Susan E. Walker

Susan Walker’s practice focuses on business representation and healthcare compliance. She has extensive experience in the development and negotiation of a broad variety of business agreements for public and private companies. She also counsels healthcare providers and suppliers on administrative and regulatory matters such as HIPAA, Stark, billing and coding, and other Medicare/Medicaid compliance issues; internal audits and investigations; government agency and other payer investigations and inquiries; and employment and other operational agreements.  

Susan also has substantial experience advising management in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship. Her experience includes drafting and negotiation of employment agreements, employee handbook and policy development, internal training presentations, and counseling employers on federal and multi-state employment law matters, including hiring, discipline, leaves, accommodations, and terminations.  

Prior to joining McAfee and Taft in 2008, Susan served as senior attorney and director of compliance for Williams Communications, a former subsidiary of Williams. She began her legal career as a judicial clerk of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals for the Honorable Charles M. Wilson of Oklahoma City and the Honorable William W. Means of Tulsa.   

In 1989, Susan was honored by the Oklahoma Bar Association as the co-recipient of the Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award for Outstanding Bar Journal Article for the article titled “Reducing Errors and Omissions in Records on Appeal,” 60 Okla. Bar Journal 1884.

• Assisted healthcare system with internal investigation and self-disclosure to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) resulting in favorable settlement in the area of Medicare fraud and abuse, civil monetary penalties laws and the federal False Claims Act.
• Assisted healthcare system with the development of compliance processes following Corporate Integrity Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Assisted medical school in litigation with academic medical center regarding Medicare/Medicaid graduate medical education payments.
• Represented national telecommunications company in the drafting and negotiation of agreements relating to the construction of multi-state telecommunications network, including right of way and licensing agreements with states, cities, railroads, mass transit authorities and private landowners; property leasing; capacity arrangements; and construction issues.
• Representation of national supplier of building materials in subcontract and supply agreements with professional builders across the United States.
• Representation of oilfield and construction services industry clients in the negotiation of service agreements.
• Assisted food industry company with vendor and distribution agreements and related issues.