Practice Areas
A partner in Goodwin’s Healthcare practice, Nicole Aiken-Shaban is an experienced healthcare regulatory attorney who collaborates with clients to solve their operational and business challenges, expand their platforms, and close deals. She advises a national client base that includes healthcare providers and suppliers, private equity funds and other investors in the healthcare industry, commercial and managed Medicare and Medicaid organizations, and life sciences companies. Clients rely on her responsiveness, sound judgment, thoughtful analyses, and practical solutions.
Nicole regularly counsels clients on federal and state fraud and abuse laws, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and beneficiary inducement prohibitions, and assists in structuring complex transactions and contractual arrangements to comply with those laws. She also advises on reimbursement challenges, developing and navigating value-based care models and payment programs, and healthcare licensing and corporate practice of medicine matters. She leverages her regulatory experience to help clients prevent and defend against government investigations, audits, and False Claims Act matters, and to conduct internal compliance assessments.
Nicole serves as treasurer and secretary on the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Business Law Section and is a former co-chair of its Healthcare Law Committee. She previously served on the Board of Directors for The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
Personal
JD Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law (summa cum laude; Secretary, Moot Court Board; Income Chair, Public Interest Grants Board) 2010; BA University of New Mexico (summa cum laude) 2005