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Emily J. Cook provides counsel to health care providers on complex regulatory and reimbursement matters. Her regulatory experience includes fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, billing and coding, licensure, survey/certification and accreditation, and compliance with Medicare and state fraud and abuse requirements. She also has significant experience counseling health care providers and other stakeholder entities on issues related to 340B drug pricing program implementation, compliance and advocacy.
Emily previously spent more than five years with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health Policy where she counseled hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and clinics on Medicare reimbursement and regulatory issues. While with HRSA, Emily regularly worked with staff from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other federal and state governmental agencies to address regulatory barriers to health care delivery and was responsible for review and analysis of regulatory policies regarding Medicare reimbursement for HRSA. Emily also served as the senior policy advisor to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services, advising the committee on key issues related to health care policy.
Emily is a contributing editor of the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook, examining the multitude of issues that those who represent hospitals and health system need to be informed.
Ausgewählte Referenzmandate
- Obtained favorable outcomes for clients in government health care program non-compliance self-disclosures to federal and state regulatory agencies
- Counseled large academic medical centers through development and implementation of a collaborative care models involving physicians and mid-level providers
- Successfully appealed adverse findings in government audits of 340B programs for multiple hospital clients and negotiated correction action plans
- Led the successful appeal of a denial of a hospital’s application for Critical Access Hospital status
Auszeichnungen
- Acritas Stars 2020, listed among independently rated lawyers
- The Best Lawyers in America 2019 and 2020, Health Care Law
- Super Lawyers 2012 to 2019, Southern California Rising Star, Health Care
- The Legal 500 US 2017
Mitgliedschaften
- American Health Lawyers Association, Planning Committee for Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues
- California Lawyers Association, Health Law Committee, Chair
Qualifikation
Education
University of Chicago Law School, JD, with honors, 2009
University of North Carolina, MSPH, 2001
Duke University, BA, cum laude, 1998
Admissions
California
