Mariaeva Batlle is an attorney in Frier Levitt’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Departments, with a focus on regulatory and transactional law and advising clients on relationships with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). She counsels pharmacies, diagnostic laboratories, practitioners, manufacturers, and healthcare technology and management companies on regulatory and transactional matters related to telehealth, data privacy and security, corporate transactions, AI healthcare integration, and fraud, waste, and abuse compliance.
Mariaeva advises clients on federal and state healthcare regulatory frameworks, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Healthcare Fraud Statute, and applicable state analogues. She also counsels clients on professional fee splitting regulations, the corporate practice of licensed professions, the formation of management services organizations (MSOs), due diligence for telehealth models, licensing and prescribing limitations, and trademark filings. Additionally, Mariaeva provides guidance on data privacy and security compliance, including HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, HITECH, and FTC regulations governing personal health records not protected by HIPAA.
As a life sciences attorney, Mariaeva focuses on counseling several different types of pharmacy providers on their relationships with PBMs. Her practice centers on PBM audits, network suspensions and terminations, recoupment of discrepant claims, credentialing and re-credentialing, and fraud, waste, and abuse investigations.
Mariaeva earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she gained hands-on experience through Seton Hall Law’s Health Justice Clinic. Before joining Frier Levitt, she served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Evelyn Padin of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Mariaeva is fluent in Spanish.
