak False Claims Act cases and fortifying promising ones.
[ Peter] Budetti, who will be based in D.C., said the firm’s reputation for winning set it apart as he decided to enter private practice and take on bogus billing from a new vantage point. “The track record of Phillips & Cohen is just so terrific in the amount of money that’s been returned to [the] government,” he said.