Claudia Stedman’s practice is focused in healthcare compliance, regulatory matters, and transactions for healthcare organizations and providers. These matters include:
- Fraud, waste, and abuse counseling regarding the False Claims Act, Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute, including assisting providers with self-disclosures, responding to both state and federal investigations, and structuring healthcare transactions to comply with relevant fraud and abuse laws.
- Professional licensing board representation, including assisting providers in applying for healthcare professional licenses and representing and counseling providers throughout healthcare licensing board investigations.
- Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and contracting, billing and coding compliance, reimbursement issues, and assisting providers in responding to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) audits, investigations, and appeals.
- Compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), Information Blocking, and 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 2, including compliance with the Privacy and Security Rule, and assisting providers in responding to Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigations.
- Compliance with state and federal licensing requirements for healthcare entities.
- Healthcare provider and business contracts, including employment agreements, consulting agreements, management agreements, marketing agreements, and professional services agreements.
- Telehealth regulatory and licensing compliance and drafting telehealth policies and procedures.
- Direct primary care and concierge medicine arrangements, and remote patient monitoring arrangements.
Claudia is a member of Snell & Wilmer’s Attorney Development Committee, is a mentor for the firm’s Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) program and is a mentor for the firm’s First-Gen Forward program.
