Band 1
Provided by Judith A Waltz
Corporate, Health Care
Judy Waltz, a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP in San Francisco who is co-chair of its Health Care Practice Group, provides ongoing compliance counseling and Medicare/Medicaid coverage and payment advice. She has been and is currently recognized by Chambers as an outstanding healthcare attorney for California (Band 1).
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 revocations and other enrollment disputes, CLIA compliance, 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 litigation, bankruptcy actions, survey and certification disputes. She held collateral appointments as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern and Eastern Districts of California.
Ms. Waltz is the current chair of the ABA Health Law Section’s Payment and Reimbursement Interest Group (2024-2027) and is a former Chair and Vice Chair of AHLA’s Regulatory, Accreditation, and Payment (RAP) Practice Group (2018-2021), and vice chair of RAP (2012-2018).
For a full biography and list of articles and presentations, please see www.foley.com/judith-a-waltz. Ms. Waltz can be reached at [email protected] or by phone at 415.438.6412.
Heath Law Section Leader of the American Bar Association for the 2024-2025 Bar Year
Served as chair and vice chair of the Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA).
Past chair of the Women’s Network Steering Committee at Foley.
Member of the Health Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section, the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, and the Health Care Compliance Association.
Board Member of Visitors for Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
Health Care & Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Providers of Health Care
Indiana University Bloomington
B.A., J.D., and M.P.A.
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
She is highly available, a great communicator and excellent at listening to my needs. Helps me get the answers I need to get to a good result.
She is highly available, a great communicator and excellent at listening to my needs. Helps me get the answers I need to get to a good result.