Attorney Lesley Yeung is a Member of the Firm in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. She has been selected to the Washington DC Rising Stars list (2014 to 2020) in the area of Health Care.
Lesley advises health care providers and health-related companies, financial institutions and investors of industry trends and policy developments and on legal and regulatory matters arising under Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursement programs. She advises clients regarding federal and state health care regulatory issues, including licensing and reimbursement matters associated with change of ownership, and she assists health care providers with government investigations relating to health care fraud and abuse arising under anti-kickback laws, the Stark Law and the False Claims Act.
Lesley recently served as a law clerk at a large nonprofit membership organization, where she supported litigation efforts related to the provision of long-term care services under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Prior to attending law school, Lesley was a health insurance specialist at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She also previously worked as a program analyst at the Department of Health and Human Services and as a presidential management fellow at the National Institutes of Health.