Lindsey Lonergan is an associate of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Atlanta where she practices in the areas of healthcare and life sciences law and litigation. Ms. Lonergan focuses her practice on healthcare litigation including Federal and State False Claims Act litigation and OIG/DOJ investigations. In addition, Ms. Lonergan assists healthcare providers in general regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse analysis, corporate compliance programs, and HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

Prior to joining Nelson Mullins, Ms. Lonergan was a law clerk at another Atlanta law firm. She practiced in the healthcare and life sciences areas. Prior to law school, Ms. Lonergan served as a health policy analyst in the Center for Health Services Financing and Managed Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration in Rockville, Maryland. In that capacity, she provided technical assistance to federally qualified health centers and other federal grantees in the area of third party payment and managed care. She also served as the agency’s point person on the committee within the Department of Health and Human Services which was responsible for approving managed care and demonstration waivers.  She also served as a research associate at the Georgia Health Policy Center at Georgia State University where she provided strategic planning and other healthcare management services to communities and state agencies. Ms. Lonergan also was the manager of network development at WellCare of Georgia, a Medicaid managed care organization in Atlanta.

Ms. Lonergan is active in her community and has served on the boards of several healthcare-related organizations. She was a board member of the Georgia Rural Health Association from 2004 to 2009 and served as president from 2007 to 2008.  She has also served on the board of the Georgia Partnership for Caring. She currently serves as vice president of To Remember, Inc., a nonprofit organization that raises funds for Alzheimer’s research.

Ms. Lonergan earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2010. While in law school, she received the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Award and was a notes editor for the Georgia Law Review. In 2002, she earned her Masters of Health Science in Health Policy from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ms. Lonergan earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Mercer University in 2000.