Melissa focuses her practice on health care law, corporate law, regulatory and compliance issues, and food and drug law. She advises clients on issues related to Stark Law, Anti-kickback issues, and various state law issues. Melissa enjoys helping clients solve multi-faceted legal issues, and her clients range from large health systems to ambulatory surgery centers to individual providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has experience representing buyers and sellers in complex transactional matters. She also has advised clients in various employment matters, drafting and negotiating service agreements, federal and state agency compliance, clinical research compliance, and HIPAA matters. Melissa also has had extensive experience counseling a myriad of clients who are managing various operational issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to her regulatory and transactional experience, Melissa has experience representing individual providers before state licensing boards and in various payor enrollment matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to studying law she was a clinical research coordinator in women\u2019s health and HIV\/AIDS prevention. She managed clinical research protocols and conducted quality control and monitoring of domestic and international projects. She has been certified in clinical research (CCRP) and public health (CPH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before joining the firm, Melissa interned with Judge Michael Wojcik of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Health Law Clinic, served as a teaching assistant in the Health Care Compliance graduate certificate and legal writing programs, and worked for a nonprofit environmental law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Melissa focuses her practice on health care law, corporate law, regulatory and compliance issues, and food and drug law. She advises clients on issues related to Stark Law, Anti-kickback issues, and various state law issues. Melissa enjoys helping clients solve multi-faceted legal issues, and her clients range from large health systems to ambulatory surgery centers\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":59468,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","people","type-people","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n