Joan W. Feldman

Joan W. Feldman is Chair of the Health Law Practice Group. She has devoted her legal career to representing health care providers in connection with health care, business, regulatory and administrative law matters. Joan is general and special counsel to acute, general, specialty, academic medical center and chronic disease hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice providers, behavioral health providers, durable medical equipment providers, clinical laboratories, organ procurement organizations, physician certification boards, assisted living service agencies and continuing care retirement communities. She regularly advises her clients on corporate governance, best practices, corporate and business issues and combinations, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, physician/hospital strategic alliances; state and federal regulatory issues, including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, fraud, abuse, and Stark and Anti-kickback issues; corporate compliance, governmental audits and investigations (e.g., state and federal recovery audit contractors); privacy and HIPAA issues, state and federal investigations relating to privacy breaches; information technology and software licensing; medical staff and credentialing matters; medical ethics and end-of-life issues; quality of care regulatory matters, developing quality improvement and assessment programs; and clinical research matters, including regulatory compliance and medical ethics. Joan’s valuable experience as a registered nurse and faculty member at the University of Maine School of Nursing provides her with operational insights and practical approaches to challenging compliance and quality issues that distinguishes her advice and adds immeasurable value when counseling her clients on legal issues. Joan is a frequent speaker, educator and prolific writer on a variety of subjects of interest to health care providers, including compliance, medical ethics, regulatory and reimbursement matters and health care reform, including accountable care organizations, medical homes and other innovative strategies focused on cost containment and quality improvement.