Amanda Sparks Abbott

Amanda Abbott is a San Diego attorney specializing in healthcare and life sciences regulatory compliance and business transactions. Amanda draws upon her prior experiences as a nurse, litigator, and in-house corporate counsel to provide uniquely pragmatic yet comprehensive legal services and strategic guidance to clients.

Prior to joining Vanst Law as a partner, Amanda served as a key advisor in the establishment and growth of research and clinical operations at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine. Its rapid growth achieved record-setting whole genome sequencing and recognition as a leader in translational medicine research and implementation.

Amanda applies her understanding of healthcare issues to enable bench-to-bedside relationships that are vital to innovation in healthcare. She brings to every transactional matter a deep knowledge of health information and data privacy and security, nonprofit tax-exempt transactions, healthcare reimbursement, clinical trials, fraud and abuse (false claims, anti-kickback, Stark), intellectual property and technology licensing, integrated delivery networks, managed care, and government regulatory mechanisms.

Areas of expertise:
Providing legal advice and handling day-to-day and as well as transformative business transactions
Shared space and services arrangements
Provider based status compliance
Telemedicine and telehealth policies and agreements
Precision medicine programs
Legal issues in shifting payment paradigms
Stark, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act compliance
EHR (eelectronic health records) licensing
Supply chain and GPO (group purchasing organization) purchasing
Patient and provider e-portal terms and conditions development
Management and technology services agreements
Intellectual property and data ownership, licensing and protection
Professional and administrative services agreements
Nonprofit corporate governance
EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act); transfer agreements
Sunshine Act compliance
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)
Formation of and participation in integrated delivery systems
Ambulance, air ambulance, medical transport contracting
CCS (California Children’s Services) contracting (services, pilot programs, regional collaboration agreements)
Commercial payer contracting
Provider reimbursement
340B drug pricing program
Federal and state health care program enrollment and conditions of payment and CoPs (conditions of participation)
Billing compliance and repayments