A healthcare litigator, Christina brings practical knowledge of healthcare finance and operations to her representation of clients.
Christina’s career centered on healthcare even in her pre-law days: prior to attending law school, she served as a chief accountant and finance director at a healthcare startup, numerous physician practices, a home health organization, and a major for-profit hospital corporation. She saw firsthand the challenges and complexity of the healthcare industry and worked to align the details of patient care with proactive compliance, organizational growth, and cost efficiency.
Most of Christina’s legal practice has also focused on healthcare, giving her a 360-degree view of the industry. While serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Missouri for nearly a decade, she often handled medical malpractice matters, healthcare fraud, and qui tam actions. She later accepted an in-house counsel role on the medical campus of a large private university, guiding the medical school, health sciences college, and nursing school, as well as a physician practice of more than 500 providers.
At Husch Blackwell, Christina represents clients in a wide variety of healthcare litigation, including insurance questions, reimbursement disputes, regulatory matters, and Department of Justice investigations. With a solid background in the industry, she readily grasps the unique complexities of these cases, as well as the high stakes for healthcare providers and their practices. Christina knows how dedicated the firm’s clients are to providing quality patient care, and she believes they deserve equally dedicated legal advocates.
Christina also has a particular focus on white collar defense within the healthcare industry. She regularly represents clients who have been targeted by government investigations, often persuading the government not to pursue an indictment. Her experience includes qui tam allegations, allegations of tax and other financial fraud, potential violations related to opioids and other prescription drugs, and a variety of other healthcare-related violations. Thanks to her time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Christina has an inside perspective on the government’s usual roadmap for investigations and indictments, and she has also earned the trust of agents and investigators, helping her achieve faster resolutions. Clients can be confident that Christina will secure the best results possible.