Navigating FCA Litigation: The role of statistical sampling in healthcare cases

Stefan Boedeker | StoneTurn Group, LLP

Stefan Boedeker, a Partner with StoneTurn, has more than three decades of experience in providing economics and damages expertise in prominent litigation cases, specializing in statistical consulting.

As a litigation and management consultant, Stefan focuses on the application of economic, statistical, and financial models to areas such as solutions to business issues, economic impact studies, and complex litigation cases.

Over the course of his 30-year career, Stefan has provided economic, financial, and statistical consulting and expert services to clients across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, real estate, insurance, and financial services, as well as federal, state, and local governments. He has issued hundreds of expert reports and given deposition and trial testimony in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and regulatory hearings over 140 times.

Stefan has extensive experience in employment litigation, leveraging deep expertise in applying economic and statistical theories and methodologies to employment-related matters such as discrimination, wrongful termination, and wage and hour cases. His work in such cases has included designing and conducting surveys, time and motion studies, and observational studies; statistically analyzing the results of such surveys and studies (his own and other experts’ studies); applying statistical sampling methodologies to extrapolate results from a subset to a universe of individuals; developing statistical models and tests to answer liability questions; applying economic theory to develop damages scenarios; and analyzing large employment related databases.

Michael Clark | Womble Bond Dickinson

Michael Clark is an accomplished litigator with years of experience in the federal government and subsequently in private practice. Before private practice, Michael had a distinguished government career, beginning as an Assistant District Attorney in Galveston County, Texas. He then served as an Assistant U.S.

Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, where he was selected to be a chief of its Financial Fraud Division and then was elevated to be the chief of its Criminal Division.

Michael has served as lead counsel in over 100 jury trials and handled dozens of appeals. Among other matters, he represents clients in complex litigation, including civil False Claims Act cases and investigations, advises clients on regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters, handles arbitration matters, and represents clients in internal investigations and trials.

I. Understanding Statistical Sampling | 2:00pm – 2:20pm

II. Understanding FCA cases | 2:20pm – 2:40pm

III. How do Courts view the use of statistical sampling | 2:40pm – 3:00pm

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

IV. Best practices of statistical sampling in FCA cases | 3:10pm – 3:30pm

V. Statistics gone wrong | 3:30pm – 3:50pm

VI. Outlook, trends, and future development of FCA cases | 3:50pm – 4:10pm