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Practice Area Overview
- Transactions such as mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and health care companies; forming and implementing accountable care organizations; designing and negotiating physician-hospital alignment arrangements; and joint ventures and partnerships among health care providers and with health plans.
- Financing and restructurings, including capital access, venture capital/private equity investments and partnerships, and bankruptcies.
- Defending and managing mission-critical audits and investigations of potential False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback, Stark Law or other fraud and abuse violations; advising on self-disclosures; and negotiation of settlements and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) with government agencies.
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, including general counseling, appeals, and updates on new developments.
- Advising on complex compliance issues and on compliance plans and procedures.
- Managed care contracting, litigation, and design of new reimbursement and risk-sharing models.
- Health information technology, such as contracting for electronic health records, cloud computing, software licensing, hardware acquisitions, and IT services and outsourcing.
- Privacy and security compliance, including counseling clients on HIPAA and HITECH Red Flag rules; designing compliance policies and procedures; internal compliance audits; responding to OCR investigations; monetizing health data; and managing and reporting data breaches.
- Corporate, regulatory, and strategic counseling issues, such as corporate structure, new business models, governance, licensure, certification and accreditation, and medical staff structures.
- Health care business negotiations and dispute resolution.
The client base in the health law practice is diverse and wide-ranging:
- Institutional health care providers, such as academic and community hospitals and health systems.
- Senior living and post-acute care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, community care retirement facilities, and home care and hospice facilities.
- Large physician groups, ambulatory surgery center and hospital developers, and ancillary service providers.
- Venture capital and private equity groups with health care funds and portfolio companies.
- Physician practice and health service management companies.
- Health care facility developers.
- Health insurers, reinsurers, and employer-sponsored health plans.
- Health information technology companies.
- Pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
- Medical transportation companies.
- National provider and trade associations.
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Deborah Bachrach uses her significant experience with both public- and private-sector health policy and financing to help states, providers, insurers and foundations analyze and implement the Affordable Care Act. She also counsels clients on Medicaid coverage, payment policies, delivery systems and other healthcare reforms. Before rejoining Manatt, Deborah served as Medicaid director and deputy commissioner of health for the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Health Insuran...
With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare law, Robert Belfort advises healthcare organizations on regulatory compliance and transactional matters. His clients include hospital systems, other health care providers, health insurers, managed care organizations, accountable care organizations (ACOs), pharmacy chains, IT vendors, healthcare industry investors and trade associations. Bob handles a wide variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions as well as joint ventures. ...
Bill Bernstein is the chairperson of Manatt's Board of Directors and leader of Manatt Health. Manatt Health integrates legal and consulting expertise to better serve the complex needs of the healthcare industry. Bill’s practice concentrates on providing strategic, business and legal advice to clients in the healthcare industry. He has led engagements to create new business models for the organization and payment of health services, developed plans for the broad use of health information...
Lynelle Bosworth focuses her practice on government law and policy issues and advises clients on renewable energy, environmental, transportation, finance, racing and gaming, insurance and health care related matters. Lynelle represents private and publicly owned companies and not-for-profit organizations regarding state and federal regulatory and policy matters. In addition, Lynelle provides legal counsel to health insurers, HMOs and other health care clients in regulatory compliance matters,...
Kurt Bratten is a partner in our Health Law Department. His practice includes a wide range of civil litigation, transactional work, compliance and other advisory services. Kurt’s primary focus is on counseling health care providers regarding various compliance and transactional matters such as state and federal data security and privacy requirements, managed care and other contractual matters, and state and federal regulatory requirements applicable to various provider groups. He freque...
Julia E. Cassidy represents healthcare providers including physician practices, physicians, hospitals, and healthcare systems in all aspects of corporate transactions and regulatory matters. What do you focus on? I focus my practice on transactional and regulatory compliance matters for healthcare providers. Utilizing my previous experience working for the federal government in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Informati...
Roger A. Cohen is a partner in Goodwin’s nationally recognized Life Sciences practice. He counsels healthcare services, life sciences, and healthcare IT clients concerning compliance with the myriad laws and regulations governing the delivery of healthcare services such as the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law), the False Claims Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Medicare and Medicaid rules and regulations, a...
Jennifer B. Cona is the founder and managing partner of Cona Elder Law , Long Island’s leading Elder Law and Estate Planning firm. She is among Long Island’s most accomplished women, exemplifying leadership in business and community outreach. Ms. Cona’s work involves representing, counseling and assisting seniors and their families with the preservation of assets, Medicaid planning, estate planning, wealth transfer strategies, administration of estates, estate litigation, gu...
With extensive public health insurance program and healthcare safety net experience, Melinda Dutton helps clients—including state governments, provider groups and foundations—navigate the legal, regulatory and political challenges of the Affordable Care Act and programs such as Medicaid and CHIP. With her robust experience in Medicaid, CHIP, marketplaces, delivery system transformation and payment reform, healthcare reform implementation is a significant focus of Melinda’s p...
