Matthew provides strategic counsel and practical advice, regulatory insight, corporate guidance, and creative solutions to all manner of healthcare-related clients – helping grow their businesses and bring valuable offerings to the market in this most highly regulated of industries.
The trusted counsel to a client base touching different corners of the healthcare field, Matthew advises on all aspects of corporate formation, governance, transactions, regulatory compliance, and licensure, as well as all day-to-day operational matters.
As Chair of the firm’s Healthcare Group, Matthew draws upon significant relevant experience prior to joining the firm, including his time as a partner in the leading national healthcare practice of an Am Law 50 law firm and as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel to a publicly-traded biotech company. He serves a vast array of clients, including hospitals, health systems, academic health centers, individual providers, ambulatory surgery centers, and diagnostic and treatment centers, as well as digital health companies, investors, and myriad other related organizations.
For his professional accomplishments, Matthew has been named a top practitioner by Chambers USA and Thomson Reuters (Super Lawyers – Healthcare – New York). He is a well-recognized industry thought leader on healthcare regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters, having authored dozens of articles for a variety of publications including Health Law360 and the National Law Review – the latter for which he bylined a long running guest column highlighting healthcare technology developments.
Honors
- Chambers USA – Healthcare New York
- Thomson Reuters – Super Lawyers – Healthcare – New York
- Advise health care providers on the planning, structuring, and negotiation of health care transactions (mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures), business arrangements, and strategic partnerships, including transactions involving physician practices, licensed facilities (e.g., ASCs and D&TCs), IPAs, ACOs, MSOs, hospitals, long-term care facilities and agencies (e.g., nursing homes and home health companies), and venture capital and private equity investors.
- Advise investors in health care businesses on compliance with the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM), licensure and other regulatory requirements, including strategies for structuring such businesses and operations in a compliant manner.
- Counsel clients on health regulatory compliance matters, including self-referral (Stark Law), Anti-Kickback, fee-splitting, HIPAA and licensure.
- Counsel for-profit and not-for-profit Boards on strategy, governance, best practices, risk management, and fiduciary duties and obligations.
- Provide guidance to companies and shareholders/investors on partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, and operating agreements, and counsel clients on resolving business disputes among investors and management.
- Advise on the implementation of HIPAA compliance programs, OCR investigations, HIPAA Breach responses, and various cyber security and interoperability issues.
- Guiding providers and healthcare technology companies in telehealth agreements and license agreements within the digital health sector.
- Top 5 Legal Issues in Digital Health to Watch for in 2022– (February 01, 2022)
- Health Equity Remains a Priority for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2022– (November 12, 2021)
- CMS’ Proposal to Expand Telehealth Coverage– (July 27, 2021)
- Telehealth Investment and Telehealth Utilization: Let’s Look at the Numbers– (July 19, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Delaware Expands Access to Telehealth– (July 12, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Oregon Looks to Provide Parity for Telehealth– (June 15, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Illinois Moves to Expand Telehealth Coverage– (June 08, 2021)
- MITRE Corporation Outlines a Proposal for a Digital Health Revolution in New Report– (June 04, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Arizona (Part 2) Arizona Is All-in On Telehealth– (May 25, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Montana– (May 04, 2021)
- FCC Announces Application Filing Window for Round Two of COVID-19 Telehealth Program– (April 19, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Utah– (March 16, 2021)
- OIG Warns Telehealth Industry: “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”– (March 10, 2021)
- What Virginia’s New Privacy Law Means for Organizations in the Healthcare Industry– (March 08, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: West Virginia– (March 05, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Washington– (March 04, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Oregon– (March 04, 2021)
- The Honeymoon Phase Is Over: OIG to Audit COVID-19 Part B Telehealth Services– (February 12, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: Texas– (February 08, 2021)
- “State” of Telehealth Series: New Hampshire– (February 03, 2021)
- The Other Shoe Drops: OIG To Audit COVID-19 Telehealth Home Health Services– (February 01, 2021)
- “State” of Telehealth Series: New York– (February 01, 2021)
- Re-Introducing the Protecting Access to Post-Covid-19 Telehealth Act– (January 28, 2021)
- “State” of Teleheath Series: Arizona– (January 26, 2021)
- FCC Announces Initial Connected Connected Care Pilot Program Projects For Telehealth– (January 26, 2021)
- The “State” of Telehealth: New Jersey– (January 23, 2021)
- The Permanency for Audio-Only Telehealth Act: A Matter of Healthcare Equity?– (December 31, 2020)
- Permanent Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Services– (December 07, 2020)
- HHS Releases Rural Action Plan– (October 03, 2020)
- It’s Official: Telehealth Benefits Have Been Expanded For Medicare Beneficiaries– (August 10, 2020)
- Reopening Challenges: FAQs On Preparing For Additional Waves Of COVID-19– (July 23, 2020)
- The Post COVID-19 World: Continued Focus on Relaxing Telehealth Barriers– (July 02, 2020)
- Introducing the HEALTH ACT: Expanding Medicare Reimbursement– (June 18, 2020)
- HHS Further Relaxes HIPAA Regulations Governing Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency– (April 14, 2020)
- FCC Now Accepting COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications– (April 14, 2020)
- Telehealth and Federal and State Government Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic– (March 17, 2020)
- Legislation Re-Introduced to Expand Access to Telehealth Under Medicare– (November 07, 2019)
- California Expands Medicaid Tele-Health Policy– (October 07, 2019)
- OIG to Audit Provision of Behavioral Health Services Through Tele-Health Under Medicaid Managed Care– (October 04, 2019)
- The VA Mission Act: Expanding Access to the VA Telemedicine System– (June 21, 2019)
- HHS Reduced Penalties for HIPAA Violations; Distinguishes Based on Culpability– (May 16, 2019)
- HHS Announces First HIPAA Breach Settlement of 2019; 300,000 Patients Affected– (May 13, 2019)
- CMS Expands Telehealth Benefits under Medicare Advantage– (April 10, 2019)
- HIPAA Breach Results in a $4,500,000 Class Action Settlement– (February 20, 2019)
- Company’s Vendor Suffers Breach, No Business Associate Agreement, $500K OCR Settlement– (December 20, 2018)
- States Taking Actions Against Health IT Companies Over Data Breaches– (December 18, 2018)
- Federal Regulatory Developments Brewing in Telehealth– (July 18, 2018)
- Texas Hospital Order to Pay $4.3M for Failure to Implement its HIPAA Security Policies– (PJuly 05, 2018)
- The VA MISSION Act: Enhancing Healthcare for Veterans– (June 12, 2018)
