Meet Your Expert
For more than 21 years, she has maintained a health care litigation practice, concentrating on Medicare and Medicaid litigation, health care regulatory compliance, administrative law and regulatory law.
Knicole understands the intricate Medicare and Medicaid payment system, the unique business of healthcare providers, the overlay of federal and state Medicare and Medicaid rules and regulations, and actions of state agencies that affect the way health care entities operate.
Knicole has tried over 2,000 administrative cases in over 30 states and has appeared before multiple states’ medical boards. She has successfully obtained federal injunctions in numerous states, which allowed her health care provider clients to remain in business and receive reimbursements despite the state or federal laws allegations of health care fraud, abhorrent billings, and data mining.
Across the country, Knicole frequently lectures on healthcare law, the impact of the Affordable Care Act and regulatory compliance for providers. She is a weekly panelist on RACMonitor, as a national expert on Medicare and Medicaid audits.
Prior to joining Practus, Knicole was a Partner with Potomac Law Group, Co-Managing Partner with Gordon & Rees, and served as North Carolina Assistant Attorney General in the Health and Public Assistance Section where she prosecuted providers of Medicaid fraud and gained a thorough understanding of the Medicaid system that informs her practice today. Knicole graduated with her JD magna cum laude from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
Training Sessions by Knicole C. Emanuel
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Just one innocent mistake during the Medicaid provider enrollment or credentialing process can leave you lost in mounds of government red tape - unable to get paid for the services your practice provides. Errors on an initial application can mean that you’ll be sent back to the beginning and have to restart the entire enrollment process again. Make a mistake […]
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Your chances of being flagged for a CMS Medicaid audit is greater than ever. Why? Because the pandemic-driven audit hold that was in place last year has expired, and the Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP) and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit are moving into high gear. Due to the audit holds last year, Medicaid recoupments are seriously down, and they’re trying to […]
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