Ross M. Wolfe
Member, Kang Haggerty LLC
Former SEC Office of Chief Counsel. Recovered in three whistleblower actions.
Ross M. Wolfe represents whistleblowers in False Claims Act actions, with recoveries in pharmaceutical kickback and home health upcoding matters. He worked in the Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Chief Counsel before entering private practice and advocates for a Pennsylvania state false claims act.
Ross M. Wolfe represents clients in complex commercial and consumer disputes, with a practice that includes whistleblower actions, healthcare disputes, securities, insurance and consumer fraud, and class actions. He has litigated in federal district and appellate courts across the country.
Before private practice he worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Office of Chief Counsel for its Division of Trading and Markets. That is an unusual background for a qui tam practitioner and a useful one: it means the regulatory side of a fraud case is familiar territory rather than something learned from the outside.
His whistleblower recoveries are specific. He obtained a multi-million dollar settlement in an action alleging a pharmaceutical company paid kickbacks to doctors to prescribe its opiate medication. He recovered several hundred thousand dollars in an action alleging a home health provider defrauded federal healthcare programs through upcoded billings, and a further recovery in an action alleging a home health provider paid kickbacks to induce referrals.
He is admitted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, before the Third and Ninth Circuits, and in four federal district courts including the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey.
Pennsylvania is one of the states without a general false claims act, which means a Pennsylvania Medicaid case recovers only the federal share of the loss. Ross has publicly advocated for the Commonwealth to adopt one, and presents continuing legal education on False Claims Act pre-trial strategy.
He graduated with honors from George Washington University Law School and holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a finance major from the Catholic University of America.
Where the practice concentrates
- Pharmaceutical and opioid kickback claims
- Home health upcoding and referral kickbacks
- Securities and regulatory dimensions of fraud cases
- Advocacy for a Pennsylvania state false claims act
Outside practice
He serves as General Counsel for the Philadelphia Republican City Committee and was a USA Boxing Official from 2018 to 2021.
Whistleblower matters
$2 million False Claims Act settlement with Recovery Centers of America
$9 million settlement in a non-intervened fentanyl qui tam case
Whistleblower suit against Harvard University over NIH grant administration
Representative results
- Obtained a multi-million dollar settlement in a whistleblower action alleging a pharmaceutical company paid kickbacks to doctors to prescribe its opiate medication
- Recovered several hundred thousand dollars in a whistleblower action alleging a home health provider defrauded federal healthcare programs through upcoded billings
- Recovered several hundred thousand dollars in a whistleblower action alleging kickbacks by a home health care provider to induce referrals
Advocacy and teaching
Advocates for the adoption of a Pennsylvania state False Claims Act; presents CLE on False Claims Act pre-trial strategy
Education
- J.D., George Washington University Law School, 2013
- B.S. Business Administration, Catholic University of America, 2010
Admitted to practice
- Pennsylvania, 2013
- New Jersey, 2014
- Washington, DC, 2018
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2017
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2020
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2014
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2019
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 2015
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2019
Professional memberships
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- The Federalist Society
- Republican National Lawyers Association, Chair, Philadelphia Chapter
Full firm biography: Ross M. Wolfe at Kang Haggerty LLC
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