Heather represents health care providers in various transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, provider integrations, joint ventures, management services organization (MSO) models, and other strategic affiliations. She also counsels clients on regulatory and compliance matters, including state and federal regulations governing health care providers, state and federal fraud and abuse matters, professional licensing issues, changes of ownership (CHOW), payor enrollment, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
Heather advises clients with respect to disclosure of compliance issues to state, federal and commercial payors. She assists with internal investigations related to potential compliance concerns, including billing investigations, and has experience preparing, submitting, and resolving matters under various self-disclosure protocols. She also represents clients in settling reimbursement disputes with state, federal, and commercial payors.
Heather assists clients in establishing telehealth and telemedicine programs, consulting on the licensing, data security, and reimbursement issues that arise in the context of virtual care. She also advises providers on corporate issues, including corporate practice of medicine matters, and assists with contractual relationships, including drafting and negotiating clinician employment agreements and other services arrangements.
While in law school, Heather served as a law clerk for the University of Pennsylvania Office of the General Counsel and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.