JAMES A. ROBERTSON is a Partner and the Chair of the nationally recognized Healthcare Practice at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter. Prior to joining McElroy Deutsch, Jim was the Managing Partner of Kalison, McBride, Jackson & Robertson, one of New Jersey’s premier health healthcare boutique law firms, which merged its healthcare practice into McElroy Deutsch in July 2011. Mr. Robertson represents a broad array of health care providers, including large hospital systems, organized delivery systems, physician practice groups, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. He advises his healthcare clients on the full spectrum of healthcare issues, including healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures transactions, Fraud and Abuse, Stark Law, licensure, certificate of need, and CHAPA reviews. You may know him especially for his niche practice area in Medicare, Medicaid, cost report settlement and DSH reimbursement matters. This is the fourth year in a row that Jim has spoken at the NJHFMA Regulatory and Reimbursement Update Forum.
NEIL M. SULLIVAN joined McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP as a Partner in 2014, specializing in healthcare and insurance law. Over the course of his career Mr. Sullivan has served as Assistant Commissioner at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI), in-house counsel at New Jersey’s largest health insurer, General Counsel for a community hospital, and Director of Group Contracts for New Jersey’s largest life insurer. He ranked among the top 15 in NJBIZ’s annual Power 50 in Healthcare in each of 2012, 2013 and 2014.
As Assistant Commissioner at the DOBI from 2010-2014 , Mr. Sullivan oversaw the Office of Life and Health during a period of fundamental change in both sectors: implementation of the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; emergence of alternative financial models for health care delivery, including CO-OPs, Accountable Care Organizations, and health system equity ownership or participation in insurance organizations; and transition to electronic health records and implementation of ICD-10.
GLENN P. PRIVES is an associate in the Health Care Practice at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP. He represents a range of health care clients, including hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, health care management companies and investment funds specializing in health care. He has experience in the areas of hospital-physician alignment, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, alliances, joint ventures, numerous types of contractual agreements and health care information technology. He also has counseled clients on a variety of health care regulatory matters, including Stark, Anti-Kickback, state self-referral laws, HIPAA, health care reform, Medicare and Medicaid issues, coverage and overpayment issues, compliance, regulatory and due diligence reviews, licensure and certification issues.