Representative Experience
Defending hospitals and other health care providers against "whistleblower" allegations and lawsuits

Designing and implementing corporate compliance plans; advising corporate compliance officers

Overseeing and conducting internal investigations and, if appropriate, assisting with voluntary disclosures and repayments to government health care programs

Responding to audits by payers, including those involving sampling and extrapolation

Monitoring emerging health care issues and legislation and advising clients of implications for their operations

Representative Clients
Hospitals, nursing facilities, pharmacies, physicians, home health agencies, and other persons and entities that provide health care items or services

Publications and Presentations
How to Create and Maintain a Data Base of Financial Relationships with Physicians, HCCA 11th Annual Compliance Institute (2007)

Arrangements Data Bases: Do CIAs and Mandatory Stark Reporting Make them a "Best Practice?" American Health Lawyers Association & Health Care Compliance Association Fraud and Compliance Forum (2007)

Part D Compliance: We Know Where You’re Goin’, But You Can’t Get There from Here, HCCA Medicare Prescription Drug Part D Compliance Conference (2006)

How To Address Stark Violations, HCCA 10th Anniversary Compliance Institute (2006)

NDC Numbers & Billing Units: Compliance Traps for the Wary and Unwary Alike, HCCA Medicare Part D Conference (2005)

Law School for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Executives, The Pharma, Biotech and Device Colloquium, Princeton University (2005)

"Back to the Future: Mandatory Stark Reporting Looms Once Again," HCCA Compliance Today (Sept. 2007)

"Administrative 'Complification': NDC numbers, prescription drug claims, and the False Claims Act," HCCA Compliance Today (Oct. 2005)

"Keeping Records of Stark II Compliance," HCCA Compliance Today (Dec. 2005)

“Informed Consent in Washington: Expanded Scope of Material Facts that the Physician Must Disclose to His Patient,” 55 Wash. L. Rev. 655 (1980)

Memberships and Activities
American Health Lawyers Association

Hawaii and Washington State Bar Associations

Education
J.D., with high honors, University of Washington School of Law, 1981

• Notes and Comments Editor, Washington Law Review