Colleen Faddick serves as co-chair of the firm's Health Care Operations practice - a role devoted to enhancing the firm’s national practice and depth of expertise to serve our clients.
Colleen’s practice focuses on Medicare, Medicaid and other payer reimbursement and regulatory issues. Colleen understands that government and private reimbursement is unnecessarily complicated but of paramount importance for health care providers to promote clinical excellence and prosper. Colleen strives to master the regulatory nuances that impact the structure of relationships among, and the operations of, health care providers.
Colleen’s reimbursement practice focuses on:
- Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment issues:
- Billing compliance
- Potential overpayment analyses
- Cost reporting issues and administrative/federal appeals (DSH, bad debt, quality reporting payment reductions, GME/IME, etc.)
- Provider-based compliance and payment
- Medicare secondary payer and coordination of benefits issues
- Provider and supplier state licensure and appeals
- Provider and supplier survey, certification and enrollment issues, including appeals
- Fraud and abuse and self-referral law issues
Colleen works with hospitals, large physician groups, dialysis suppliers, medical device companies, pharmacies, clinical laboratories, DME companies, and other health care entities.
Education
- University of Houston Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1995)
- University of Colorado Boulder (B.A., 1989)
Bar Admission
- Colorado
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Professional Affiliations
- American Health Law Association
- American Bar Association
- Health Care Compliance Association
- Texas Bar Association
- Healthcare Financial Management Association, Colorado Chapter
Recognition
- Named to 5280 Magazine’s “Denver’s Top Lawyers” list for Health Law, 2021, 2024-2026
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® for Health Care Law, 2010-2026
- Barrister's Best People's Choice Award for "Best Health Care Lawyer," 2014
- Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers, Nightingale's Healthcare News, 2005
