Kashmira Makwana

Associate

Kashmira Makwana is an associate in Morgan Lewis's FDA and Healthcare Practice. Ms. Makwana represents a variety of healthcare entities, including hospitals, health systems, health plans, and specialty healthcare providers on a range of regulatory, transactional, and compliance issues. She has assisted clients in responding to investigations related to alleged healthcare fraud and abuse arising under various federal and state healthcare laws and regulations. Ms. Makwana has counseled clients on state corporate practice, fee-splitting, self-referral, kickback prohibitions, licensure requirements, and change-of-ownership requirements.

Ms. Makwana has provided guidance to health plans, third-party administrators, and pharmacy benefit managers on regulatory and compliance issues involving the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug programs. She also has conducted health regulatory due diligence for a variety of healthcare entities, including reviews of a full range of healthcare contracts such as medical director agreements and management services agreements and assessments of compliance policies and procedures.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Makwana was an associate in the healthcare group of an international law firm. While there, she was seconded to a Fortune 50 client from August 2007 through January 2008 to provide on-site legal guidance relating to a number of specialty healthcare services.

Before her legal career, Ms. Makwana was a standards development manager at URAC, a nonprofit accrediting organization for healthcare companies. While at URAC, Ms. Makwana worked with advisory committees composed of representatives of stakeholders in the healthcare industry to develop and revise URAC's nationally recognized accreditation standards for healthcare processes.

Ms. Makwana received her J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University Law School in 2004 and her B.A., cum laude, from the University of Richmond in 1998.

Ms. Makwana is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.