Sanja advises health care providers and organizations on the regulatory, transactional and operational issues that shape their businesses and patient care.
Overview
Sanja counsels hospitals, health systems, physician practices and other health care organizations on a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters, including HIPAA, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the federal Civil Monetary Penalty Law and related state laws and requirements. She advises clients on physician and hospital arrangements, telemedicine, fee-splitting, corporate practice of medicine, pharmacy operations and other issues arising in the day-to-day delivery of health care.
Sanja also assists health care clients with transactions and agreements including acquisitions and dispositions, physician employment agreements, professional services agreements, medical director agreements and other contractual matters. She represents private equity lenders in health care transactions and assists clients with due diligence, purchase and credit agreement review, and other transactional matters.
Her experience also extends to minor litigation matters, third-party payor reimbursement disputes and provider-related proceedings. Sanja represents physicians and other health care providers in Medicare and Medicaid overpayment matters, including administrative appeals, and has successfully represented health care providers before state licensing boards. She also advises hospitals and health systems on medical staff bylaws, medical staff disciplinary and credentialing issues. Sanja has represented health care systems and organizations with guardianships, discharge, and other day-to-day patient operational challenges.
Before becoming an attorney, Sanja worked as a certified nuclear medicine technologist, where she prepared and administered radiopharmaceuticals in compliance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements. Her experience working within a highly regulated clinical environment gives her a practical understanding of the operational considerations health care organizations face.
Experience
Successfully represented health care providers in multimillion-dollar CMS overpayment disputes, handling matters from the initial demand through the administrative appeals process and proceedings before the Qualified Independent Contractor and Administrative Law Judge.
Successfully co-represented the medical staffs of large health systems and individual hospitals in fair hearing proceedings involving the revocation of physicians' medical staff membership and clinical privileges, including proceedings through final appeal and preparation of National Practitioner Data Bank reports.
Represented a large health system and long-term acute care hospital in guardianship and conservatorship proceedings in Missouri and Illinois, as well as matters involving obtaining court orders for electroconvulsive therapy.
Represented a large health system in operational and legal matters involving involuntary mental health detentions and advising on issues arising during day-to-day patient care.
News & Insights
News
Speaking Engagements
"Anatomy of an Employment Agreement," Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, 2018-present
"Anatomy of an Employment Agreement," Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 2026-present
Recognitions
Recognitions
Named to the Best Lawyers in America© "Ones to Watch" list, Health Care Law, 2025-2026
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
St. Louis Health Lawyers Association, Member
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Young Lawyers Division, Member (2016-2018)
- Bridging the Gap Committee, Co-Chair, 2017-2018
Edgewater Condominium Association
- Board Member, 2022-present
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Education
St. Louis University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2014
- Academic Excellence Award for Contracts II
St. Louis University, B.A. and B.S., Nuclear Medicine Technology and Psychology, magna cum laude, 2004
