Rachel Leff

• Represented one of the nation’s largest health care insurers in a Medicaid dispute related to the provision of emergency services under federal and state laws.
• Secured a favorable dismissal of federal antitrust claims for a large health care insurer.
• Briefed appeals before the Ninth Circuit and state appellate courts on behalf of health care entities.
• Represented a health plan in compelled arbitration involving complicated questions regarding the medical appropriateness of services rendered.
• Managed more than a dozen related arbitrations on behalf of a Medicare Advantage organization involving Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rate disputes.
• Arbitrated a payment dispute regarding the applicability of traditional Medicare regulations to Medicare Advantage plans.

Rachel Leff is a senior associate in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. Rachel defends a variety of health care clients including insurers, health plans, and providers in complex civil litigation, qui tam litigation, and compelled arbitration. She also regularly provides regulatory advice and guidance to health care clients.

Before joining the firm, Rachel served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beverly B. Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Hon. Leigh Martin May of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Rachel is an active member of the Atlanta Bar Association, serving on the Women in the Profession Section’s board. She also maintains an active pro bono practice, regularly representing indigent clients in landlord-tenant disputes as part of the firm’s partnership with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation.

Rachel earned a dual J.D., with honors, and M.P.H. from the Emory University School of Law and Rollins School of Public Health. While in law school, she served as an editor of the Emory Law Journal and received the Alan Rumph Memorial Scholarship for outstanding health law scholarship. Rachel also received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Emory University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Emory University (J.D., M.P.H., 2017)
• Emory University (B.A., 2014)