Peter Egan represents health care industry clients in mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions as well as regulatory and tax analysis. He has considerable experience in capital raising and in advising clients with respect to fraud and abuse laws. What do you focus on? Today my practice is evenly divided between for-profit and nonprofit clients. My work on behalf of for-profit health care companies focuses on structuring transactions to comply with federal and state fra...
Eric Fader has represented healthcare providers and other corporate clients in connection with business planning and contractual issues, transactional matters, and federal and state regulatory compliance for more than 35 years. His clients include providers of the technical and professional components of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) services; telehealth, teletherapy and telepharmacy platform providers; Article 28 licensed diagnostic and treatment centers and ambulatory su...
Patrick Formato is an Executive Partner, Director of the Health Law Practice group at Abrams Fensterman, LLP. Mr. Formato represents a variety of health care providers including skilled nursing facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, imaging centers, home health care agencies, assisted living facilities, management service organizations, physicians and physician groups in connection with mergers and acquisitions, fraud and abuse, governme...
Benjamin Geizhals concentrates his practice in the counseling and representation of healthcare providers in transactional and regulatory matters. His clients include healthcare companies, doctors, dentists, other healthcare practitioners, nursing homes, medical billing and practice management companies. In addition to negotiation and documentation of mergers and acquisitions of practices, and corporate, partnership and employment relationship issues, Mr. Geizhals provides guidance on corporat...
“I am in awe of the dedication, passion and talent of our provider clients. While the landscape keeps shifting, they are steadfast in their commitment to deliver quality care. To be of greater support to my clients, my goal is to view the industry through their lens.” A litigator with extensive experience, Heidi represents hospitals, health care providers, nursing homes, residential treatment facilities, licensed professionals and insurance companies in state and federal court and...
Harold N. Iselin is Managing Shareholder of the firm's Albany office. He focuses his practice on governmental affairs and health care matters, representing diverse clients before the executive branch and state legislature. Additionally, he handles complex civil litigation matters, litigating a broad range of civil cases. Prior to joining the firm, Harold was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1984 to 1986, following which he became Assistant Counsel to the Governor of New...
Robert H. Iseman, a native of Albany, has represented both institutional and individual healthcare providers and health insurers for more than 40 years. As a partner in the Health Services Practice Group, Bob provides a full range of legal services for multi-provider healthcare systems, accountable care organizations (ACOs), hospitals, physician practice groups, health maintenance organizations and other health care providers and third-party payors. Areas of representation include corporate g...
As partner-in-charge of the McDermott New York healthcare practice, David S. Ivill has built a strong profile in advising private equity clients active in the healthcare market, both in New York and nationally. He advises PE firms such as The Riverside Company, Quad-C Management, Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company, and Deerfield Management in multi-faceted transactions. David is a highly sought-after advisor providing innovative and insightful advice on operational and management issue...
Christopher J. Kutner represents managed care organizations, physician groups, hospitals, and ancillary service providers, including laboratories, health care benefit administrators, and suppliers of medical equipment. Chris served as General Counsel as well as Compliance and Privacy Officer of a regional managed care organization in New York. In that role, he was instrumental in making referrals and working with state and federal law enforcement on investigations of individuals and entities ...
Scott Landau is a business-oriented lawyer known for his creative, results-driven approach to legal problems. A former federal prosecutor and in-house counsel for a large and prestigious academic health system, Scott is a true “five tool” attorney who advises on regulatory and compliance issues, negotiates and structures complex transactions, defends institutions and individuals in government enforcement matters, conducts sensitive internal investigations, and litigates complex co...
Kenneth R. Larywon is a senior partner and trial attorney, focusing his practice on the defense of professional liability cases and healthcare law matters. For over 30 years, Mr. Larywon has defended physicians and hospitals in claims arising out of the delivery of medical care. He has also represented healthcare professionals in disciplinary proceedings before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Department of Education. Mr. Larywon has extensive experience in counseling and de...
Tony Maida counsels health care and life sciences clients on government investigations, regulatory compliance and compliance program development. Having served as a government official, Tony has extensive experience in health care fraud and abuse and compliance issues, including the federal and state Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws and Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment rules. Tony is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance practice. Read full biography: htt...
Benjamin P. Malerba is a Partner and co-chair of the Health Services Practice Group and a Privacy, Data & Cyber Law Practice Group member. Ben counsels a cross-section of healthcare providers and facilities, including IPAs, ACOs, provider networks, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic and treatment centers, dialysis facilities, and hospitals and federally qualified health centers, on general healthcare business transactions, state licensing issues, corporate practice of medicine and fee...
Michele Masucci is the leader of the firm’s Health Care practice. She advises health care industry clients, with particular experience serving as general and special counsel to private equity firms and other investors looking to make investments in the industry. Her practice also involves providing counsel on the interplay between life sciences companies and the use of their products in a clinical setting. What do you focus on? As a former hospital in-house legal counsel, I know what ke...
