Peter Parvis

Peter Parvis helps clients identify their goals and objectives and strategies to achieve them; structures those strategies to avoid the mine field of regulations, and criminal and civil penalties which are the hallmark of modern health care; and assists clients in implementing the chosen strategies. Experienced and known for his knowledge of legal details, Mr. Parvis offers clients the benefits of his long and successful record in the rapidly changing field of health care. He has spearheaded efforts to consolidate medical resources for efficiency and quality care. His experience in having represented all elements of the pharmaceutical and DME field, hospitals, other institutional providers, physicians, and payors, including Blue Cross Associations and HMOs, provides the necessary base to advise clients in how best to protect and position themselves in the frequently chaotic health care environment. Mr. Parvis was named one of Baltimore’s outstanding lawyers by Baltimore magazine. Mr. Parvis represented clients in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s 2003-2004 investigation into pharmaceutical pricing and the Medicaid system; and the Federal Trade Commission’s 2005 study of the competitive impact of the PBM industry’s practices, with particular focus on the ownership of mail order pharmacies. Mr. Parvis, Bill Coston and other Venable lawyers, on behalf of a national entity, brought a federal action which resulted in declaring a state Medicaid system’s two-tiered approach that paid chain pharmacies substantially less than smaller pharmacies for identical drugs unlawful under the federal Medicaid Act and the U.S. Constitution. See Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Knickrehm, E.D. Ark (June 7, 2000). Mr. Parvis is active in several health care associations, such as Health Care Financial Management, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. He is also a member of Doctors Advisory Service of the American Medical Association.