Jenna focuses solely on healthcare law, and assists medical practices across the country on reimbursement and regulatory matters. She helps clients reduce exposure, develop corrective action plans, and successfully appeal Medicare, Medicaid, and major private payer recoupment claims. Another primary focus of her practice is handling CMS enrollment issues, payment suspensions and revocation/exclusion appeals.
Jenna’s legal career began as an in-house defense counsel for a prominent nationwide insurer. She then served for three years as a prosecutor for the City of Chicago where she handled over 100 cases at a time from filing through resolution. This experience has been beneficial in her current work of representing her clients in Administrative Law Judge hearings to appeal Medicare overpayments and in supporting her colleagues on healthcare litigation matters.
Jenna works closely with the health care team on audit defense, payer appeals, credentialing matters and litigation support. Her clients include private physician practices, multidisciplinary practices, specialty practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, hospice agencies, laboratories and medical billing companies. Jenna excels at helping clients find cost-effective ways to navigate complicated payor appeals, including RAC audits, UPIC audits, TPE audits and termination and exclusion proceedings.
Jenna is a highly organized, and prides herself on her meticulous case preparation and interpersonal and writing skills. She truly cares about her clients and uses her experience to think outside the box and find creative ways to help her clients solve oftentimes complex issues with their payors.
Not Admitted in South Carolina or North Carolina.
University of Kansas School of Law, J.D., cum laude
University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Government and Public Policy, cum laude
Arizona
Illinois
Overview
Jenna focuses solely on healthcare law, and assists medical practices across the country on reimbursement and regulatory matters. She helps clients reduce exposure, develop corrective action plans, and successfully appeal Medicare, Medicaid, and major private payer recoupment claims. Another primary focus of her practice is handling CMS enrollment issues, payment suspensions and revocation/exclusion appeals.
Jenna’s legal career began as an in-house defense counsel for a prominent nationwide insurer. She then served for three years as a prosecutor for the City of Chicago where she handled over 100 cases at a time from filing through resolution. This experience has been beneficial in her current work of representing her clients in Administrative Law Judge hearings to appeal Medicare overpayments and in supporting her colleagues on healthcare litigation matters.
Jenna works closely with the health care team on audit defense, payer appeals, credentialing matters and litigation support. Her clients include private physician practices, multidisciplinary practices, specialty practices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, hospice agencies, laboratories and medical billing companies. Jenna excels at helping clients find cost-effective ways to navigate complicated payor appeals, including RAC audits, UPIC audits, TPE audits and termination and exclusion proceedings.
Jenna is a highly organized, and prides herself on her meticulous case preparation and interpersonal and writing skills. She truly cares about her clients and uses her experience to think outside the box and find creative ways to help her clients solve oftentimes complex issues with their payors.
Not Admitted in South Carolina or North Carolina.
Speaking & Writing
- To Combat COVID-19 Surge, CMS Expands the “Hospitals Without Walls” Program by Launching the “Acute Hospital Care At Home” Initiative, as well as Implementing Increased Flexibility for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
December 7, 2020 - Health Care Reimbursement
September 21, 2020 - Proactive Coding Compliance: The Best Way to Avoid the CMS Administrative Appeal Process
September 11, 2020 - VIDEO: Health Care Coding, Compliance and Credentialing- a Critical Aspect of All Medical Practices
August 17, 2020 - The Pros and Cons of Federal COVID-19 Liability Protections
July 29, 2020 - Jenna Godlewski Discusses Fraud Accusations in Telehealth
July 22, 2020 - Staying Ahead of Changes to the Bad Debt Rule
June 18, 2020
JD Supra "Health Care Reimbursement," September 21, 2020.
JD Supra "Proactive Coding Compliance: The Best Way to Avoid the CMS Administrative Appeal Process," September 11, 2020.
JD Supra "The Pros and Cons of Federal COVID-19 Liability Protections," July 29, 2020.
JD Supra "Jenna Godlewski Discusses Fraud Accusations in Telehealth," July 22, 2020.
JD Supra "Staying Ahead of Changes to the Bad Debt Rule," June 18, 2020.
"The UPIC Evolution" co-authored with Stephen Bittinger, Compliance Today, November 2017.
Outside Nexsen Pruet
Jenna loves nothing more than spending time with her family that includes her husband and three amazing children. Jenna has a passion for coaching her children’s volleyball, basketball and softball teams.