Health & Life Sciences

Our Team

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Thomas W. Beimers
Special Counsel Health & Life Sciences

Thomas Beimers counsels health care clients on regulatory, compliance and health care fraud matters. Thomas was senior counsel at HHS-OIG, where he worked on health care fraud matters involving off-label marketing, drug pricing, kickback violations, and Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rules.  He also has experience negotiating and monitoring CIAs involving providers and manufacturers. From 2008 to 2010, he prosecuted criminal health care fraud cases as part of DOJ’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force.

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Blake R. Carlile
Associate Health & Life Sciences

Blake Carlile concentrates his practice on corporate and regulatory law, with an emphasis on health care organizations and nonprofit entities.

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Jay D. Christiansen
Partner Health & Life Sciences

Jay Christiansen has represented hospitals, physicians, HMOs and numerous health-related joint ventures for more than 25 years. Jay is a Past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section, an association of over 9,000 health law attorneys. He is a frequent speaker nationally on Medicare fraud and abuse, the Stark law, and provider disclosure and repayment obligations.

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Gina M. Kastel
Partner Health & Life Sciences

Gina Kastel counsels health care providers, health plans, and medical device manufacturers on a wide range of regulatory matters, including data privacy and security, billing and reimbursement issues, compliance with fraud and abuse prevention laws, and licensure and accreditation.

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Steve Lokensgard
Special Counsel Health & Life Sciences

Steve Lokensgard has extensive experience with identifying and managing regulatory and financial risk. He assists health care clients with a variety of claims appeals and compliance matters, including preparation for and response to Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor audits. Steve also provides counsel on issues related to transactions, fraud and abuse enforcement, HIPAA privacy, billing and reimbursement, and general health law.

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Eric M. Marshall
Associate Health & Life Sciences

Eric Marshall’s practice is concentrated on regulatory and transactional issues related to health care organizations, such as fraud and abuse matters and data privacy issues.

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Annie O'Neill
Associate Health & Life Sciences

Annie O’Neill focuses her practice on health care and nonprofit law. She advises a variety of providers, medical device manufacturers and nonprofit organizations.She represents providers on various health law transactional and regulatory issues, including fraud and abuse laws, self-referral laws, and health data privacy.

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Thomas S. Schroeder
Partner Health & Life Sciences

Tom Schroeder focuses his practice on health care transactions, regulatory compliance, health information privacy, Medicare/Medicaid issues, and tax exemption matters.