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Patrick Formato is a senior partner at Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger, LLP.. Mr. Formato focuses his practice on health care law. He represents a variety of health care providers including skilled nursing facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, imaging centers, home health care agencies, adult homes, and physicians. He has extensive skill and expertise counseling his diverse client base in the development and implementation of corporate compliance programs. In addition, Mr. Formato advises health care providers in such matters as fraud and abuse, survey certification and enforcement, managed care agreements, employment, shareholder and partnership agreements, affiliation agreements, and buy/sell agreements. He also counsels his clients on licensure issues, the attainment of certificates of need, advance directives and treatment decision issues, real estate, and general business/corporate matters.. Recognized by his peers and clients as a knowledgeable and talented health care attorney, Mr. Formato has been asked by several health care and professional organizations to present programs on such topics as fraud and abuse, corporate compliance, reimbursement, and provider contracting. In addition to lecturing, Mr. Formato has written articles and has been published in professional and industry journals and newsletters. He has also authored several chapters in the Legal Manual for Physicians that was published by the New York State Bar Association in conjunction with the Medical Society of the State of New York, and is a contributing author of The Biggest Legal Mistakes Physicians Make and How to Avoid Them.. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Albany Law School and a B.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany. Active in legal and professional associations, Mr. Formato is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Section, and the Nassau County Bar Association's Hospital and Health Law Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Health and Hospital Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Health Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Nancy Levitin is a Partner and the Director of the Health Care Reimbursement and Recovery Practice at Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Wolf, LLP.. She counsels the firm's clients on all matters pertaining to Medicaid, guardianships, third party reimbursement, private collections, Medicare, HMOs, and estate recoveries.. Prior to joining Abrams Fensterman, Ms. Levitin was an elder law attorney with her own practice on Long Island. She is also a former staff attorney with Legal Services for the Elderly and the former New York City coordinator of the New York State Disability Advocacy Project.. Ms. Levitin is a contributing author of Elder Law and Guardianship in New York and the Legal Manual for New York Physicians. Her articles have been published in the New York Law Journal, NYSBA Elder and Special Needs Law Journal, and by trade associations including the New York State Health Facilities Association. She has written several books including Health Care Rights, Retirement Rights and America's Health Care Crisis, and has spoken on the issue of Medicaid, guardianship, and nursing home reimbursement to both bar and trade associations including Leading Age New York (formerly NYAHSA).. Ms. Levitin is designated as a New York Super Lawyer in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, a distinction earned by only five percent of the lawyers in the New York metro area. She was also included in the list of Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area for 2012 and 2013 in the New York Times Magazine.. Nancy Levitin received her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law where she was a member of the Review of Law and Social Change journal.

Lori A. La Salle is a Partner at The Greenberg, Dresevic, Iwrey, Kalmowitz & Pendleton Law Group.Ms. La Salle focuses her practice on all aspects of health care law, representing a wide array of health care clients such as hospitals, nursing homes, physician practices, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), independent practice associations (IPAs), and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). With 18 years of experience in health care law, Ms. La Salle advises health care providers on matters such as corporate compliance, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, EMTALA, human-subject research, assisted reproductive technology, mental health issues and advance directives. Additionally, she handles a variety of transactions, including IPA formation, managed care contracting, audits conducted by commercial and government, physician arrangements, procurement agreements, medical services agreements, clinical trial agreements and negotiation of electronic health records.  Additionally, she is an active member of the North Shore-LIJ Health System Institutional Review Board.. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Senior Associate General Counsel at one of the nation's largest health care systems, which is comprised of 15 hospitals, (including three world-class tertiary hospitals as well as a nationally recognized children's hospital and a psychiatric facility), a hospice, home care services, a major medical research institute, and skilled nursing facilities. She was responsible for coordinating and responding to audits and surveys by regulatory agencies such as NYSDOH, FDA, the NYS Attorney General and The Joint Commission. She has had extensive experience as the Director of Risk Management at a large New York City hospital system and handled high-exposure medical malpractice cases at a Wall Street law firm as an associate litigation attorney.. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. La Salle worked as a registered nurse in the operating room at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and was instrumental in setting up a multi-specialty physician practice in Westchester County.. Ms. La Salle received her J.D., cum laude, from St. John's University and her BSN from Adelphi University.

