Claudia E. Stedman, Associate at our Phoenix law office
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Claudia E. Stedman

Associate
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 enrollment and contracting, billing and coding compliance, reimbursement issues, and assisting providers in responding to CMS audits, investigations, and appeals.
  • Compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, Information Blocking, and 42 CFR Part 2, including compliance with the Privacy and Security Rule, and assisting providers in responding to 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 FAR program, and is a mentor for the firm’s First-Gen Forward program.

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)
    • Managing Senior Editor, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (Vol. 34)
    • President, Health Law Society
    • Veterans Legal Assistance Chair, Military and Veterans Law Society
    • Dean’s Honor Roll
    • Harry M. Bainbridge Memorial Scholar
    • Alumni Member, Notre Dame Club of Phoenix
  • 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)
    • Co-Captain, Penn Club Field Hockey Team
    • Dean’s List
    • Tannenbaum Fellow for the Penn Public Policy Initiative
Experience

Awards & Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Ones to Watch, Government Relations Practice; Health Care Law (2025)
  • Southwest Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars Edition, Health Care (2024-2025)

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 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 ADHS, Arizona’s AHCCCS OIG, 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 (2019)
  • Law Clerk, Institute for Justice—Arizona Office (2018)
  • Intern, House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Washington, D.C. Subcommittee on Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules (2016)
  • Research Assistant, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Medical Center, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center and the Behavioral Health Lab (2015)

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys
    • Executive Board Member – Co-Vice President of Website and Marketing (2023 – Present)
  • American Health Law Association
    • Early Career Professionals Council, Member (2023 – Present)

Community Involvement

  • Ryan House
    • Development Committee

Representative Presentations and Publications