Erica practices with the firm’s healthcare department and advises her clients on a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, the fraud and abuse laws, state corporate practice of medicine doctrines, and state licensure laws.
Erica also handles transactional matters for her clients, representing healthcare providers in joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. Her clients include ambulatory surgical centers, dental practices, dialysis centers, hospitals, and physician groups, among others.
Erica received her law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2017, where she graduated cum laude. As a law student, Erica was the Advanced Directives Editor for the Annals of Health Law and a Senior Editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. She was a Beazley Institute Health Law Fellow where she competed on Loyola’s Health Law Transactional Competition Team and earned a Health Law Certificate.
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Loyola University Chicago School of LawJD
cum laude
2017 -
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBAPsychology
Dean’s List
2013
Member, Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys
- Illinois
- Author, Private Equity in Healthcare – An Updated Review of Selected Niche Investment Areas, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 7, 2023
- Author, End of COVID-19 Emergency: Legal Implications for Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 1, 2023
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Provider Relief Fund Late Reporting Requests for Extenuating Circumstances Accepted April 11-22, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 20, 2023
- Author, CMS Streamlines Stark Law Self-Disclosures, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 8, 2023
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: May 18 Deadline to Request Late Reporting for Provider Relief Fund Period 2, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 16, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Provider Relief Fund Late Reporting Requests for Extenuating Circumstances Accepted April 11-22, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 7, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Looming Deadlines to Report Provider Relief Fund Period 2 Payments and COVID-19 Vaccine Claims, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 28, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: HHS to Reopen Provider Relief Fund Period 1 Reporting Dec. 13–20, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 10, 2021
- Author, CMS Accelerated and Advance Payment Recoupment Begins, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 6, 2021
- Author, First Provider Relief Fund Indictment, The FCA Insider, February 26, 2021
- Author, Fraud and Abuse Rules Part III: New Value-Based Arrangement Protections, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 20, 2021
- Author, HHS Delays Provider Relief Fund Reporting — Five Updates for Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 19, 2021
- Author, "New Spending Package Includes Provider Relief Fund Reporting Changes and More Funding," Corporate Counsel Business Journal, January 5, 2021
- Author, New Spending Package Includes Provider Relief Fund Reporting Changes and More Funding, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 4, 2021
- Author, Health Department Updates Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 3, 2020
- Author, CMS Updates Medicare Accelerated and Advance Program Repayment Guidance and Start Date, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 28, 2020
- Author, Provider Relief Fund: New $20 Billion Available Starting Oct. 5 and Reporting Guidance Issued, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 2, 2020
- Author, Illinois Executive Order Provides Discretion to Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 9, 2020
- Author, CARES Act Healthcare Provider Relief Fund Update: New Distribution and Extended Deadlines, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 10, 2020
- Author, Provider Relief Fund: Medicaid/CHIP and Dental Deadline Extended, More Funds for Hard-Hit Hospitals, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 20, 2020
- Author, New Provider Relief Fund Payments for Medicaid/CHIP Providers and Safety-Net/COVID-19 Hotspot Hospitals, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 11, 2020
- Author, June 3 Deadline for Provider Relief Fund and HHS Guidance for Acquisitions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 22, 2020
- Author, HHS Extends Attestation Deadline and Issues Further Guidance for Provider Relief Fund, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 7, 2020
- Author, HHS Targets $22 Billion for Hard-Hit COVID-19 Hospitals and Rural Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 6, 2020
- Author, CMS Issues Explanatory Guidance on Stark Law Blanket Waivers During COVID-19 Pandemic, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 30, 2020
- Author, CMS Suspends Advance Payments and Re-evaluates Accelerated Payments, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 28, 2020
- Author, HHS Opens $20 Billion General Distribution CARES Act Application — Key Points for Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 27, 2020
- Author, HHS Announces Release of Remaining $70 Billion of CARES Act Funds to Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 23, 2020
- Author, Payment Attestation Portal for the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund Now Open, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 17, 2020
- Author, HHS Updates Eligibility for 30 Billion CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 14, 2020
- Author, HHS Begins Funding $30 Billion to Medicare Providers – Attestations to Be Required, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 10, 2020
- Author, OIG Follows the Stark Law COVID-19 Waivers for Anti-Kickback Statute, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 7, 2020
- Author, Stark Law Waivers Issued During COVID-19 Pandemic, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 3, 2020
- Author, Payment Advances for Medicare Providers, Suppliers May Ease Liquidity Issues – Six Key Points, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 30, 2020
- Author, Key Concerns for Nursing Homes Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 23, 2020
- Author, HHS to Ease Fraud and Abuse Rules Part 5: CMS Proposes Value-Based Arrangement Stark Exceptions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 22, 2019
- Author, Potential Impact of Pelosi’s Bill on the Pharmaceutical Industry, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 16, 2019