Natalie M. Brennan

How Natalie Helps Clients

Natalie represents healthcare providers in a range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. Her clients include acute care facilities, behavioral health facilities, addiction treatment centers, long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities, and urgent care centers, among others.

Natalie has prepared and obtained regulatory approvals for healthcare facilities with respect to certificates of need and changes of ownership. She has also handled state and federal administrative appeals related to enforcement and recovery actions, including nursing home survey and certification issues and the National Practitioner Data Bank. She has assisted clients with regulatory investigations conducted by state agencies and counseled clients on training their staff to comply with new or changing regulatory requirements.

Natalie’s litigation experience includes defending healthcare providers in professional liability matters in Pennsylvania and D.C. state and federal courts. She also represents healthcare providers in reimbursement disputes with commercial health insurance plans, managed care plans, and Medicare programs.

Natalie has also guided clients in understanding and navigating the evolving, complex recreational and medical cannabis regulations impacting businesses operating in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She provided practical and actionable guidance throughout the license application process, including entity formation, due diligence, preparing regulatory applications, and communicating with regulatory officials.

Natalie previously represented healthcare clients with state government relations matters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Prior to law school, she served as a policy intern for First Focus in Washington, D.C., as well as an intern on Capitol Hill with Former Congressman Rob Andrews (NJ) and Former Senator Max Baucus (MT).

What Clients Can Expect

Natalie’s strong research skills, responsiveness, and attention to detail allow her to meet her clients’ needs in various matters.

Outside the Office

Natalie lives in Philadelphia and enjoys trying restaurants on the "Best of Philly" list with her friends and family. She is a dedicated Philadelphia sports fan and tries to attend as many Phillies games as possible each summer. She is an avid traveler and is always planning her next trip.

Proof Points

• Completed an in-house secondment in the Legal Department of a Fortune 300 company that provides healthcare services at more than 400 acute care and behavioral health facilities across the U.S.
• Served as transactional counsel on a multi-disciplinary legal team in the formation of an assisted living and memory care portfolio involving more than 50 facilities in 11 states.
• Represents out-of-network healthcare providers in resolving underpayments and alleged overpayment refund demands by commercial health insurance plans, managed care plans, and Medicare programs.
• Serves as regulatory counsel to long-term care, hospice, and assisted living facilities, guiding them through a full range of regulatory and compliance matters, including licensure processes such as transfer of ownership applications, preparing  residency agreements and policies and procedures, and annual compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Represents long term care and hospital clients in guardianship proceedings involving facility residents/patients.
• Counsels behavioral healthcare providers on compliance with the Mental Health Procedures Act and HIPAA.
• Provided counsel to healthcare providers during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency related to quarantine, testing, and vaccination requirements. 
• Assisted a coalition of traumatic brain injury centers in New Jersey to pass legislation to establish minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates.
• Represents skilled nursing facilities and administrators in defense of a variety of elder abuse claims, claims of punitive damages, and robustly defended against theories of vicarious liability against affiliated corporate entities.