Joel M. Greenberg is a Partner at The Greenberg, Dresevic, Iwrey, Kalmowitz & Pendleton Law Group.Mr. Greenberg has decades of experience helping physicians, medical groups, dentists, and other health care providers deal with a host of business and legal issues that confront them in their professional lives. He has developed a solid reputation among private practitioners as a well-respected, knowledgeable attorney and a creative problem-solver. Mr. Greenberg fully understands the delicate interplay between the business needs of today's practitioner and the complex limitations that exist in the highly regulated environment in which health care professionals must practice.. Mr. Greenberg provides a wide range of services to health care professionals, including counseling them on choosing the best form of entity in which to practice; preparing their employment, partnership and shareholder agreements; and guiding them on how to structure their business arrangements so as not to violate federal and state fraud, abuse, self-referral, and professional misconduct laws. He is also particularly skilled at assisting health care professionals in the purchase, sale, and dissolution of their professional practices; helping them understand the intricacies of the malpractice insurance world; and counseling them on the myriad of other business and legal issues that confront them daily. He is well regarded as an effective negotiator and mediator, and is credentialed by the American Health Lawyers Association and the Amicus Mediation and Arbitration Group to serve as a mediator in their Alternative Dispute Resolution programs. Mr. Greenberg is a frequent lecturer on health law issues at hospitals, medical societies, colleges, and bar associations.. Mr. Greenberg is dedicated to several not-for-profit organizations, such as the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County, UJA-Federation of New York, and Temple B'nai Sholom in Rockville Centre, where he served as president from 2002 to 2004. He has been a long time member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Medical Association's Doctors Advisory Network, the Medical Group Management Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians' Network of Consultants. Mr. Greenberg served as the Managing Editor of the New York Health Law Update from 1998 through 2003 and was the Chairman of the Hospital and Health Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association from 2000 to 2002.. Mr. Greenberg received an undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College and both a Master's degree in Public Administration and a J.D. from the American University in Washington, D.C. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

Ellen L. Flowers is a partner and director of the Guardianship Law Practice at Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger, LLP.. Ms. Flowers concentrates her practice in the area of Article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law, which is the New York State guardianship statute. Ms. Flowers has been involved in all aspects of guardianship proceedings, on behalf of facilities and private individuals, petitioners and cross-petitioners, as well as alleged incapacitated persons. In addition, Ms. Flowers has been appointed by the courts in various counties as guardian, court evaluator and counsel for alleged incapacitated individuals.. Ms. Flowers is a member of the Trusts and Estates and Elder Law Sections of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations. An authority in the area of guardianship, Ms. Flowers is a frequent lecturer for the state and local bar associations and the Practicing Law Institute regarding guardianship issues. She has also lectured at the request of the Office of Court Administration to court attorneys, court examiners, law clerks, judges, and Mental Hygiene Legal Service attorneys.. Ms. Flowers is an associate editor and contributor to the Guardianship Practice in New York State, a publication of the New York State Bar Association. For her commitment to the association, the New York State Bar nominated Ms. Flowers for Sustaining Membership. She is also a member of the Surrogate Decision Making Committee formed by the State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled. Ms. Flowers is the current Co-Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Elder Law Committee. Ms. Flowers received her law degree from Hofstra University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Adelphi University cum laude.

