Steph Lewko

Steph Lewko is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Healthcare Risk Management & Advisory practice. Ms. Lewko is a healthcare and life sciences analytics specialist with expertise in compliance, regulatory data analysis, fraud monitoring and litigation support. She applies advanced analytics and industry knowledge to complex business and investigative matters, including compliance and governance oversight and a broad range of litigation.

Ms. Lewko advises healthcare and life sciences organizations on compliance assessments, transparency, regulatory data analysis and pharmaceutical pricing, as well as auditing and monitoring, fraud monitoring, off-label investigations and data privacy. She has served as a quantum expert in multiple complex litigation matters and as a member of Independent Review Organizations (“IROs”) operating under corporate integrity agreements. Ms. Lewko’s work focuses on advanced data analytics, including predictive modeling, dashboard development and data management. She has designed and implemented applications and databases across multiple platforms to track and report organizational and operational data.

Before joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Lewko was a Managing Director in Ankura’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Disputes & Economics practice. Earlier in her career, she held prior consulting roles at Navigant and Guidehouse. Throughout her consulting career, Ms. Lewko has developed extensive expertise in pharmaceutical and medical device compliance and strategy, including audits, risk assessments, Open Payments reporting and adverse event reporting. She has specialized in payor litigation matters, most recently involving COVID-related billing disputes. She also supports fraud analytics and damages assessments through current procedural terminology (“CPT”) coding analysis, identification of anomalous billing patterns, overcharge quantification and damages modeling for counterclaims, regulatory inquiries and large-scale data productions.

Ms. Lewko earned a B.B.A. in finance and computer science from the College of William & Mary. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (“CFE”) and is currently pursuing her Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional certification.