Jolie is a Partner in Wiggin and Danaโ€™s Litigation Department and Health Care Practice Group. Jolie co-leads the firmโ€™s False Claims Act Defense and Compliance Practice Group. Jolie is a seasoned litigator, former federal prosecutor, and skilled negotiator with extensive experience in health care investigations, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on representing and advising clients regarding federal investigations, internal investigations, health care oversight, regulatory compliance and in complex civil litigation, including civil rights and contractual disputes.

Previously, Jolie served for almost a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, including as Chief of Healthcare Fraud. Drawing upon her background in investigating and prosecuting fraud matters against pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, hospital systems, laboratories, physician practice groups and individual providers, Jolie now represents clients in government and internal investigations with a particular focus advising on the False Claims Act, federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act, HIPAA and other health care fraud and abuse laws and health care regulations.

In addition to representing clients in health care litigation, Jolie also provides regulatory and compliance counsel throughout appeals of reimbursement decisions, administrative sanctions, and matters relating to allegations of billing fraud, including payment reviews, audits and responding to agency warning letters. Jolie represents entities and their executives before HHS-OIG, DOJ, and other federal agency OIGs and state attorneys generals.

Prior to becoming Chief of Healthcare Fraud, Jolie also represented the United States in constitutional and employment matters. She successfully argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Before becoming an AUSA, Jolie was an attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP where she handled significant complex commercial disputes in areas including intellectual property, securities, and civil RICO. In her extensive pro bono matters, she successfully litigated womenโ€™s health, domestic violence, federal criminal defense matters and asylum.ย 

Jolie earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A.,ย magna cum laudeย in History and English from Mount Holyoke College. She currently teaches Advanced Legal Methods at New York Law School.

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.)
  • Mount Holyoke College (B.A.)
    • magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

Court Admissions

Memberships and Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • American Health Law Association
    • Co-Chair of the Risk Management Subcommittee
  • Federal Bar Council
  • New York State Bar Association
  • National Health Care Compliance Association, ย NY chapter
  • Women in Bio
  • Womenโ€™s White Collar Defense Association

Awards and Recognitions

Publications

Events

When: November 14, 2025

at 11:15am

Location: Virtual

People: Jolie Apicella

When: October 21, 2025

at 12:30pm

- 1:45pm

Location: Connecticut Hospital Association

People: Jody Erdfarb , Jolie Apicella

When: January 27, 2026

at 10:00am

Location: New York, NY

People: Jolie Apicella

When: March 25, 2025

at 2:00pm

Location: Hotel Indigo Grand Cayman

People: Jolie Apicella

When: January 28, 2025

at 3:15pm

Location: New York City Bar Association

People: Jolie Apicella

When: October 29, 2024

at 11:15am

- 12:15pm

Location: Renaissance Harborplace Hotel

People: Jolie Apicella

When: September 19, 2024

at 1:30pm

Location: Live Casino Hotel

People: Jolie Apicella

When: May 2, 2024

at 11:50am

- 12:50pm

Location: Mohegan Sun

People: Jolie Apicella , Jody Erdfarb

When: January 24, 2024

at 10:15am

- 11:15am

Location: New York, NY

People: Jolie Apicella

When: December 12, 2023

at 2:00pm

- 3:30pm

Location: Virtual

People: Jolie Apicella

When: June 5, 2023

Location: Connecticut Convention Center

People: Jody Erdfarb , Jolie Apicella

When: May 3, 2023

Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

People: Jody Erdfarb , Jolie Apicella

When: October 13, 2021

at 10:00am

- 10:45am

Location: Boston, MA

People: Jolie Apicella

When: January 27, 2020

Location: Park Lane Hotel, NYC

People: Jolie Apicella

When: September 28, 2021

at 1:50pm

Location: Virtual

People: Jolie Apicella

When: October 1, 2022

People: Jolie Apicella

When: July 19, 2022

Location: Atlanta, GA

People: Jolie Apicella

When: September 28, 2022

at 9:30am

Location: Boston, MA

People: Jolie Apicella

When: March 14, 2023

at 9:00am

- 5:45pm

Location: Washington, DC

People: Jolie Apicella

When: November 8, 2022

People: Jolie Apicella

Experience

False Claims Act

  • Defending an Ivy League university in an ongoing qui tam โ€œimplied certification theoryโ€ FCA lawsuit in the District of DC, alleging misrepresentations of Title IX compliance in federal grant certifications
  • Defended a telehealth provider in a federal FCA investigation into billing practices, involving services provided in multiple states, resulting in a favorable settlement
  • Defended numerous physicians and medical health professionals in FCA investigations pending in the Southern and Eastern Districts of NY and District of CT, all relating to the submission of allegedly false claims to federal health programs, negotiating favorable settlements for clients and avoiding any criminal charges
  • Represented private equity client in government investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Units and Departments of Health in NY and CT, resulting in no claims brought in any jurisdiction

White Collar

  • Represented doctor at sentencing for PPP loan fraud in federal district court; mitigated sentence
  • Represented doctor in criminal sentencing, a potential civil investigation, and debarment from participating in the government health care benefit programs
  • Represented business owner in fraud proffer for a matter investigated by a District Attorney

Health Care Litigation

  • Representing hospitals and health systems in challenging the refusal by insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans to provide retroactive payments in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling striking down Medicareโ€™s reduction of payments to non-profit hospitals under the 340B Drug Discount Program; litigation pending in Delaware, Indiana, and Connecticut
  • Defending a New York hospital in civil rights action stemming from reporting to New York Cityโ€™s Administration for Childrenโ€™s Services

Heath Care and Life Sciences Regulatory Counsel

  • Regularly assist hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, and life science companies with issues such as Stark law, Anti-Kickback statute, False Claims Act and Sunshine Act analysis, policy drafting, federal and state investigations, patient abuse investigations, provider disclosures and self-reporting to the Office of Inspector General (OIG), and compliance planning

Elder Care Law

  • Representing children of Alleged Incapacitated Persons in a contested Article 81 Guardianship proceeding with hearings lasting multiple months and billions of dollars at issue, pending in New York Supreme Court

Intellectual Property

  • Represented companies in copyright and trade dress infringement action brought by competitors alleging unauthorized use*
  • Represented multiple sports teams in trademark infringement and dilution cases*
  • Represented insurance company in trademark infringement action concerning trademark ownership*

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*Matters were completed while working at a prior firm.

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