Caitlin Lentz

ADVOCACY, LITIGATION, PEER REVIEW, AND REGULATORY COUNSEL FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND BUSINESSES. FORMER FEDERAL LAW CLERK. ORDER OF THE COIF.

Caitlin Lentz has been a Health Law Attorney at our law firm since 2020. Caitlin represents healthcare providers and other licensed professionals before a wide range of administrative bodies and adjudicative forums, including:

• Professional licensing boards in connection with licensing applications, disciplinary investigations, consent orders, and license defense proceedings;
• The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in investigations, Orders to Show Cause, Immediate Suspension Orders, administrative law judge hearings, and registration matters, including voluntary surrender negotiations and controlled substance compliance;
• The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) in connection with False Claims Act (FCA) matters, including defense of qui tam actions, government investigation response, and Civil Investigative Demand (CID) reply; DEA civil litigation and administrative proceedings; and voluntary self-disclosure strategy;
• The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) regarding National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) reports, including disputed report challenges and void requests;
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding Medicare enrollment revocation, preclusion and exclusion list disputes, corrective action plans (CAPs), and requests for reconsideration;
• Fair Hearing Panels and Boards of Directors in peer review proceedings, professional review actions, and clinical privileging and credentialing matters;
• Federal and state courts in connection with a broad range of disputes, including False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam defense, employment matters, business and commercial disputes, and contract claims;
• Insurers and federal payors in connection with recoupment demands, overpayment investigations, and payor audits; and
• Employers in the negotiation and resolution of employment, separation, and restrictive covenant matters, including injunction claims.

Caitlin has litigated before state and federal courts on matters including federal employment discrimination and administrative professional licensing appeals. She also advises individual providers and healthcare businesses on structuring their practices in compliance with applicable state and federal law.

Prior to joining Little Health Law, Caitlin served as a Federal Judicial Law Clerk to Honorable J. Randal Hall, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.  Caitlin graduated summa cum laude from Georgia State University College of Law—boasting the #1 health care law program in the United States as rated by U.S. News and World Report—where she was inducted as a member of the Order of the Coif, served on the Editorial Board of the Georgia State Law Review, was President of the Student Health Law Association, and was team captain for an international commercial arbitration moot team.  Caitlin’s legal experience includes working in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of General Counsel, in an academic medical center’s Legal Affairs Office, for an administrative law judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and for the U.S. Department of Justice’s internal EEO office gatekeeping discrimination complaints and overseeing investigations.  Prior to attending law school, Caitlin graduated cum laude from Florida State University and worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant.  When not advocating on behalf of health care providers and businesses, Caitlin enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and daughter, taking film photos, reading, and traveling.