Ramy Fayed

Ramy Fayed is a Partner in the Health Care practice group in Dentons US' Washington, DC office. He has been recognised by Super Lawyers, Nightingale's Healthcare News and Best Lawyers as one of the leading health care lawyers in the US. His practice focuses on Health Care Law.

Ramy represents a broad range of health care organisations, including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centres and a variety of other health care providers and companies of all sizes and maturity. He advises clients on compliance with fraud and abuse laws, Medicare and Medicaid compliance and reimbursement issues, and data privacy and security matters.

He performs in-depth health care regulatory and privacy and security due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, strategises about structuring complex arrangements, ensures that physician arrangements, products, services and new technology align with the health care regulatory and privacy and security legal landscape, and identifies areas for strategic growth, such as artificial intelligence.

Ramy helps clients navigate requirements surrounding the physician self-referral law (Stark Law), the anti-kickback statute, beneficiary inducement civil monetary penalties, "provider-based" department requirements and a host of other Medicare rules. He provides strategic advice and assists clients in conducting internal reviews to evaluate the existence of potential overpayments, and to make appropriate self-disclosures and voluntary refunds to federal payers. He supports clients on their health care data strategies, including complying with HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification requirements, and counsels clients on clinical research-related issues, including IRB policies and procedures and informed consent processes.

He also represents clients in connection with investigations and audits undertaken by federal and state regulatory and enforcement agencies and in administrative litigation, including handling appeals before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board and administrative law judges, and helping clients navigate and respond to data breaches and other privacy and security incidents.

He holds a JD, magna cum laude, from The George Washington University Law School (2001), an MA in Medical Sciences from the School of Medicine, Boston University (1998) and a BS in Biology from Boston College (1996). He is recognised by Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law (2021–2026), by The Legal 500 for Healthcare Service Providers (2025), and was named a Rising Star in the Expert Guides to the Leading US Lawyers, Healthcare (2014). He serves as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law and Guest Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Care Compliance Association, and the American Bar Association and District of Columbia Bar Association Health Law Sections.