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 and scope of practice issues, corporate practice of medicine, and changes of ownership (CHOW), among other operational issues regularly facing providers.
Heather advises clients across the health care industry with respect to the development, implementation, and assessment of corporate compliance programs. She assists with disclosure of compliance issues to state, federal and commercial payors, as well as internal investigations related to potential compliance concerns, and she has experience preparing, submitting, and resolving matters under various self-disclosure protocols.
In addition, Heather advises providers on corporate issues, including proper structuring of physician-related arrangements pursuant to corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and assists with contractual relationships, including drafting and negotiating clinician employment agreements and other services arrangements. She assists clients in establishing telehealth and telemedicine programs, consulting on the licensing, scope of practice, and contractual issues that arise in the context of implementing virtual care programs.
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, providing firsthand assistance to in-house health care regulatory counsel regarding various issues affecting hospital compliance, clinician licensure, and more.