Diane M. Racicot

Diane counsels health care providers and managed care health plans with their corporate compliance programs, governance responsibilities, internal audits and corrective actions, responses to government audits and investigations and False Claims Act cases. She focuses on providing compliance counseling to health care providers including, local health care district hospitals, hospices, Tribal health clinics, specialty laboratories, medical groups and other providers, as well as health plans on a range of issues including anti-kickback, physician self-referral (“Stark”), overpayment, debarment/exclusion and privacy (including HIPAA) laws, as well as numerous other laws and regulations. Diane assists Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans with a myriad of contractual, regulatory and operational issues including those involving provider networks, first tier, downstream and related entities (FDRs) and vendors. She also counsels emerging medical device companies on privacy, fraud and abuse and other health care laws. She also has extensive general business and health care litigation and administrative proceedings experience.