Liles Parker PLLC

Robert has an exceptional range of healthcare law. His experience, and down-to-earth character have earned high marks at past PMI conferences. He heads the Washington D.C.- based law firm, Liles Parker, PLLC, one of the nation’s leading law firms representing healthcare providers in civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings related to healthcare fraud defense and regulatory matters. He was the first National Health Care Fraud Coordinator and subsequently worked as Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Attorneys. He also co-authored PMI’s Certified Medical Compliance Officer (CMCO) credential, and serves as outside compliance counsel to a number of national health care organizations.

Heidi is a regulatory and transactional attorney and partner with Liles Parker with more than 20 years of experience in health care legal and compliance-related issues. Formerly a chief privacy officer and interim chief compliance officer at a medical device manufacturer, Heidi has also served as an outside compliance expert to a hospital and a clinical laboratory that were under Corporate Integrity Agreements. She has assisted many clients with telehealth issues, including meeting standards and ensuring proper billing, and has helped clients buy and sell practices or entities. She also has significant reimbursement experience, defending payer audits, challenging loss of billing privileges, obtaining HCPCS codes, and other reimbursement related issues.

Ashley Morgan is Senior Counsel at Liles Parker PLLC and focuses her practice on regulatory health care compliance matters, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement issues. Ashley represents health care providers across the country in connection with a wide variety of health law issues including coverage disputes, documentation concerns, compliance, medical board complaints, and revocation / exclusion issues. Ashley has worked with an assortment of providers including dentists, home health companies, hospice agencies, primary care and specialty physicians, mental health professionals, physical therapists, durable medical equipment suppliers, and licensed acupuncturists.

Ashley has handled claims disputes with major payors including Medicare, Medicaid, various BlueCross BlueShield entities, UnitedHealthcare, and Delta Dental. She has extensive experience working on administrative appeals of large alleged extrapolated overpayments assessed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) contractors including Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPICs) and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and by private payors. Ashley has also successfully defended providers against medical board and nursing board complaints.

Ashley is a Certified Medical Compliance Officer and helps clients implement effective compliance programs and provides counsel on mandatory state and industry-specific policies and procedures. In this capacity, Ashley provides on-site walk-throughs to review OSHA compliance and performs training for staff members on HIPAA and other mandatory compliance regulations. Ashley is also a Certified Professional Coder in addition to a Certified Medical Reimbursement Specialist and conducts GAP Analyses of provider’s medical record documentation to determine areas for improvement with any CMS or private payor documentation requirements.

Ashley is originally from Bethany Beach, Delaware and now lives with her husband and son in Northern Virginia and works in Liles Parker’s Washington, DC office.