Alicia M. Pearson

Alicia Pearson is a Business and Transactions associate who focuses her practice on health care industry matters. Alicia practiced as a Registered Nurse across various health care settings for over 10 years before becoming a health care lawyer. She draws on her nursing experience to provide nuanced insights to clients on health care-related matters. Alicia is still licensed as a Registered Nurse within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, Alicia was an associate at a Chambers-ranked law firm, where she assisted clients within the home health and senior living space with both regulatory and transactional matters.  Alicia also has experience assisting health care provider clients with a variety of regulatory-related matters, including but not limited to Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, coverage, and reimbursement issues; regulatory filings; review board appeals; accreditation-related matters; facility and professional licensure; state health care transaction review laws; Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) compliance; Graduate Medical Education (GME)-related matters, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-related matters; and general compliance matters..

While attending law school, Alicia held positions as a summer associate and a judicial extern. As a summer associate at a mid-sized, full-service law firm, Alicia served as the designated Secondment Associate for a prestigious health care client. As a judicial extern, Alicia served the Honorable David R. Strawbridge, U.S.M.J., for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.