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.
• Counseling health care clients on effective compliance program design and implementation.
• Assisting a private laboratory with a compliance investigation into its COVID-19 testing practices.
• Assisting a multinational manufacturer with setting up its own COVID-19 testing facilities for employees.
• Advising one of the largest rapid COVID-19 testing providers in establishing and administering specimen collection sites.
• Counseling laboratories and medical device manufacturers on emerging molecular pathology coding and payment issues, and on regulatory issues that arise during product development.
• 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.

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. She thinks about her clients’ needs wholistically 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.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Maryland

Education

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

Memberships