ANN ARBOR – Susan Patton, a leading health industry attorney, has joined Butzel Long law firm as a senior attorney based in the firm’s Ann Arbor office.
She has 29 years of experience in the health industry, including
22 years of experience representing nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, and serving as in-house counsel for the third largest Catholic health care system in the United States, where she represented numerous tax exempt subsidiaries in transactions and joint ventures with taxable for profit entities.
Patton?s expertise in health care transactions includes joint ventures and JOAs; facility and licensed professionals licensing, OIG and CMS regulatory compliance; health information technology, Internet based business models; distressed hospitals and hospital closures; electronic medical records; e-prescribing; virtual ICUs; teleradiology; international offshore outsourcing; mergers, acquisitions and sales of health providers and suppliers; governance; compensation; employment, independent contractor and management contracts; real estate; group purchasing and supply chain; nonprofit corporations; hospital based physician relationships; physician organizations; PHOs, IPAs; Catholic health systems; tax exempt status and intermediate sanctions.
In addition, she has experience with Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and third party payor payment and reimbursement; fraud and abuse and Stark; shared services and leased employees, EMTALA and on-call coverage; ASCs; intellectual property and technology; imaging centers, IDTFs; HIPAA; medical device manufacturers, IRBs, RAC and MAC audits and appeals; corporate and securities issues; buy sell agreements; operating agreements; JCAHO accreditation; consortiums; retiree health VEBAs; bylaws; strategic planning; medical staff matters and credentialing new technologies.
Patton graduated from Wayne State University Law School
(J.D., cum laude, 1979) where she was Articles Editor of the Wayne Law Review. In 1976, she earned her M.A. from Wayne State University (1976) and graduated from the University of Michigan (B.G.S., cum laude, 1973).
Patton is an active member of the State Bar of Michigan and is a current member and former Chair of the Health Care Law Section. She served
as Editor of Newsletter; Editor of Record Retention Manual and Consent Manual; Collaborated with ICLE on first co-sponsored Health Care Law Institute; and served as a Council Member. She also is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section, and served on the Nonprofit Corporation Subcommittee. Her memberships also include the National Health Lawyers Association and the Michigan Society of Health Care Attorneys, where she formerly served on the Board of Directors. Ms. Patton has contributed guest articles to numerous publications. Patton is a resident of Ann Arbor.
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