Lisa Lyons

Regulatory compliance guidance for health care providers

Lisa Lyons advises a wide variety of health care providers on regulatory compliance, including issues related to COVID-19, as well as corporate and contracting matters. She has significant experience counseling on the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law and has helped clients with internal investigations and voluntary reporting of compliance matters. Lisa also handles business acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions, and assisted living acquisitions and licensing. Her clients include:

• Hospitals
• Physicians
• Pharmacies
• Other health care providers

• Researches and provides advice regarding federal and state waivers—including Medicare, licensure, the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute—needed by health providers and facilities to respond to COVID-19.
• Reviews surge contracts for facilities to obtain needed supplies, staff and equipment.
• Counsels health care clients to ensure their structure, contracts and transactions comply with the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law.
• Conducts internal investigations leading to voluntary disclosures to government agencies to curb False Claims Act, Stark Law, and fraud, waste and abuse exposure.
• Advises pharmacies, hospitals and physician groups on acceptable patient incentives and financial relationships with business partners.
• Assists long-term care facilities with licensure issues, including initial licensure and responding to statements of deficiency.
• Represents physician groups and hospitals as general outside counsel, meeting a full range of contracting, governance and regulatory compliance needs.