PITTSBURGH - A key figure in a years-long scheme that allegedly drained nearly $2 million from a regional non-profit healthcare provider is scheduled to plead guilty today in federal court. Drew Pierce, a former top executive for Primary Health Network (PHN), is slated for a change of plea hearing at 1:30 p.m. before U.S. District Judge Nicholas Ranjan in Pittsburgh.

The hearing marks a turn in a complex case that prosecutors say involved a sophisticated pattern of fraud spanning almost a decade, from 2011 to 2019.

Pierce, of West Middlesex, was one of five individuals charged in connection with the alleged scheme to defraud PHN, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing essential community healthcare services across Western Pennsylvania.

Prosecutors allege that high-ranking off

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