Neil is Of Counsel with our Health Law practice and supervising partner of our Appeals, Constitutional Law and Casino & Gaming practices. He has represented numerous and varied clients in the health care industry and is currently General Counsel for the New York State Health Facilities Association where he focuses on issues involving complex Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues, regulatory compliance and Certificates of Need. Neil has lectured widely on legal matters affecting the h...
Peter Olberg specializes in corporate finance, securities law and merger and acquisition transactions. Particular areas of concentration are: Healthcare industry financing and transactional matters including hospital and health system acquisitions, financings and joint venture transactions, and workout and turnaround projects. Community development and real estate financing transactions, with emphasis on transactions involving federal tax credits as an investment feature. Capital formation tr...
John F. Queenan is a Partner in the Firm’s Commercial Litigation; Compliance, Investigations & White Collar; Directors & Officers Liability; and Health Services Practice Groups. He regularly appears before state and federal trial courts, appellate courts and administrative agencies (disciplinary, licensing and audit matters). John also counsels and represents clients in internal inquiries and actions relating to internal peer review processes, including evaluating, modifying, li...
Philip Rosenberg represents all types of health care providers, including hospitals, health networks, nursing homes, home health care agencies, medical transportation companies, physician practices, individual professionals, assisted living providers, alcohol and substance abuse providers as well as industry-wide trade associations. What do you focus on? My practice involves representing health care providers in a range of regulatory, transactional and litigation matters, with a particular em...
Jeffrey P. Rust is a Partner in the Firm’s Health Services and Corporate Practice Groups. He is a healthcare and corporate attorney, guiding the Firm’s clients through transactional and regulatory matters while creating an atmosphere of collaboration and trust. Jeff advises businesses and healthcare clients in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, financings, governance issues, employment matters, shareholder and partnership agreements, contract drafting and negotiations, disp...
Michael Schnipper represents clients in all types of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and joint ventures. He has a depth of experience in the health care, life sciences and technology industries. What do you focus on? Mergers and Acquisition I represent both buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of businesses in a wide range of industries including health services, life sciences, food and beverage and technology. Most recently, I...
Francis J. Serbaroli is a shareholder in the Health & FDA Business Practice of Greenberg Traurig's New York office. Frank has three decades of experience in the health care industry. His clients include health insurers and managed care plans; hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and home health agencies; clinical laboratories; renal dialysis providers; faculty practice plans; pharmaceutical companies; and medical device and equipment manufacturers. He handles a wi...
Rebecca Simone represents for-profit and nonprofit health care services providers and entities. What do you focus on ? My practice covers various areas of regulatory compliance and transactional work. Leveraging my industry knowledge and prior experience as in-house counsel for a publicly traded pharmacy benefits manager, today I mainly focus in three areas. Fraud and Abuse I regularly counsel our health care clients on navigating their practices/businesses within the confines of the federal ...
Scott Simpson represents a broad spectrum of healthcare providers, healthcare companies, and private equity companies in connection with their transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters. Having served as in-house counsel to large institutional healthcare providers, Scott has a broad healthcare practice and takes a practical approach to solving problems for his clients to most efficiently help them accomplish their goals. My focus Healthcare Transactions I’ve worked with for-profi...
Michael Taubin is a senior member of the Health Care practice group and Team Leader of the Hospital-Physician Realignment Affinity group. He represents the continuum of health care providers from hospitals to federally qualified health centers to medical groups and management companies servicing those providers. Michael is also at the forefront of private equity investment in the health care sector. What do you focus on? The primary focus of my practice is representing hospitals, federally qu...
Mark R. Ustin is a regulatory attorney and lobbyist. Mark has extensive experience assisting health and human services providers and related entities navigate the complicated statutory, regulatory, and policy landscape surrounding service delivery and payment. He assists clients with promoting and responding to legislation, regulation, and other government actions impacting their interests. He also steers clients through state processes to secure millions of dollars in government grants and o...
Karen Martino Valle is Of Counsel to our firm and focuses her practice on the organization and operation of business and not-for-profit corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as estate planning and administration, contested estate and trust matters and business succession planning. She advises clients on a wide range of business matters, including transactional matters, mergers and acquisitions, tax planning and commercial leasing and financing, with a specific fo...
Dennis Williams is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Dennis’ focus is on healthcare entities and related companies. He is regularly engaged in structural, transactional, regulatory and enforcement matters on behalf of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He advises clients on a broad range of healthcare-related issues including federal and multi-state regulatory matters, structuring, Stark, Anti-Kickback Statutes, False Claims Act,...
Carolyn Reinach Wolf is an Executive Partner in the law firm of Abrams Fensterman, LLP and Director of the Firm’s Mental Health Law practice. She is the only attorney in the country with a family-focused mental healthcare practice. Supported by a team of expert clinicians, she specializes in guiding families through the complex landscape of legal issues that impact loved ones with serious mental illness and/or substance use issues. She also represents institutions, such as major hospita...
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