Elizabeth (Ellie) Tucker is dedicated to providing effective, efficient and innovative legal health care solutions. Her prior training and work experience as a social worker informs her practice and effective advocacy for clients when representing them and advising them on regulatory and operational issues. Ellie is known by both clients and colleagues alike for figuring out solutions.

Ellie focuses her practice on operational and regulatory health care law. She represents an array of health care provider types, including most commonly senior housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, home care, home health, hospice and other post-acute care providers. Ellie also has experience advising many other health care provider types such as hospitals, ambulance services, pharmacies, behavioral health providers and physician practices.

For any type of health care client, Ellie has the experience and insight to advising on day-to-day operational matters as well as representing them in litigation matters or at state and federal levels against regulatory agencies in the administrative appeal settings. In particular, with her work in the post-acute care space, Ellie has significant experience appealing certification surveys for health care providers, taking them from informal dispute resolution through hearing and appeal. Her experience straddling operational matters and advocating for clients in regulatory enforcement and litigation matters provides a unique insight into how to structure operational matters and advise on potential enforcement risks by state and federal enforcement agencies—or private plaintiffs. 

Some of the legal matters Ellie regularly advises clients on include, but are not limited to:

• State Health Care Facility Licensure
• Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and certification
• Scope of practice rules for practitioners, including supervision arrangements for mid-level practitioners
• Contract drafting, negotiation and disputes
• Fair Housing Act
• Billing and reimbursement
• Anti-kickback and Stark Laws compliance