Abby Pendleton is a founding partner of The Health Law Partners, P.C. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wayne State University Law School in 1996 and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Ms. Pendleton was a member of the Wayne State Law Review and served on its editorial board as a Senior Articles Editor. While at Wayne State, she was a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Contracts and Criminal Law as well as the Deloitte and Touche LLP Award for her achievement in tax law.
Ms. Pendleton has been practicing healthcare law since 1996. She regularly provides counsel to healthcare providers and organizations in a number of areas, including but not limited to: compliance, Recovery Audit Contractors ("RACs"), Medicare and other payor audits, fraud and abuse, reimbursement matters, and HIPAA Privacy and Security, and physician staff privilege and licensure matters. Ms. Pendleton also specializes in legal issues impacting billing and management companies, anesthesia and pain management providers, hospice providers and mental health agencies.
Ms. Pendleton is a member of the State Bar of Michigan (Member, Health Care Law Section); the American Health Lawyer's Association; the Health Care Compliance Association; the Medical Group Management Association and the Michigan Medical Group Management Association.
- Wayne State University Law School
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif , Recipient of the American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Contracts and Criminal Law , Recipient of the Deloitte and Touche LLP Award for Tax Law
- Activities: Law Review: Wayne Law Review Senior Articles Editor Honors
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- Central Michigan University
- B.S.B.A. | Finance
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- Honors: Cum Laude
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- Founding Partner
- The Health Law Partners, P.C.
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- Partner, Associate, Law Clerk
- Wachler & Associates, P.C.
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- AseraCare: Falsity and the False Claims Act
- BC Advantage
- CMS Revises Guidance Regarding the Use of Statistical Sampling for Overpayment Estimation
- BC Advantage
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Appeals Settlement Initiative
- ABA Health eSource
- CMS Revises Guidance Regarding the Use of Statistical Sampling for Overpayment Estimation
- ABA Health eSource
- District Court Rules OMHA Appeals Backlog to be Eliminated by 2022
- ABA The Health Lawyer, Vol 31, No 3
- Legal Issues Affecting Hospital Case Managers, CMSA 2020 Annual Conference Virtual Edition
- Presented with Jessica Gustafson, Esq.
- Hot Legal Issues with MA Plans, The 7th National Physician Advisor and Utilization Review Boot Camp, Washington, D.C.
- Presented alongside Jessica L. Gustafson, Esq.
- Courts Recognize Irreparable Harm to Providers Caused by Medicare Appeals Backlog, Special Edition Finally Friday
- Presented with Jessica Gustafson, Esq.
- Regulatory Update – 60 Day Recoupment, CMS/OMHA Appeal-Reduction, Front-End Compliance and Appeals, The 6th National Physician Advisor and Utilization Review Team Boot Camp, Los Angeles, CA
- Presented with Jessica Gustafson, Esq.
- Mission Creep: The Physician Advisor and Payer Contracts, The 2018 National Physician Advisor Conference/SEPAS 2018, Greenville, SC
- Presented with Elizabeth Lamkin from MHA
- Women in the Law
- Michigan Lawyers Weekly
- Top Lawyer in Healthcare Law
- d'business magazine
- Award for Tax Law
- Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Michigan State Bar # 55736
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- State Bar of Michigan, Health Care Law Section
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- American Health Lawyers Association
- Member
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- Health Care Compliance Association
- Member
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- Medical Group Management Association
- Member
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- Michigan Medical Group Management Association
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- American Bar Association
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- New York State Bar Association
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- Activities: Health Law Section
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- Michigan
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- New York
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- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
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- Health Care Law
- Billing and Reimbursement
- Compliance and HIPAA
- Compliance investigations
- Contracting
- Licensure matters
- English: Spoken, Written