Overview
Eleanor Chung is a litigator, strategic advisor, and creative problem-solver for health care and life sciences companies.
Hospital systems, hospital staffing companies, and providers turn to Eleanor to handle their investigations, complex litigation matters, and appeals in the areas of health care fraud and abuse, long-term care, and federal and state False Claims Act matters. She is also particularly adept at advising clients on issues regarding artificial intelligence (AI), information blocking, and the liability of health care professionals. Eleanor has successfully negotiated the settlement of a health care fraud case without a corporate integrity agreement, advised a client in an investigation dealing with predictive coding, and assisted clients with numerous repayment issues.
Eleanor is the author of Pleading Causes of Action in Maryland, 7th ed., the best-selling, standard reference on Maryland Civil Procedure that is frequently quoted by Maryland jurists. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of health care topics, from medical licensure and global health, to CMS Innovation Awards for behavioral health care, to ownership of rare genetic samples. In law school, she served as a research assistant for Frank Pasquale’s New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Eleanor worked as a medical malpractice and nursing home abuse and neglect litigator, handling every part of the litigation process, from depositions to dispositive motions to appellate argument, and achieving major lower and appellate court victories.
While working toward her law degree, Eleanor completed a legal internship at the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute, where she studied the use of AI to identify disease-causing genes and analyzed federal and state law to determine ownership interests in genomic data and samples. She also clerked at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, where she supported high-profile environmental litigation.
Prior to law school, Eleanor spent five years as a medical administrator, where she led a private medical practice’s transition to electronic medical records and oversaw coding and billing. Before that, she journeyed to South Korea on a Fulbright Scholarship. She stayed an additional two years to teach English at a college near the Demilitarized Zone and to study the Korean language.
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Focus Areas
Services
Experience
Recognition
- Maryland Rising Stars, Health Care and Appellate (2021 to 2022)
- Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association Award (2019)
- Washington, DC, Rising Stars, Health Care, Business Litigation, Appellate (2021, 2022, 2024)
Credentials
Education
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (J.D., 2018)
- Health Law Certificate
- CALI Award, Health Care Law and Policy
- Managing Editor, Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
- Alumni Association Award for the Student who Most Contributed to the Law School through Character and Leadership
- New College of Florida (B.A., 2007)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Inns of Court Foundation, The Hon. James MacGill Chapter
- Maryland State Bar Association
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Alumni Mentor
Languages
- Korean
Media
Events
Insights
Insights
- BlogsNew York’s Health Information Privacy Act Poised to Become the Latest in a Growing Trend of State Data Privacy Laws ...8 minute read
- PublicationsNew Wine into Old Wineskins: Artificial Intelligence Fraud and Abuse Enforcement13 minute read
- PublicationsWho’s Reading Your Mind? Exploring the Intersection of Neural Data and Privacy Protections10 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Fourteen Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Named to the 2024 Washington, DC, Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
7 minute read - BlogsPRF Update: HRSA Sends Out “Audit Reporting Requirement Attestation” Notice Mandating Quick Action3 minute read
- Media CoverageEleanor Chung Quoted in “Senators Told That AI Is Already Harming Patients”Fall 20232 minute read
- BlogsWhite House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries ...6 minute read
- BlogsHRSA Initiates Audits and Requires Return of Provider Relief Funds6 minute read
- PublicationsHRSA Initiates Audits and Requires Return of Provider Relief Funds3 minute read
- BlogsHHS OIG's 13 New FAQs Shed Light on Post-Public Health Emergency Enforcement10 minute read
- Media Coverage
Eleanor Chung Profiled in the Maryland Bar Journal’s “Member Focus” Spotlight
1 minute read - PublicationsPleading Causes of Action in Maryland, Seventh Edition4 minute read
- BlogsPrivate Equity’s Impact on Nursing Home Quality of Care4 minute read
- BlogsDOJ Announces Enforcement Action Involving “Largest and Most Wide-Ranging” COVID-19 Fraud Detected to Date4 minute read
- PublicationsIs Private Equity Really the Boogeyman in Nursing Home Quality of Care?4 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Thirteen Attorneys Named to the 2022 Washington, DC, Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
5 minute read - Publications
Community Health Workers and Behavioral Health Care, Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
June 2020 - Publications
Should Patient Groups Have the Power to Redirect How Their Samples Are Used? – American Journal of Bioethics
August 2019 - Publications
Not Above the Law: A Legal and Ethical Analysis of Short-Term Experiences in Global Health, Annals of Global Health
June 2019