Joyce Gresko

• Serving as counsel to a national clinical laboratory association, advising it on a wide variety of coding, reimbursement, program integrity, CLIA compliance, and public policy issues.
• Representing a wide variety of Medicare and Medicaid providers before Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Medicare contractors.
• Assisting health care providers in complying with the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, and other federal and state health care fraud, waste, and abuse laws.
• Providing practical advice to clinical laboratories and other health care clients on structuring arrangements to comply with relevant laws and regulations and reduce risks of violating fraud and abuse laws.
• Assisting laboratories with internal compliance investigations and responding to government inquiries and investigations.
• Counseling laboratories and medical device manufacturers on coverage, coding, and payment issues relevant to emerging technologies and on regulatory issues that arise during product development and commercialization.
• Counseling health care clients on effective compliance program design and implementation.

Joyce Gresko is an attorney in Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C. office, where she is a member of the Health Care Group and Legislative & Public Policy Team. She focuses her practice on health care regulatory, legislative, and compliance matters. Her clients include clinical laboratories, medical device manufacturers, durable medical equipment suppliers, health care professional associations, and other health care entities. She assists her clients with understanding and resolving issues relating to Medicare and Medicaid coverage, coding, and payment, federal and state fraud and abuse laws, effective compliance programs, and health care quality. Joyce also leads Alston & Bird’s Government Ethics & Compliance practice, advising corporate and political committee clients on federal and state election law and lobbying requirements. She thinks about her clients’ needs holistically and strategically and brings a practical approach to problem-solving.

Joyce draws on her experience of more than a decade as a public policy advocate and campaign professional. She worked for Democratic candidates campaigning for President, governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. She also held leadership positions in advocacy organizations including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Joyce was named a 2020 Washington, D.C. Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^® for Health Care Law. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business identified Joyce in their annual rankings for Healthcare.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Maryland

Education

• Georgetown University (J.D., 2008)
• University of Michigan (B.A., 1992)

Memberships