About Us
Donna Eyster, attorney at law, and the staff at Eyster Law Offices offer help to clients in civil legal matters:
- Licensing and disciplinary actions before the North Carolina professional boards, including the North Carolina Medical Board, the Board of Dental Examiners of North Carolina, the North Carolina Board of Nursing, the North Carolina Psychology Board, the North Carolina Cosmetology Board, and the North Carolina Board of Realtors
- Appearances and appeals in administrative matters, including unemployment claims, compliance and enforcement actions
- Peer review and medical staff privileges
- Third party payor certification, Medicare/Medicaid recoupment
- Incorporations, general business law, business models and policies
- Business valuations, purchase agreements, buy-ins
- Stark, Anti-kickback and other state and federal law
- Employment matters, including contracts, physician recruitment, and termination of employment
Donna Turner Eyster, J.D.
She is the founder and principal attorney of Eyster Law Offices, P.A. Her primary areas of practice are Health Law, Employment Law and Administrative Law. Ms. Eyster’s experience includes representing health care providers in matters before the North Carolina Medical Board, the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners, and the Board of Nursing. She has also successfully defended physicians and hospitals in peer review, Medicare/Medicaid recoupment and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations.
Ms. Eyster attended Purdue University and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology/Criminology from Meredith College, where she ranked first in her class and was awarded the WINGS Outstanding Student Award. She took top honors for the Women’s Odyssey Journal and her publications include “Date Rape: Breach of Faith or Breach of Contract?” and “Children in Poverty in Wake County”.
Her Juris Doctorate was earned from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill, where she was a member of the Holderness Moot Court and served as President of her second and third year law classes. Ms. Eyster also served as a Class Representative and she was a recipient of the UNC Pro Bono award. She is active in alumni affairs and has taught a legal seminar on HIPAA issues.
Ms. Eyster is married to a physician who has practiced in the Triangle for more than twenty years, and she is the mother of three grown children.
Her memberships include:
- Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
- Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity
- The Health Law and Labor Law Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association
- The Sections of Labor and Employment Law, and Business Law, of the American Bar Association
- The North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys
- The American Health Lawyers Association
