Carrie Nixon, Esq.

Carrie Nixon, Esq. is the founder and Managing Partner of Nixon Gwilt Law, a law firm focused exclusively on healthcare innovation. Her firm’s clients include digital health companies, life sciences companies, and innovative healthcare providers across the spectrum of care. She is also a Special Advisor to Empactful Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in healthcare technology companies, and a member of Portfolia, an investment fund backing innovative companies founded by women.

As a longtime attorney for a variety of clients in the assisted living and long-term care industry, Carrie has on-the-ground experience with the unique challenges facing those who serve our aging population. She has successfully defended these clients against malpractice claims and deficiency citations, helping them to navigate the ever-changing regulatory and risk management landscape.

Carrie is the founder of two successful companies and co-founder of a thriving non-profit public policy organization. She takes a comprehensive, integrated approach to serving clients, combining her expertise in law, public policy, and business strategy with skills in strategic communication and negotiation.  This approach is particularly well-suited to clients navigating this new era of healthcare reform and value-based delivery/reimbursement.  Carrie advises and advocates for her clients from every angle, using legal frameworks, business acumen, and a broad network of expertise and influence to achieve target outcomes.

After receiving her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, Carrie began her legal career as an attorney at Mintz Levin, an AmLaw 250 firm. She practiced in the firm’s DC office as part of the Health Law section. Carrie later joined the DC office of Reed Smith, another AmLaw 250 firm, practicing in the litigation section with an emphasis on healthcare litigation. She is a member of the Virginia Bar and DC Bar. Prior to attending law school, Carrie worked for a senior leader in the US House of Representatives as Deputy Policy Director.  She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, daughter, and dog.

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Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq.

Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq. is Co-Founder and Partner at Nixon Gwilt Law. She provides legal, regulatory, and business guidance to health care clients, focused primarily on public and private healthcare reforms (e.g., ACA, HITECH, MACRA, bundling/accountable care), digital healthcare (including mHealth and telemedicine), integrated care, value-based care, fraud and abuse (Stark, Anti-kickback, False Claims, and CMP), and healthcare privacy/security (HIPAA, FERPA, Part 2, GDPR).  She also provides corporate and transactional services to healthcare clients, including business formation and dissolution, corporate contracting, licensing, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and reimbursement. She has a particular interest in serving growing digital healthcare/healthcare technology businesses and clients in the regulated medical cannabis industry.

After graduating from the top-ranked Health Care Law program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Rebecca served at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she worked with CMS leadership and the President’s domestic policy counsel to develop Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy, guidance, regulations and technology contracts. Since that time, she has advised hundreds of healthcare industry entrepreneurs and innovators. Her expertise includes deep knowledge of healthcare laws and regulations affecting various stakeholder groups, including large and small employers, healthcare providers, payors, and healthcare software and services vendors. She brings to her clients a functional knowledge of health care policy, regulatory compliance, and law, and is a thought leader regarding the future of public and private health reforms. 

Rebecca was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to serve on the Board of Medical Assistance Services, which oversees the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program. She is a member of The American Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association. She is also co-founder of the Virginia Cannabis Industry Association. She lives with her husband and three sons in Richmond, VA.

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