Judith Waltz

Judy Waltz, a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP in San Francisco who is co-chair of its Health Care Industry Team, provides ongoing compliance counseling and Medicare/Medicaid coverage and payment advice. She has negotiated several false claims act settlements and corporate integrity agreements, and assisted clients with audits, payment suspensions, pre-pay reviews, proposed CMPs, self-disclosures, appeals of billing privileges revocations and other enrollment disputes, and other administrative enforcement actions. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Judy served as assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in San Francisco, where she primarily handled CMS (then HCFA) Medicare issues, including survey and certification disputes. She has been and is currently recognized by Chambers as an outstanding healthcare attorney for California. Ms. Waltz is Chair of AHLA's Regulatory, Accreditation, and Payment (RAP) Practice Group, and was previously a vice chair of RAP.