Rebecca Elizabeth Gwilt

Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq. is a Virginia-licensed attorney and Partner at Nixon Law Group. She provides legal, regulatory, and business guidance to health care clients, focused primarily on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reforms, health information technology (including mHealth and telehealth), accountable care, integrated care, value-based care, fraud and abuse (Stark, Anti-kickback, False Claims, and CMP), payor contracting, healthcare privacy/security (HIPAA, FERPA, Part 2). She also provides corporate and transactional services to healthcare clients, including business formation and dissolution, employment contracts and disputes, licensing, board and general compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and reimbursement. She has a particular interest in serving clients in the mental and behavioral health and substance abuse industry.

After graduating from the top-ranked Health Care Law program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Rebecca served at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she worked with CMS leadership and the President’s domestic policy counsel to develop Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy, guidance, regulations and technology contracts. Her expertise includes deep knowledge of ACA laws and regulations affecting various stakeholder groups, including large and small employers, healthcare providers, payors and healthcare software and services vendors. She brings to her clients a functional knowledge of health care policy, regulatory compliance, and law is a thought leader regarding the future of public and private health reforms.

Rebecca also serves the Boards of two local nonprofits—the Beacon Tree Foundation and the Powhatan Free Clinic, whose missions are to increase access to affordable health care services for under-served populations. She volunteers for the Richmond Bar Association and is a member of The American Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. She lives with her husband and two sons in Chesterfield, VA.