Erin M. Duffy concentrates her practice on corporate healthcare transactional and regulatory matters. Ms. Duffy advises clients with respect to various healthcare transactional matters, fraud and abuse issues, self-referral, reimbursement, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, tax-exempt status, and certificate of need and licensure issues, as well as health information technology and software licensing.
Ms. Duffy is a cum laude graduate of Temple University, Beasley School of Law and a summa cum laude graduate of St. Joseph's University.
Representative Matters
· Restructured two physician-owned specialty hospitals and a physician group practice into a unified health care system.
· Obtained on behalf of Virtua Health, Inc. a decision from the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, affirming the award of a certificate of need (CON) to Virtua for it to participate in a multi-state study of the safety and efficacy of performing elective angioplasty at hospitals without cardiac surgery capability on-site.
Experience
· Duane Morris LLP
- Associate, 2004-present
Selected Publications
· Co-author, "CMS: Proposed Rule for States on Medicaid Fee-for-Service Rate-Setting Procedures," Duane Morris Alert, May 12, 2011
· Co-author, "New HIPAA and HITECH Regulations Are Coming," Duane Morris Alert, December 21, 2009
· Co-author, "How Hard Should It Be to Imprison Someone for Telling the Truth?" FDLI Update, September/October 2009
· Co-author, "Compliance with New HIPAA and FTC Health Breach Notification Rules: What Healthcare Entities and Businesses Need to Know," Duane Morris Alert, August 28, 2009
· Co-author, "The First Amendment and Off-Label Promotion: Why the Court in United States v. Caronia Got it Wrong," Health Care Law Monthly, April 2009
· Co-author, "The Debate Over Reference Checks: What to share about former employees," Modern Healthcare, June 2008