Spencer Fane LLP is pleased to welcome Amanda M. Wilwert to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Health Care Practice Group.
Amanda’s integrated practice serves a broad range of health care providers by ensuring compliance within complex and evolving regulatory landscapes, providing sound advice on health care business transactions and related operations, and proactively litigating matters related to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, audits, and appeals. She regularly appears before state and federal regulatory agencies, including state licensing boards, state survey agencies, the Departmental Appeals Board, and the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals.
Amanda assists with everything from routine risk management implementation and day-to-day operations to high-stakes government investigations. Her compliance practice specifically focuses on state license and certification requirements, Medicare and Medicaid participation, HIPAA, HITECH, and reimbursement issues as well as highly sensitive matters pertaining to patient capacity to consent, patient care and treatment issues, and end-of-life care.
As providers approach critical business decisions, Amanda’s comprehensive assistance extends to factors unique to health care, such as change-of-ownership licensing issues, operating transfer agreement, admissions agreements, and managed care agreements.
“Amanda joins us with both comprehensive and highly specialized legal acumen across the full spectrum of health care law and associated litigation,” said Bill Powers, office managing partner for Spencer Fane in Washington, D.C. “Her unique combination of industry knowledge, regulatory prowess, and fierce litigation skills will be a highly influential complement to the important work we do in our nation’s capital and across the firm’s vast network of health care attorneys.”
In addition to her prolific private practice, Amanda is a widely recognized thought leader, frequently authoring industry content and speaking at regional and national conferences throughout the year. She has co-authored chapters in the American Health Law Association’s Health Plans Contracting Handbook and Health Care Compliance Legal Issues Manual and has held prominent leadership positions across regional health law societies and other community-based organizations.
After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from Drake University, Amanda earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from Washburn University, where she served as an articles editor for the Washburn Law Journal and was inducted into the National Order of Scribes for Excellence in Legal Writing.