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Biography
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 compliance, billing and coding compliance, reimbursement issues, and assisting providers in responding to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) audits, payment suspensions, and investigations.
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.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Arizona
Court Admissions
Supreme Court of Arizona
United States District Court, District of Arizona
Education
University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D., cum laude)
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (Vol. 34), Managing Senior Editor
Health Law Society, President
Veterans Legal Assistance Chair, Military and Veterans Law Society
Dean’s Honor Roll
Harry M. Bainbridge Memorial Scholar
Notre Dame Club of Phoenix, Alumni Member
University of Notre Dame Law School (Program of International Studies, London, England)
University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Health and Societies; Health Policy and Law, magna cum laude)
Penn Club Field Hockey Team, Co-Captain
Dean’s List
Tannenbaum Fellow for the Penn Public Policy Initiative
Experience
Awards & Recognition
The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law (2026-2027)
Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2026-2027)
Government Relations Practice (2025-2027)
Health Care Law (2025-2027)
Southwest Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars Edition, Health Care (2024-2026)
Representative Experience
Claudia’s healthcare practice encompasses a wide range of legal services that are provided in a rapidly changing and highly regulated industry. These include:
Representing physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and behavioral healthcare providers in all aspects of professional licensing board applications, disclosures, and investigations
Privacy and security compliance, including counseling clients on HIPAA and HITECH; internal compliance audits; responding to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) OCR investigations; and managing and reporting data breaches
Drafting HIPAA policies and compliance procedures for individual providers and healthcare entities
Representing healthcare entities and providers in responding to requests and subpoenas for patient medical records
Conducting internal audits and investigations
Counseling clients regarding compliance with 42 CFR Part 2
Counseling clients regarding compliance with Information Blocking requirements and exceptions
Counseling clients regarding compliance with the No Surprises Act
Medicare and Medicaid billing and coding issues, reimbursement, overpayments, audits, enrollment, and contracting counseling
Defended and managed numerous audits and investigations of potential overpayments under the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Sunshine Act, Stark Law, and other fraud and abuse violations for hospitals and physician practices
Advising on and making self-disclosures, formulating corrective action plans, responding to enforcement actions, and negotiating settlements and corporate integrity agreements with government agencies, such as Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System – Office of Inspector General (AHCCCS OIG), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the HHS OIG
Transaction compliance and counseling of fraud and abuse laws in mergers and acquisitions by hospitals and healthcare companies
Regulatory and strategic counseling related to proposed business models
Counseling senior living and post-acute care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, home care, and hospice
Serving as outside counsel for multi and single specialty physician groups, management companies, ambulatory surgery centers, and ancillary service providers
Counseling healthcare entities on state and federal licensing requirements in mergers and acquisitions
Negotiating telehealth services agreements; counseling providers and healthcare entities on telehealth regulatory and licensing requirements
Drafting and negotiating provider employment agreements, professional services agreements, management agreements, marketing and consulting agreements, and direct primary care agreements
Previous Professional Experience
Summer Associate, Snell & Wilmer, LLP
Law Clerk, Institute for Justice—Arizona Office
Intern, House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Washington, D.C. Subcommittee on Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules
Research Assistant, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Medical Center, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center and the Behavioral Health Lab
Professional Memberships and Activities
Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Executive Board Member – Co-Vice President of Website and Marketing (2023 – 2025), Co-Vice President of Programming (2026)
American Health Law Association
Early Career Professionals Council, Member (2023 – 2025)
“Immigration Enforcement Under the Trump Administration: What Healthcare Entities Should Know,” Co-Presenter, Arizona Healthcare Financial Management Association Conference (May 29, 2025)
“Key Issues in Telemedicine and Virtual Care,” Presenter, National Business Institute (May 30, 2024)
“OCR Issues HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy,” Author, Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys (May 16, 2024)
“How Recent Supreme Court Decisions Have Changed the Game for False Claims Act Cases,” Co-Presenter, Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys (December 11, 2023)
“Surprise Billing and Price Transparency: What Providers Should Know About the No Surprises Act,” Presenter, Arizona Medical Group Management Association (April 13, 2023)
“The End of Roe: Understanding the Legal Implications for Patients and Providers,” Co-Presenter, Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys, Arizona Health Law Conference & Annual Meeting (February 24, 2023)
“Surprise Medical Billing & the No Surprises Act,” Presenter, Arizona Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) (September 15, 2022)
“HIPAA & Data Privacy and Security,” Panelist, The Phoenix Business Journal and University of Advancing Technology Panel of Experts on Digital Privacy (September 15, 2022)
“Enforcement and Data Privacy Issues,” Co-Presenter, The Dobbs Ruling: Understanding the Legal Implications in an Evolving Business Environment Webinar (August 4, 2022)
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