False Claims

Lisa Pratta was a top-selling pharmaceutical and biotech sales representative for thirty-two years, helping to pave the way for women in the field, only to see the entire industry corrode with sexual harassment and fraud. Lisa was an honors graduate of Albright University before launching her career at pharma giants such as Astra Zeneca, Serono, and Questcor/Mallinckrodt. In 2012, while still employed at Questcor, Lisa became a whistleblower reporting off-label prescriptions and Medicare fraud to the United States government and went undercover for nearly a decade. She is a single mother with a special needs son.

"Lisa Pratta’s remarkable account of Big Pharma greed is a testament to her courage as a corporate insider turned whistleblower. False Claims is a page-turning exposè set against the background of Pratta’s steadfast refusal to capitulate to a drug company’s strong-arm pressure. It is a must-read for anyone interested in knowing how America’s drug industry puts profits ahead of patients." — Gerald Posner, author of Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America“If you’ve ever wondered why health care is so expensive in the United States, False Claims is a must read. It is an insider’s tale of one drug company’s disregard for scientific, legal, and moral values in its relentless pursuit of profit; a harrowing story of personal transformation into an activist willing to risk her financial and career security to expose the wrongdoing of her employers; and a deep exploration of her own formative experiences that sensitized her to the pain of injustice and left her more willing to go public with this information. I recommend it highly.” — John Abramson, MD, MSc, author of Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It"A pacey, shocking, and moving account of greed in the pharmaceutical industry. Lisa seamlessly weaves her courageous personal story with the eye-opening excess and deceit of Questcor to deftly show the personal toll of whistleblowing and the cost of staying silent. I devoured False Claims in two sittings." — Cara McGoogan, author of Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis"[A] sterling whistleblower procedural. . . . a vice-tight thriller." — The Ankler"This is both an illuminating up-close look at how corruption works and a moving account of one person discovering her strength." — Publishers Weekly“[Pratta’s] story and internal conflict are laid out in full, from her idealism about health care at the beginning of her career through her disillusionment and fight to reveal the dangerous, money-driven rot in the system. . . . The realities of America’s profit-driven health care system laid bare by an insider." — Kirkus Reviews