Attorney

F. Lisa Murtha, Esq.

F. Lisa Murtha, Esq.
Catherine A. Marriott
F. Lisa Murtha, Esq.

Attorney

F. Lisa Murtha, Esq.

PRACTICE AREAS

EDUCATION

Dickinson School of Law: JD, 1986

Penn State University: BA, with Honors (Speech Communications and Business Administration), 1983

About

Professional Background

F. Lisa Murtha, Esq. (Lisa) is a health care regulatory and clinical research attorney with over 40 years of experience working with academic medical centers, universities, hospitals and hospital systems, physician practices, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, device manufacturers and CROs/SMOs on a wide variety of regulatory compliance matters. Some of her areas of expertise include:

  • Medicare Billing
  • Health Care Fraud and Abuse Matters including expertise with the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the Affordable Care Act, the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act and many others
  • Clinical Research Billing
  • Human Subject Protections
  • Scientific Misconduct
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Complex investigations into allegations of non-compliance
  • FDA licensing and other regulatory matters
  • Federal Grant Compliance
  • Healthcare Compliance Program Design, Support, and Effectiveness Assessment

Ms. Murtha is a frequent speaker at industry conferences for the Health Care Compliance Association and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the American Health Lawyers Association, PRIM&R, and MAGI. Ms. Murtha has written numerous articles and book chapters which have been published by industry journals and other publishing houses. Please see the list of Ms. Murtha’s published work below.

Publications:

Recent Articles:

Health Law Handbook 2019 Edition

Thompson Reuters

The Regulation and Management of Clinical Research

BNA

Conflicts of Interest and the Physician Patient Sunshine Provision

HCCA Compliance Today

Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to Clinical Trials

HCPro

Research Compliance Primer

Aspen Publishers

Time and Effort Reporting – Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside

The Journal of Health Care Compliance

Research Compliance Monitoring Book (Auditing and Monitoring Research Organizations)

The Journal of Health Care Compliance

Time and Effort Reporting – the Next Compliance Frontier

BNA, Inc

Patient Safety Meets Corporate Compliance

HCPro

Clinical Trial Billing

BNA

Developing a Research Monitoring Plan

Today’s Corporate Compliance

Developing a HIPAA Monitoring Plan

Today’s Corporate Compliance

Human Subjects Protections

The Journal of Healthcare Compliance

A Children’s Hospital Perspective on Compliance

Today’s Corporate Compliance

Research Centers Enter New Era of Progress Balanced with Compliance: Sheltering Research Programs from Regulatory Policy Enforcement Swings

The Journal of Healthcare Compliance

Government Expands Its Focus To Include Quality Of Patient Care: How To Conduct A Patient Care Compliance Risk Assessment

The Journal of Healthcare Compliance

Conducting a HIPAA Privacy Risk Assessment—Is It Too Early?

Today’s Corporate Compliance

Effectiveness Measurement Of Compliance Programs, Do You Really Need To Know?

Today’s Corporate Compliance

The Compliance Code of Conduct and Beyond

Corporate Compliance Officer-Opus Publications

Serial Billers’ and Underutilizers: Trends in Healthcare, Compliance

Corporate Compliance Officer-Opus Publications

The Wisdom of Corporate Compliance Programs

Pennsylvania Bar Institute

Corporate Compliance Programs, A Company’s Best Offense to a Qui Tam Action

Business Development Associates

The Role of the Insurer in an Integrated Delivery System

Widener Law Symposium Journal

Compliance Training, The Pennsylvania Blue Shield Cascading Training Approach

Pennsylvania Bar Institute