Gabriel L. Imperato

Mr. Imperato is the Managing Partner of Broad and Cassel’s Fort Lauderdale office and head of the Firm’s White Collar/Health Care Criminal and Civil Fraud Practice. He has practiced health care law in both the public and private sectors for more than twenty years and is Board Certified as a specialist in health law by the Florida Bar. He is also Certified in Healthcare Compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association. Mr. Imperato’s personal area of practice involves compliance with the health care fraud and abuse laws and the representation of individuals and organizations accused of criminal and civil health care fraud. Prior to joining Broad and Cassel, Mr. Imperato was the Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he advised and represented various agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Health Care Financing Administration (Medicare and Medicaid), the Public Health Service, the Social Security Administration and the Office of the Inspector General. Mr. Imperato has extensive criminal and civil trial and appellate experience in administrative, state and federal courts and has personally handled leading national cases concerning criminal and civil health care fraud and abuse and health care law and policy. He has also handled numerous matters involving the formation of integrated delivery systems and managed care organizations. He is considered a national expert on health care regulatory matters, including reimbursement and antitrust matters in the health care field. He is a frequent lecturer and has published numerous articles on such issues as medical staff proceedings, antitrust in the health care field, confidentiality and privacy of health information under state and Federal law, handling a health care fraud investigation and administrative and judicial procedural rights and the fraud and abuse laws under Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance programs. He is a member of the Illinois, Florida and District of Columbia Bars, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Law Section of the Florida Bar, The American Bar Association Antitrust Health Care Committee, White Collar Crime Committee and the Subcommittee on Health Care Fraud where he is Chairman of the Planning Committee of the American Bar Association Annual Health Care Fraud Institute. Mr. Imperato was a long time member of the now dissolved American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, where he was Chairman of the Reimbursement and Payment Committee and the Health Care Reform Task Force.