Heather R. Alleva*

Served as lead attorney or lead associate in various acquisition transactions involving health care providers, including numerous physician practice acquisitions, the sale of five clinical trial sites owned by a clinical research organization, the sale of a large GI specialty physician practice to private equity, and many more.

Led a hospital client team in investigating several violations of the Stark Law and prepared corresponding disclosures to CMS.

Reviewed the effectiveness of numerous providers' corporate compliance programs in various roles, including with respect to voluntary compliance effectiveness reviews and in the role of IRO where the provider is subject to an OIG CIA.

Assisted a client to establish a telehealth program, including the negotiation of service agreements, restructuring of an existing program to avoid the improper practice of medicine across state lines, and mitigating other regulatory and licensure issues around non-physician practitioners.

Drafted expert reports on structuring guidelines to protect entities from piercing the corporate veil and alter ego claims.

Served as lead associate in representing a large, multi-state physician practice in a restructuring plan to comply with both Pennsylvania and New Jersey regulations, as well as tax code.

Counseled an academic medical center client in allocating CARES Act funding to appropriate COVID-19-related expenditures.

Served as lead associate and assisted in the integration of a specialty hospital with a Pennsylvania multi-hospital health system.

Represented out-of-network health care providers in successfully resolving underpayments and alleged overpayment refund demands by commercial health insurance plans.

Served as lead associate in investigations into data security incidents, including disclosures of HIPAA breaches to OCR.

Led a client team in negotiating a settlement agreement resolving both corporate and compliance issues related to laboratory services.

Assisted multiple residential facilities in reviewing their compliance with and ability to receive Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF) status to provide inpatient psychiatric services to Medicaid-eligible individuals under the age of 21.

Assisted in white collar defense matters, including conducting internal investigations to respond to civil and criminal investigative demands and to prepare for subpoenas and/or testimony.

Reviewed and updated a substance abuse facility's billing policies and procedures.

Represented a behavioral health provider in conducting internal investigations of potential overpayments, non-compliance with fraud and abuse statutes and making appropriate self-disclosures to payers.