Tisha H.B. Schestopol

Associate

Tisha H.B. Schestopol is an associate in Morgan Lewis's FDA and Healthcare Practice. Ms. Schestopol focuses her practice on the defense of clients under federal investigations for alleged healthcare fraud and abuse arising under antikickback, physician self-referral, false claims, and other federal and state healthcare laws and regulations. She also counsels clients on healthcare regulatory matters related to reimbursement under Medicare, Medicaid, and other third-party reimbursement programs and state regulatory issues, including licensure requirements, reporting obligations, corporate practice of medicine prohibitions, and change-in-ownership requirements.

Ms. Schestopol assists clients in drafting and implementing healthcare compliance policies and programs. She also conducts health regulatory due diligence reviews of healthcare entities, including the assessment of potential exposure related to pending litigation, business-sector-specific risks, compliance program structure and implementation, and policies and procedures.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Schestopol was an associate in the healthcare group of an international law firm. Before her legal career, Ms. Schestopol worked for three years at a global consulting firm, where she provided high-end healthcare consulting services to the healthcare industry. While there, she conducted operational evaluations to redesign the cost-allocation systems of commercial health insurance corporations to effectuate proper profit and loss determinations, reviewed Medicare contractor policies and procedures to validate transfer of balance sheet assets, and assessed vendor compliance under health regulatory requirements and contract terms to prepare damages calculation.

Ms. Schestopol earned her J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law in 2005 and her B.B.A. from Emory University in 1997.

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