The Whistleblower Legal Center is an internet resource provided by the Law Office of Tracy L. Netzel. The Law Office of Tracy L. Netzel is dedicated to the representation of whistleblowers under the federal False Claims Act and other anti-fraud statutes. The firm also handles business and civil litigation matters on a case-by-case basis.
Tracy L. Netzel, the founder of the Law Office of Tracy L. Netzel, is a native of northern Wisconsin and a cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Tracy is admitted to practice law in both Wisconsin and Illinois, as well as numerous federal courts and also is admitted to the federal trial bar. After practicing law in Chicago for nearly seven years, Tracy relocated her practice to Wisconsin and now maintains her office in the Fox Valley, just thirty minutes from Green Bay.
Tracy represents pharmaceutical company sales representatives, doctors, nurses, compliance officers, billing coders and others in cases spanning the spectrum of fraud and abuse. Tracy has particular expertise in health care fraud and presently represents clients in cases involving:
- Pharmaceutical fraud;
- Anti-kickback and Stark Act violations;
- Off-label drug promotion;
- Substandard patient care;
- Unnecessary/worthless medical testing; and
- Fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing.
In connection with her qui tam practice, Tracy also represents whistleblowers who have been retaliated against by their employers for reporting or refusing to participate in fraudulent activities.
Tracy is a member of various bar associations and also Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) and speaks on a wide variety of False Claims Act topics including a seminar to Chicago-area physicians, entitled, “What
Physicians Need to Know About Fraud & Abuse Laws…But Are Afraid
To Ask.”
Tracy represented AARP and TAF as amici curiae in a successful appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court defending the constitutionality of the Illinois Whistleblower Act.
Read the brief and opinion
Tracy was also the first lawyer in Illinois to file a case under the Insurance Claims Fraud Prevention Act, 740 ILCS 92/1 et seq., a little-known law entitling whistleblowers to a reward for their efforts in exposing insurance fraud in the private sector. On April 26, 2005, the Illinois Attorney General intervened in the $234 million dollar fraud case.
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The Law
Office of Tracy L. Netzel is particularly interested in prosecuting False Claims Act cases where fraud negatively impacts patient safety and care or disproportionately impacts a poor or vulnerable patient population. The firm typically represents clients on a contingency basis.
"It is
not the critic who counts, not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers
of deed could have done better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face
is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again
... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat."
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