Field of Practice

Health law

Practice Overview

Ms. Zitzman represents health care providers and managed care organizations, focusing on regulatory compliance and interactions with governmental agencies and contractors.  Her practice includes analysis of federal fraud and abuse law, laws applicable to nonprofit and tax-exempt entities, Medicare/TennCare requirements, and legal issues involving  information privacy and security.  Ms. Zitzman also advises health care entities on operational issues, including internal investigations and licensing, reimbursement and contracting matters. 

Publications and Presentations

Attorney-Client Privilege, East Tennessee Institute of Internal Auditors (November 2006)

Contract Review by Compliance Officers: Identifying Key Health Care Issues, The Pastin Report, Vol. 5, No. 2 (February 2002)
(co-authored with William C. Myers, Jr.)

How Protracted Death Row Confinement Gives Rise to an Eighth amendment Claim of Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 291 (1997)

Community Involvement

Board of Directors, Girls on the Run of Greater Knoxville

• State Bar of Tennessee, 1998
• State Bar of Texas, 1997

• Knoxville Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association
• American Health Lawyers Association

J.D., Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1997 

• Managing Editor and Contributor, Washington & Lee Law Review

B.A., Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1991

Related Experience

Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia  (1997-1998)