Donna Thiel, shareholder in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office and co-chair of the Firm's Drug, Device & Life Sciences Industry Group, represents a broad range of providers and practitioners, including hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, rehabilitation providers, medical device suppliers, providers and physicians. She concentrates her practice on regulatory issues affecting health care providers and practitioners in their operations, transactions and compliance efforts with particular focus on Medicare and Medicaid payment systems.
Ms. Thiel is proficient in developing models for joint ventures, physician-hospital relationships, and contracts in compliance with reimbursement fraud and abuse and Stark Law principles. She advises clients on securitizations with Medicare receivables and provides reimbursement advice for joint ventures and corporate transactions, including provider-based and under-arrangement ventures. Ms. Thiel addresses Medicare Part B coverage and billing issues and assists in obtaining coverage for new technologies. She also helps clients to manage, monitor and evaluate their compliance programs and billing operations.
Ms. Thiel also has a comprehensive health care litigation background, including defense of civil fraud enforcement and monetary penalties actions, and representing clients before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, administrative law judges and the Provider Reimbursement Review Board.
Ms. Thiel is also an active speaker and writer on health care regulation, compliance, fraud and abuse and reimbursement issues.
- "See for Yourself: A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Conducting Internal Investigations and Audits," Co-authored with Mark A. Srere and Aretha D. Davis, Copyright 2003, HCPro, Inc.
- Medical Technology Reimbursement Specialist Workshop: Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) 2006, 2007
- "Legal Considerations and Guidelines for Reimbursement and Marketing of Medical Devices"
- "Medicare Administrative Law Appeals"
- "Anatomy of an Investigation," D.C. Bar Association, Health Law Section, April 30, 2007
- "Appeals of National and Local Coverage Determinations," National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) 2006 Annual Meeting
- Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (2009 and 2010)
- Named an Outstanding Healthcare Fraud and Compliance Lawyer by Nightingale's Healthcare News (2008)
- Member – American Health Lawyers Association
- Member – D.C. Bar Association, Health Law Section
- Member – American Bar Association, Health Law Section
- District of Columbia, 1982
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit
- Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1982
- Editor – Annual Review of Banking Law
- Drew University, B.A., 1979, cum laude