On the Provider's Side

Founding partner Anthony Mahajan served nearly nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey, leading investigations and prosecutions of healthcare-related crimes. He later became Chief Compliance Officer and Executive Leadership Team member at UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Optum and OptumRx, overseeing operations at $300 billion in annual revenue. He subsequently served as Chief Counsel and Vice President at McKesson, directing controlled substance monitoring across the nation's largest pharmaceutical distributor. Health Law Alliance was founded on the premise that the defense of healthcare operators benefits from counsel who has spent significant time on the other side of the table - building cases for the government, designing compliance programs at the largest insurers, and managing controlled substance compliance at the largest distributors.

The HLA bench includes Anthony Mahajan (founding partner, former AUSA + UnitedHealth CCO + McKesson Chief Counsel), Diana Yastrovskaya (healthcare regulatory litigator, Cardozo Law magna cum laude, Russian-language practice), Damon McDougal (state prosecutor and trial defense attorney with four consecutive jury acquittals in Essex County), Timothy Franzen (former General Counsel of a publicly traded corporation, healthcare M&A and corporate counsel), Dr. Martha Rumore, Esq. (pharmacist-attorney and registered patent attorney with 200+ FDA/DEA/pharmacy law publications, teaches FDC Law at Hofstra Law), Alison Goldman (white-collar defense, Cardozo Law Review Notes Editor and EDNY judicial extern), and Nancy Coffey (Federal Law Enforcement Partner, former DEA Diversion Program Manager for New Jersey and the New England Division, 32 years federal law enforcement). Read each profile on the team page.

Health Law Alliance defends pharmacies, healthcare providers, and corporate operators across PBM audit defense (OptumRx, CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, Humana, Prime), network termination defense, healthcare fraud and False Claims Act matters, criminal healthcare fraud prosecutions, DEA controlled substance matters, FDA compounding defense (503A pharmacies and 503B outsourcing facilities), Medicare and Medicaid audit defense (UPIC, RAC, MAC contractor matters), state board of pharmacy proceedings, and professional license defense. The firm has handled matters in all 50 states and maintains its principal office in New Jersey.

The principal office is in Short Hills, New Jersey. The firm answers 24/7 because audit notices, FDA Form 483 observations, OCR Letters of Inquiry, and federal investigation notices do not arrive on a business-hours schedule. The first conversation is free and protected by attorney-client privilege from first contact.