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Exploring Updates in Fraud Waste and Abuse Audits with Brad Howard, Esq. Brown & Fortunato
Fraud, waste, and abuse audits are becoming more common in the pharmacy industry, and pharmacies need to be prepared to protect themselves.
In this episode of The Bottom Line Pharmacy Podcast, Scotty Sykes sits down with Brad Howard, Esq. With Brown & Fortunato to discuss:
- Tips for protecting your pharmacy from these audits
- What these Fraud, Waste and Abuse Audits are
- Reasons for these increasing audits
- Navigating Copayment Waivers
- And more!
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More about our guest:
Bradley W. Howard is a health care attorney with extensive experience representing pharmacies, durable medical equipment providers, hospitals, and many other health care providers with compliance, enforcement, and litigation matters throughout the country. Brad moved to Brown & Fortunato more than twenty-six years ago from a large Denver firm where he prepared and tried numerous lawsuits and administrative hearings for manufacturers, health care providers, and large companies in a variety of industries.
Brad enjoys working with pharmacies and other health care providers on regulatory and contractual compliance matters, payer and PBM audits and appeals, governmental demands and requests, responses to subpoenas and demand letters, and business disputes including litigation. Brad routinely handles health care investigations by the Department of Justice, HHS OIG, various boards of pharmacy, State Attorneys General, the Department of Defense, and other regulators. Brad is also board certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. In summary, Brad serves as a creative and strategic legal problem solver and is regarded by many clients as their outside General Counsel.
Brad grew up in Texas and considers it home, but he works with clients throughout the country in person and on video conferences. Brad graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1991 and received his B.A. from Texas Tech University in 1988, graduating summa cum laude. Brad is admitted to practice law in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Iowa.
Brad and his wife, Nicole, have four children and four grandchildren. Brad enjoys running, fly-fishing and most of all spending time with his family.
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