About Reesa N.
Reesa N. Benkoff earned her law degree from Boston University School of Law after completing an undergraduate business degree at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She combined legal training with business education early in her career, a background that informs the practical advice she gives to health care clients.
Following law school, Benkoff became licensed to practice in Michigan and in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Her work has centered on legal issues that arise at the intersection of medicine, business and regulation, and she has built a practice that spans compliance, transactional matters, and regulatory counseling.
Her professional activity extends beyond client work. She holds memberships in the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Michigan’s Health Care Law Section and the Oakland County Bar Association. She has also taken on sustained leadership roles in those organizations. From 2019 through 2024 she chaired the Substantive Law Committee of the State Bar of Michigan’s Health Care Law Section. She chaired the Medical/Legal Subcommittee from 2016 to 2019 and served as its vice chair the year before that. Earlier she was vice chair of the Payors Subcommittee from 2014 to 2015.
At the national level she has served in multiple editorial and program roles for the American Bar Association. Since 2016 she has been vice chair of The Health Lawyer Editorial Board and she previously served as vice chair of the ABA’s Publication Book and Editorial Board from 2016 to 2018. Her involvement with the ABA also included vice chair positions for the Business & Transactions Interest Group from 2013 to 2016 and for the Physician Legal Issues Conference from 2013 to 2014.
Benkoff has been active in the American Health Lawyers Association as well. She coordinated the Fraud & Abuse Practice Group in 2016–2017 and participated in the Leadership Development Program for the Physician Organizations Practice Group in 2015–2016. Those roles reflect ongoing engagement with enforcement, Stark and anti-kickback matters, and organizational governance issues that affect physician groups and other health entities.
She practices at Benkoff Health Law, PLLC, advising hospitals, physician organizations and other health care providers on regulatory compliance, transactional work and dispute avoidance. Her current practice focuses on health care regulatory and transactional matters.
