Firm: Zupancic Albin Law PC
8 N State St Ste 301 , Lake Oswego , Oregon 97034
Practice Areas: Health Care
Amber’s practice emphasizes healthcare compliance and regulatory matters, contracting, third-party liability subrogation claims, ERISA, litigation and general advice issues in health care law. Amber’s practice is also focused on professional liability defense, including representing health care providers before their licensing boards.. Prior to joining Zupancic Rathbone, Amber owned her own medical legal consulting firm, AZA Consulting, LLC, where she spent several years providing litigation support and high-exposure claims management services to large healthcare institutions and law firms. Also a Registered Nurse, Amber received her nursing degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She spent nearly seven years serving as an R.N. in the Portland area as well as in California before deciding to go to law school. Amber studied Health Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego, receiving her J.D. in 2008.. While in law school, Amber served as a law clerk for another Portland area law firm as well as for the Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice, for the State of California’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse. While with the State of California, she assisted in case preparation to the Grand Jury regarding Medi-Cal billing fraud for IUDs, resulting in an indictment.
Firm: Lane Powell PC
601 S.W. Second Avenue , Portland , Oregon 97204
Practice Areas: Health Care
Gabi Sanchez represents long term care, senior housing, home health and hospice providers in business, regulatory and litigation matters. She routinely advises long term care clients on contentious resident issues including resident transfers, compliance with resident rights, resident capacity concerns, disputes with residents and family, and collection of accounts receivable from various pay sources. She also advises facilities in insurance payment disputes and recoupment issues.. She drafts and provides training regarding admission agreements, resident handbooks and related facility documents. Additionally, she counsels clients on compliance with federal and state laws and regulations governing long term care and senior housing providers.. Gabi provides risk management advice and strategies and defends against agency actions and investigations, including defense of civil monetary penalties, fraud and abuse complaints, and imposition of conditions on provider licenses as well as revocation, denial or non-renewal of provider licenses. Further, she counsels providers with respect to HIPAA/HITECH compliance in various jurisdictions, including Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and Montana.. She has experience with the corporate practice of medicine doctrine in the nursing home context, billing and incorporating nurse practitioner services in skilled nursing facilities.. Gabi is a frequent presenter and author for the Oregon Health Care Association.
