Vicki is an experienced health care and life sciences regulatory, privacy and digital health attorney. Vicki focuses on counseling clients in navigating the complex and evolving intersection of technology and health care. Clients rely on Vicki to provide strategic advice on how to leverage digital health and data innovation while mitigating risk. She regularly supports clients in telehealth, mobile health apps, smart medical devices, data analytics, strategic data partnerships, online tracking, navigating the evolving reproductive health privacy landscape, offshoring, incident response, interoperability and information blocking compliance, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Serves as HIPAA and health privacy counsel for national and local health care systems and health plans, medical device manufacturers, and health IT companies.
Successfully defended multiple investigations by HHS, Office for Civil Rights regarding data breaches, cybersecurity safeguards, access, and other individual rights complaints, resulting in closures of the investigations with no monetary settlements or corrective action plans.
Serves as privacy counsel to one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, including advising on data and contract strategies, cyber incident response, investigation and reporting, HIPAA and privacy and security compliance program updates, and compliance with the Information Blocking Rule and patient access/interoperability rules.
Serves as HIPAA and health privacy counsel for national and local health care systems and health plans, medical device manufacturers, and health IT companies.
Successfully defended multiple investigations by HHS, Office for Civil Rights regarding data breaches, cybersecurity safeguards, access, and other individual rights complaints, resulting in closures of the investigations with no monetary settlements or corrective action plans.
Serves as privacy counsel to one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, including advising on data and contract strategies, cyber incident response, investigation and reporting, HIPAA and privacy and security compliance program updates, and compliance with the Information Blocking Rule and patient access/interoperability rules.
Advises large health insurance and health system clients on risk mitigation related to use of tracking technologies, responding to government agency inquiries regarding data privacy and security practices, and counseling on data use in the development and improvement of machine learning and artificial intelligence tools.
Counsels multiple health care providers on developing patient communications policies and permissions that comply with federal (e.g., HIPAA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM Act) and state laws.
Drafts health privacy terms in terms of use and privacy policies for digital health websites, mobile apps, and online platforms.
Advises clients on operationalizing compliance with evolving reproductive health privacy standards.
Assists substance use disorder treatment providers in navigating the unique privacy challenges that arise for this aspect of the health care sector due to its regulation by two historically conflicting frameworks: HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, the federal Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulations.
Counseled a new entrant in the 3D-printed anatomical models market on various privacy aspects of its new business line, including compliance with both HIPAA and federal and state privacy laws depending on the personal data at issue.
Assists a Fortune 500 company with EHR technology in navigating the evolving certification criteria and functional requirements for ONC-certified health IT, including compliance with standardized API, electronic health information export and bi-annual attestation requirements, as well as the Information Blocking Rule.
Advises health care providers, including multi-state health systems, long-term care providers, and specialty health care practices, on responding to third party requests for electronic health information in an Information Blocking Rule-compliant manner.
Advised a life sciences company on fraud and abuse risk mitigation strategies in connection with developing and commercializing health IT functionalities to deploy in EHR for providers, such as client clinical decision support alerts, patient risk stratification, or order set optimization functionalities.
Conducts gap analyses and prepares enhancements of health care and life sciences companies’ compliance programs.
Provides regulatory counseling for nationwide outpatient therapy provider on reimbursement and licensure issues.
Counsels pharmacies, health systems, independent diagnostic testing facilities, and DME suppliers on federal and state laws and government health care program standards restricting offshoring.
Advises various medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers on compliance with the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act (aka Open Payments), and related state laws.
Defended nationwide skilled nursing facility chain in Federal False Claims Act investigation and litigation related to rehabilitation therapy billing practices under Medicare and negotiated Settlement Agreement and Corporate Integrity Agreement.
Negotiates and implements corporate integrity agreements for health care and life science companies.
Advised a large U.S. health care company on pilot telehealth and decentralized clinical trial recruitment and participation programs focused on leveraging pharmacy data to identify at-risk and diverse populations with care gaps, as well as potential clinical trial participation opportunities.
Developed the health privacy framework through which a health care trade association collaborated with researchers to establish a government-funded data consortium that affirmatively links certain identifiable EHR data from long-term care providers to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services claims data to enable efficient and collaborative research focused on tracking and responding to emerging diseases and the development and distribution of updated care protocols in accordance with applicable law.
Advised a life sciences company seeking to offer digital tools for nurse educators and coaches to interact with patients about specific products and services with development and commercialization of the tool from a data flow and privacy perspective.
Supports local and multi-state health systems in developing and implementing cutting edge and legally sound health care offerings via telehealth.
Provided regulatory assistance pertaining to HIPAA compliance, telehealth requirements, corporate practice of medicine requirements and prohibitions, and fraud and abuse analysis to a digital health start-up offering a telehealth membership program designed to provide data-driven, personalized care to patients experiencing chronic illnesses.
Provides health care regulatory, compliance, and privacy guidance to technology companies that provide provider-and patient-facing remote patient monitoring and data analytics platform services, including assisting clients with data flows and permissions, technology functionalities, and commercial contracting.
Conducts specialized health privacy and digital health due diligence in connection with large-scale and smaller transactions in the health IT, medical device, and remote monitoring sectors of the health care industry.
Helped a digital health start-up that offers a proprietary AI-based technology that can analyze digital audio biomarkers to aid in clinician and patient decision-making to analyze their customer arrangements from a health privacy perspective and develop a HIPAA and privacy compliance strategy.
Advises health care provider and technology clients on implementing AI-based technologies (e.g., designed to help identify abnormalities in patient scans) and reducing the privacy risks they would face in using such technology through the de-identification of personal data.
Recognitions
- Named a “Rising Star” in the LMG Life Science Guide for Healthcare Pricing and Reimbursement, 2025
- Making Justice Real Pro Bono Award 2016, presented by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
- American Bar Association/Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in Health Law (2015)
Credentials
Education
Education
- The George Washington University Law School, 2014, J.D., Thurgood Marshall Scholar; International Law Review
- The George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services, 2014, M.P.H.
- Dickinson College, 2011, B.A., Law and Policy with honors; Spanish with honors; Phi Beta Kappa; summa cum laude
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Massachusetts
- Pennsylvania
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- American Health Lawyers Association
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