Tim McCormack is an attorney with Preti Flaherty’s Litigation Practice Group in the Portland, Maine, office. He has extensive experience representing whistleblowers in “qui tam” lawsuits brought under the Federal and various state False Claims Acts, claims made under the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower programs. His clients have successfully helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars at the state and federal level.

Highly sought after for his subject matter knowledge, Tim is a frequent author and speaker on issues related to health care reimbursement and coding, provider contracting, commercial and government managed care programs (including Medicare Advantage risk adjustment fraud), the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws, and the use of data and analytics in the detection and remediation of fraud. He is a pioneer in identifying fraud in the Medicare Managed Care/Medicare Advantage program involving upcoding of patient diagnoses in the risk adjustment/risk scoring program.

Tim is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and Harvard University. While in law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Law Review and held clerkships with the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Following law school, Tim served as a policy advisor for labor, agriculture, forestry, and veterans’ issues for U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins.

With nearly two decades of experience as an attorney, Tim joins Preti Flaherty following several years at a notable law firm in Maine and partnerships at two prominent law firms in Washington, D.C. 

Tim lives in Yarmouth.