Arianne N. Callender

Of Counsel

Arianne N. Callender is of counsel in Morgan Lewis's FDA and Healthcare Practice. Ms. Callender represents companies and individuals in health industry government enforcement and compliance matters. She previously served as a Senior Counsel in the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Justice Special Trial Attorney, and Deputy Oversight Counsel to the House Committee on Homeland Security. Ms. Callender is a recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Group Award for Service to America, Office of Inspector General Achievement Awards, and is a co-author of the joint OIG-Association of Health Lawyers of America publication, Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Callender served as Deputy Oversight Counsel to the House Committee on Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. from 2009 to 2011. In this position, she developed strategy for investigations and hearings on transportation security, cybersecurity, emerging threats, emergency management, and border security issues.

From 2005 to 2009, as senior counsel to the OIG in the Administrative and Civil Remedies Branch, Ms. Callender led enforcement actions and negotiated global settlements and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) in federal and state Medicaid False Claims Act investigations related to quality of care and false billings. In particular, she handled matters involving the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, Quality Improvement Organization substandard care sanctions, Voluntary Self Disclosures, and Exclusions. Her cases have been profiled on CNBC's American Greed and in the Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Orlando Business Journal, and the South Florida Business Journal. Ms. Callender's work as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in a $140 million Miami durable medical equipment fraud investigation known as "Operation Whack-a-Mole" was part of an initiative that led to 38 arrests and was profiled on CBS News. During her tenure, she served as the Chair of the OIG Affirmative Litigation Team and also monitored companies under CIAs, including a nationwide hospital chain with extensive CIA requirements, including the first-ever board of director level CIA obligations.

Ms. Callender served as a federal prosecutor on 16 criminal healthcare fraud conspiracy,criminal false claims, kickback, and money laundering cases for the South Florida Medicare Fraud Strike Force, and represented the United States in a Medicare kickback conspiracy trial, obtaining a guilty verdict on all counts.

Ms. Callender also clerked for Judge Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Callender earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999 and her B.A., summa cum laude, in English from Florida A&M University in 1996.

Ms. Callender is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.