Julie Nelson Email and Phone Number

Julie Nelson is a health care regulatory attorney who has represented virtually every type of health care provider in her 20+ year legal career. Julie has a wealth of experience covering a wide variety of regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters.Julie regularly assists providers with other health care regulatory issues, including Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse compliance; anti-kickback statute analysis; Stark law analysis; compliance program reviews and investigations; and health care licensure, certification and accreditation matters. She has advised providers on consent, end of life, behavioral health court-ordered treatment, health care marketing and graduate medical education programs.Julie is one of Arizona's few Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement lawyers and routinely advises providers on a variety of coding, billing and reimbursement matters. Matters range from physician evaluation and management (E/M) coding to home health, skilled nursing facility, and hospital reimbursement. With this unique expertise, she is able to competently represent providers in payor audits, investigations, grievances and administrative appeals, including Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) appeals.She has significant experience with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) law and was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve on the EMTALA Technical Advisory Group (EMTALA TAG), which advised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on EMTALA issues.