Seasoned healthcare regulatory legal professional with a passion for assisting businesses in navigating the complexities of healthcare regulations. As an innovative problem-solver and take-action leader, I excel in advancing organizations by balancing business opportunities with calculated risk while ensuring regulatory compliance.In my role as LifeStance’s Chief Compliance Officer, I oversee the LifeStance compliance program, privacy program, and patient rights program. Additionally, I provide business, strategic, and risk counsel to support the organization’s growth and success.Previous experiences include being the Chief Compliance Officer for two nationally operating multi-facility healthcare organizations, and regulatory compliance counsel at a Fortune 500 health care provider, DaVita, Inc. In my years of Compliance experience, I have learned best practices while managing key elements of a company's Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) and provided strategic, risk management, and operational leadership to executive teams and staff. I have mitigated business risks with auditing and monitoring work plans and activities. Developed legal and compliance programs from the ground up to molding existing compliance programs into more sophisticated ones matching existing risk profiles. Experiences include drafting policies and procedures for PE backed start-up enterprises, oversight of hundreds of investigations, leadership of committee meetings with executive teams and boards, responses to state and federal inquiries, creation and delivery of trainings for employees, and formation of processes to identify and mitigate risks to the organization. I have navigated and resolved large-scale privacy/data security breaches, completed company IPO organization regulatory readiness, assisted with a dozen company integrations, and quarterly board and compliance audit committee meetings.

The most senior compliance leader within the Everside Health organization. Assisting in build a robust and effective compliance program for a PE owned, nationally operating organization. Dynamic professional experienced in successfully navigating complex state laws to support organizations in offering and providing comprehensive healthcare services. Proven track record in providing regulatory, operational and strategic support of primary care, occupational health, physical therapy, mental health, and telehealth services across diverse regulatory environments.

Is responsible for compliance policies and standards, overseeing and monitoring Laboratory’s compliance activities, achieving and maintaining compliance. Oversee, coordinate, and monitor the day-to-day compliance activities of Laboratory and the compliance program operation. Legal advice on, among other things, defining and establishing appropriate company standards in the context of attaining its business objectives.Establish a regulatory compliance manual. Develop and coordinate appropriate compliance training and education programs. Ensure that all employees understand Laboratory’s commitment to comply with all laws, regulations, compliance program policies, and ethical requirements applicable to the conduct of its business. Assess the need for additional training and education and develop appropriate compliance training programs as necessary. Develop, coordinate and/or oversee internal and external audit procedures for the purpose of monitoring and detecting any misconduct or non-compliance, and recommend any necessary follow up to ensure that recommendations have been implemented. Develop a reporting system enabling employees to report any non-compliance without fear of retribution, and promptly investigate allegations of non-compliance. Ensure that a mechanism is in place for disciplining instances of non-compliance, including the failure to prevent, detect, or report any non-compliance, appropriate to the nature and extent of the deviation, and ensure consistency in the application of disciplinary actions. Ensure high ethical standards by establishing minimum standards of conduct and performing appropriate checks on potential employees. Report to the owner and directors, as may be necessary, concerning any significant compliance issues and ensure that appropriate action is taken. Ensure that providers who order testing and services from Laboratory are informed of Laboratory’s compliance program standards with respect to coding, billing, and marketing.

Member of compliance legal team responsible for DaVita’s compliance with federal and state health care regulations. Effectively perform compliance analysis, due diligence, and renegotiation of diverse health care contracts to ensure compliance with the Corporate Integrity Agreement; draft internal policies and procedures; review corporate practices; and evaluate health care regulations in order to mitigate risks for DaVita. Successfully manage large work plan with various tasks, including but not limited to legal research; 50 state surveys; agreement initiation, review and reformation; perform compliance interviews; draft memoranda, presentations, and agreements; and manage DaVita’s Exit Interview, Compliance Hotline and Annual Compliance Interview processes. Responsible for ensuring compliance for the Patient Enriched by Partnership department, which performs one third of DaVita’s programs. Draft departmental risk assessment pursuant to Department of Justice's sentencing guidelines and implement corrective action plan.