Claudia Hinrichsen is a partner at The Greenberg, Dresevic, Iwrey, Kalmowitz & Pendleton Law Group. Claudia Hinrichsen has over two decades of experience in representing health care clients.  Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hinrichsen was a partner with Nixon Peabody, LLP where she established a diversified health law practice. Claudia Hinrichsen currently represents a cross-section of health care providers, including hospitals, physician groups, physician/hospital organizations and independent practice associations (IPAs, PHOs), diagnostic and treatment centers with respect to a broad array of issues, including fraud and abuse, corporate compliance, transactional arrangements, patient-related legal issues, and HIPAA compliance. Ms. Hinrichsen also devotes a significant amount of her time representing clients in negotiation and dispute resolution with respect to managed care contract issues and payor audits and in pursuing managed care companies for underpayments owed to health care providers.. Ms. Hinrichsen has to her credit a number of articles and client alerts on health law topics, including:. Can Solo Practioners and Small Group Practices Survive in Today's Challenging Marketplace?  Medical Society of the State of New York Magazine, May 2010, Vol. 66 No. 5.The 2009 Managed Care Reform Act: Does it Go Far Enough? New York Law Journal, November 10, 2009.  "The Impact of Electronic Health Technology Safe Harbor on Clinical Integration Initiatives and Antitrust Enforcement," Linn F. Freedman and Claudia A. Hinrichsen, October 1, 2007, HIT News.  "(Re)opening lines," hfm , Healthcare Financial Management Association's magazine, September, 2005.  "Medical Information Privacy Regulations Are Finalized, Finally," client alert, April 30, 2003.  "The Paper Monster--Corporate Compliance and the Board," Trustee , a leading, national health care industry magazine, February, 2001.  "Roadmap to Interpreting Federal Fraud Abuse Guidance Material," New York Law Journal , March 13, 2000.  "Providing Patient Dumping-Supreme Court Rules No Improper Motive Needed Under Statute," New York Law Journal , March 22, 1999.. Ms. Hinrichsen frequently lectures on health care fraud and abuse, HIPAA compliance, and managed care issues before hospitals, medical groups, and state and regional professional associations.. Ms. Hinrichsen is an adjunct Professor at Hofstra University's Zarb School of Business, lecturing on business and health law topics.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Einiger, LLP and Director of the Firm's Mental Health Law practice. Ms. Wolf holds a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, an M.S. in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.B.A. in Management from the Hofstra University School of Business. She is admitted to practice in New York State and Federal Courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, Ms. Wolf is currently an adjunct professor at Hofstra Law School, teaching Law and Psychiatry. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Wolf was a hospital administrator and Director of Hospital Risk Management. Ms. Wolf's practice concentrates in the areas of mental health and health care law, representing mental health and health care professionals, major hospital systems and community hospitals, institutional and community outpatient programs, skilled nursing facilities, higher education institutions, individuals and families. Her expertise includes mental hygiene law, including retention and treatment over objection psychiatric cases, mental health warrants, capacity determinations, informed consent and medical treatment cases, confidentiality and release of records matters, interaction with law enforcement in health care facilities and institutions of higher learning, Kendra's Law applications (Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Orders), Article 81 and 17-A guardianship proceedings, civil and criminal litigation and negotiation specific to mental health issues, consultation and advice in navigating the mental health system and legal interventions in the inpatient and outpatient treatment settings as well as mental health issues in the higher education setting. She also consults with health care institutions on issues of end of life decision making, development and ongoing functioning of ethics committees, advance directives, and institutional review boards. Ms. Wolf is a frequently invited speaker and consultant to health care and mental health organizations as well as institutions of higher education, specifically university counseling centers and administrators, and professional associations throughout the country regarding mental health law issues. Her topics include: mental health legal issues, health and risk management from a mental health care law perspective, the increasing rate of student suicides, serious mental illness on campus, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape, law enforcement, confidentiality, parental notification, documentation and the increasing liability of campus staff, administrators, mental health professionals and the institutions themselves.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.

Experienced Health Care attorney serving clients in Lake Success and surrounding areas.