Overview
Beth Warren draws on 14 years at the U.S. Department of Justice to counsel clients facing complex government investigations, False Claims Act matters and health care enforcement issues. Having spent much of her career evaluating allegations of fraud from the government’s perspective, Beth brings a distinctive ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a matter, identify the issues most likely to drive the government’s decision-making and develop a strategy for addressing them.
Before entering private practice, Beth served as Civil Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, where she led the office’s Civil Division and served on its executive leadership team. She previously served as Senior Litigation Counsel, Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator, Health Care Fraud Coordinator, and e-Discovery Office Coordinator. In those roles, she supervised and advised attorneys, directed complex investigations, coordinated with federal and state enforcement agencies and worked extensively with the Department of Justice’s Civil Fraud Section and other U.S. Attorney’s Offices around the country.
Beth’s practice at DOJ focused heavily on the False Claims Act and health care fraud and abuse. She directed investigations from their earliest stages through resolution and litigation, including issuing and enforcing Civil Investigative Demands, developing complex factual and damages analyses, interviewing and deposing witnesses, working with medical and scientific experts, evaluating relator allegations, conducting presentations to companies and their counsel, and negotiating settlements.
Her health care enforcement experience spans virtually every sector of the industry, including clinical and genetic testing laboratories, hospitals, physician practices, hospice and home health providers, durable medical equipment companies, device manufacturers, compounding pharmacies, telemedicine companies, and independent marketing organizations. Many of her matters involved complex questions of medical necessity, coding and billing, physician compensation and referral relationships, laboratory marketing arrangements and alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law. She also handled significant civil fraud matters involving government contracts, immigration and visa programs and other federal programs.
Clients benefit not only from Beth’s knowledge of the law, but also from her understanding of how government lawyers analyze and build a case. She has worked closely with the FBI, HHS-OIG, DCIS, state Medicaid fraud units and numerous other federal and state agencies, and understands how enforcement priorities, agency dynamics, whistleblower allegations, parallel proceedings and the quality of a company’s response can affect the course of an investigation. That perspective allows her to help clients evaluate risk early, communicate effectively with the government and make strategic decisions about investigation, disclosure, resolution, and litigation.
Beth also held a leadership role in health care fraud enforcement beyond her own cases. After years of developing a statewide health care fraud working group, she helped establish the Palmetto Health Care Fraud Task Force, bringing together federal, state and local law enforcement to identify emerging fraud schemes, coordinate investigations and provide training. She was also selected to train federal agents and attorneys nationally on False Claims Act investigations and emerging fraud schemes, both at the National Advocacy Center and for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Beth is an adjunct professor in the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law’s Health Systems Law graduate program, where she created and teaches a course on health care billing and compliance fraud. She has served as Chair of the South Carolina Bar’s Health Law Section and is a frequent speaker on the False Claims Act, health care fraud, and government enforcement.
Beth earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law and her B.B.A., cum laude, from the University of Georgia. She also studied at the University of Edinburgh. She was on the editorial staff for the South Carolina Law Review and Chair of the Honor Society where she led the drafting and ratification process for the law school’s first Honor Code.
Beth began her legal career as a law clerk to Chief Justice Jean H. Toal of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Prior to law school, Beth worked for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals as a Professional Sales Representative.
Experience
- Health Care Fraud and Laboratory Enforcement: Handled False Claims Act litigation involving a network of pain management clinics, drug-testing laboratories and related entities that resulted in more than $140 million in judgments, followed by a $9 million consent judgment against the entities’ owner. The allegations involved physician referral arrangements, the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law and medically unnecessary testing and services.
- Genetic Testing Litigation: Led significant aspects of complex, multistate False Claims Act litigation involving cancer genetic testing, including drafting the government’s complaint, developing expert and scientific evidence, conducting discovery and preparing the matter for trial. The United States and participating states ultimately obtained approximately $114.5 million in judgments and settlements.
- Durable Medical Equipment: Helped obtain a settlement of more than $24 million involving alleged False Claims Act violations relating to respiratory-related medical equipment. The matter involved federal and state health care programs and resulted in a corporate integrity agreement.
- Voluntary Disclosure and Cooperation: Handled an investigation arising from a company’s self-disclosure regarding false performance reports submitted in connection with a state Medicaid call-center contract. The matter resulted in an approximately $11.3 million False Claims Act settlement, with the government recognizing the company’s disclosure, cooperation and remediation.
- Hospital and Provider Billing: Handled investigations involving hospital and physician billing practices, including matters concerning medical necessity, evaluation and management coding and other Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE billing issues.
- Government Program Fraud: Helped secure a $9.928 million False Claims Act settlement involving allegations that a technology services company underpaid visa fees by using B-1 visas rather than the more expensive H-1B visas required for certain workers.
- Laboratory Kickbacks: Led and coordinated investigations involving laboratory marketing and physician referral arrangements, including extensive use of Civil Investigative Demands, witness interviews, depositions and parallel coordination with DOJ’s Civil Fraud Section and criminal enforcement authorities.
Honors & Recognitions
- District of South Carolina nominee, J. Michael Bradford Memorial Award, National Association of Former United States Attorneys (2025)
- Exceptional Service Award, National Association of Former United States Attorneys (2023)
- Special Commendation for Litigation, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina (2022)
- United States Attorney’s Award (2020)
- United States Attorney’s Award (2015)
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Civic Activities
- Graduate, South Carolina Leadership Academy Class of 2018
- Former Instructor, South Carolina Leadership Academy
- Former Mentor, Inn of Court 3L
- Former 1L Student Mentor, USC School of Law
Professional Activities
- Chair, Health Law Section, South Carolina Bar
- Member, John Belton O’Neill American Inn of Court
- Graduate, South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy
- Instructor, South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy
- Former mentor to law students through the American Inn of Court and University of South Carolina School of Law
Speaking Engagements
- Current Health Care Enforcement Trends, presentation to in-house counsel representing regional hospitals and health care organizations, 2025.
- Updates to the False Claims Act, South Carolina Bar Convention, 2025.
- Qui Tam Litigation and the Role of the Relator, DOJ Civil Fraud Orientation for Federal Agents and Investigators, 2025 and 2023.
- Moderated a panel addressing the advantages and disadvantages of adoption of a South Carolina False Claims Act, South Carolina Bar Convention, 2024.
- Developed and led a two-day health care fraud training for federal, state and local enforcement partners through the National Advocacy Center, 2023.
- Planned and presented a three-hour Health Law Section program addressing current health care law and enforcement issues, South Carolina Bar Convention, 2023.
- Emerging Kickback Scheme Trends, HHS Office of Inspector General national counsel training, 2021.
- Statistical Sampling in Health Care Cases, Department of Justice National Advocacy Center, 2015.
- E-Discovery and Your Case, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit/Program Integrity Units Symposium, Department of Justice National Advocacy Center, 2014.
- Regular speaker and panelist on the False Claims Act, health care fraud, government investigations and enforcement trends.
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