Overview

Attorney Ashley Creech advises health care organizations and entrepreneurs on complex regulatory and transactional matters.

Clients rely on Ashley for her comprehensive understanding of the intersection of corporate transactions, clinical operations, business strategy, and health care law. Ashley represents a diverse range of health care clients—including ambulatory surgery centers, health systems, hospitals, health insurers, large physician group practices, medical spas, and health care investors—on health care due diligence, regulatory risks, and health care transactions.

Ashley also assists clients with a wide range of regulatory matters, including those involving medical spas and businesses operating in the aesthetic and cosmetic medicine space, as well as Certificate of Need (CON) requirements, the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, EMTALA compliance, and mental health parity laws. She regularly counsels health care organizations on navigating state and federal regulations and managing regulatory risk across the full lifecycle of health care operations.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Ashley interned with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, where she reviewed health care mergers and acquisitions, and with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, where she analyzed corporate integrity agreements and settlement agreements. Before going to law school, Ashley worked as a registered nurse and clinical manager overseeing service operations, financial management, and quality assurance programs across a variety of health care settings—experience that gave her an insider’s understanding of health care delivery, regulatory compliance, and risk management that meaningfully informs her legal counsel.

What Ashley Delivers for Clients

  • An Insider’s Perspective: Ashley’s nursing and clinical background gives her firsthand knowledge of health care operations and real-world clinical realities.
  • Strategic Business Acumen: Her comprehensive legal strategies ensure that every transactional and regulatory decision supports her clients’ long-term growth and success.
  • Holistic Risk Management: Ashley proactively identifies and mitigates potential regulatory and compliance risks, safeguarding your operations from every angle.

Focus Areas

Experience

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  • Assisted a major global medical technology company in the acquisition of a robotic microscope company.
  • Represented a nationally recognized, physician-owned practice specializing in reproductive medicine in an IVF researcher acquisition.
  • Represented a plastic surgery and dermatology billing support service client in the sale of the company.
  • Provided regulatory and compliance counsel to a medical spa in connection with the sale of the practice.
  • Advised and assisted a gynecology and wellness practice on business and regulatory permitting for operations in Washington, D.C.
  • Represented a national medical spa in successfully obtaining a CON in Washington, D.C.
  • Represented a client in successfully obtaining a CON for five primary care offices located in Washington, D.C.
  • Defended a national staff company that provides clinicians to hospitals and post-acute facilities against allegations of violation of the False Claims Act.
  • Guided a health plan in the development of a compliance program in conformity with state and federal mental health parity laws.

Credentials

Education

  • University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (J.D.)
    • Business Concentration
    • Health Law Concentration
    • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
    • William P. Cunningham Award
  • University of North Carolina at Pembroke (B.S.N.)

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Maryland

Professional & Community Involvement

  • American Bar Association
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Heart of Passion – Board of Directors (2025 to Present)

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