Laura helps healthcare clients navigate compliance matters so they can focus on the business of patient care.
Laura assists for-profit and not-for-profit long-term care facilities, acute-care hospitals, hospice providers, ambulatory care centers, pharmacy benefit managers, physician group practices and hospital systems operating in the highly regulated healthcare space. Working closely with clients, Laura creates policies, procedures and long-term strategies that meet and exceed quickly changing state and federal laws in order to mitigate risk. She also defends clients faced with audits, investigations or enforcement by regulatory agencies. The issues Laura handles for clients include:
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Stark law
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
- Fraud and abuse
- Federal and state insurance
- Licensing
In addition to Laura’s Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance Counseling practice, she is an award-winning litigator, known and appreciated as a devoted client advocate. Additionally, she has significant experience in the labor and employment sector. Laura has handled Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and state agency investigations, Title VII and Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) claims, and the design and defense of provider agreements. Healthcare providers value Laura’s ability to see healthcare regulatory matters through her more than two decades of broad legal experience. She identifies solutions that set healthcare operators on optimal paths for both their business and their patients.