Lisa is a trusted advisor to clients across the healthcare industry who are contemplating major strategic initiatives to enhance their businesses in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
For over three decades, Lisa has served as a trusted advisor to healthcare providers, and during that time, she has helped industry leaders overcome the challenges of a constantly changing marketplace. She routinely tackles her clients’ major strategic events, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and reorganizations, as well as providing day-to-day legal advice addressing critical areas of concern, including fraud and abuse, physician self-referral laws, enrollment and certification, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, managed care contracting, hospital-physician alignment strategies, privacy and governance issues.
Lisa’s healthcare provider clients span the breadth of the industry itself and include physician groups, regional and national hospitals, long-term care facilities, diagnostic testing facilities, surgery centers, and medical equipment suppliers, among others.
As the industry has consolidated, Lisa has advised clients on the challenges that come with larger, more complex, multistate operations. She has assisted clients during the M&A process—helping them navigate the extensive web of government regulation and in working through complicated executive-level employment agreements—as well as providing key advice post-merger across virtually all areas of operation.
Lisa also guides clients through billing investigations by various federal and state agencies, as well as private payors, and she advises clients with regard to voluntary disclosures of overpayments.
Most recently, Lisa has completed Mediator Training with the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) with a view toward expanding her negotiating skills as a mediator of healthcare disputes.
Lisa is a frequent speaker and author and has provided numerous articles and presentations for American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the South Carolina Hospital Association, and several physician specialty associations regarding healthcare compliance, Stark and anti-kickback law, and corporate transactions.