Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

See the Big Picture.
The health industry is a complex system, and reimbursement is the lifeblood. Reduction in payments from governmental and commercial payors affects providers, suppliers, manufacturers, and all others across the health care continuum.

Regulatory approval and accreditation is the heart of the system. For many, delay in licensure and other regulatory approvals can threaten financing and corporate viability. Accreditation of residency training programs is essential to the vitality of academic medical centers and teaching hospitals.

Restructuring is a fact of life in this dynamic system. Our clients are frequently involved in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic affiliations to achieve and maintain viability and a leadership position in the marketplace.
Mintz Levin’s health law attorneys work on the most complicated and sensitive legal matters, from managing government investigations with potential civil, administrative, and criminal liability, to structuring multi-million dollar corporate transactions. Our cross-disciplinary approach equips Mintz Levin attorneys to solve problems throughout the industry, enabling our clients to focus on what counts: providing cost-effective, quality patient care.

Practice Broadly, Focus Strategically

• Accreditation, Licensing and Certification
   
• Antitrust
   
• Clinical Trials, FDA and Research
   
• Contracting
   
• Corporate Governance
   
• Due Diligence
   
• Fraud and Abuse
   
• Government Investigations/Litigation
   
• Graduate Medical Education Program Accreditation
   
• Health Care Compliance/Regulatory Counseling
   
• Health Care Reform
   
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Financings and Joint Ventures
   
• Privacy and Security/HIPAA Compliance
   
• Reimbursement
   
• Tax-Exempt Organization Issues

Our health law attorneys represent for-profit and nonprofit companies that provide health care or who service the health industry. Our clients include:

• Ambulatory Service Providers
   
• Assisted Living/Life Care Communities
   
• Behavioral Health Companies
   
• Biotech Manufacturers/Suppliers/ Distributors
   
• DME Manufacturers/ Suppliers/Distributors
   
• Diagnostics Companies
   
• Dialysis Providers
   
• Emergency Transportation Services
   
• Health Care IT Suppliers/Distributors
   
• Home Health Agencies
   
• Hospice Providers
   
• Health Systems/Academic Medical Centers/Hospitals
   
• Laboratories
   
• Lenders/Investors/Underwriters
   
• Long Term Care/SNF Facilities
   
• Managed Care Organizations
   
• Medical Device Manufacturers/ Suppliers/Distributors
   
• Medicare/Medicaid Managed Care Plans
   
• Part D Plans
   
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturers/ Suppliers/Distributors
   
• Pharmacies
   
• Pharmacy Benefit Managers
   
• Physicians/Physician Practices/Allied Health Providers
   
• Retail Clinics
   
• Tissue Banks

Minimize Operating Pain.
Health industry executives and governing boards rely on Mintz Levin to help address the complex operational issues on their leadership agendas. We deliver an A-team of lawyers and government relations professionals with a track record of making the system work. Many of our attorneys have served as in-house counsel or have held government positions. Using diverse perspectives and skills, we help health industry clients to address and solve regulatory, business, financial, transactional, and operational problems and challenges every day.
 

Mintz Levin’s Health Law Practice has received national recognition for its accomplishments, particularly in the legal and health industry media. Our dedicated team consists of over 30 full-time health law attorneys. One of the most respected health care industry publications, Modern Healthcare, cites Mintz Levin among the top 10 largest health care law firms in the U.S., and the American Health Lawyers Association granted Mintz Levin an Award of Excellence based on the size of its Health Law Practice. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 recognized Mintz Levin’s Health Law Practice in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., as well as Nationwide for the East Coast, and lists six Mintz Levin Health Law attorneys as leaders in their field. Over the past several years, Nightingale’s Healthcare News has named Mintz Levin Health Law attorneys to its lists of Outstanding Healthcare Fraud and Compliance Lawyers, Outstanding Hospital Lawyers, Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers, Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers, and Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyers. Five of our Health Law attorneys were selected for the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Massachusetts and New York Super Lawyers also identified five Mintz Levin attorneys as leading health law lawyers.

Stay Fiscally Fit.
Faced with inadequate reimbursement, aging facilities, and patient demand for new technologies and treatments, many hospitals and other health care providers are hard-pressed to find enough capital to meet their future needs. Funding sources for capital projects are changing, and funds from traditional sources (such as tax-exempt and taxable bonds, equity, debt financing, philanthropy, and equipment leases) have dropped sharply. Despite these trends, capital is available—even to health care entities with challenging or distressed financial profiles.

Mintz Levin lawyers help health industry clients determine what is possible and create strategies to make it happen. For some, we structure joint ventures and strategic alliances with payors, management companies, and providers. For emerging health industry companies, we help find venture capital and other private and institutional financing, arrange corporate research and marketing partnerships, and secure technology and intellectual property licensing that leverage additional sources of available capital. Our clients rely on us to expand their business and the reach of the services they provide.
Since 2006, Mintz Levin has completed over 130 health industry mergers and acquisitions totaling over $45 billion; venture capital deals totaling over $1 billion; 51 strategic collaborations totaling $1.6 million; and 168 other financings totaling nearly $8 billion.

Give Back to the Community.
Mintz Levin encourages all attorneys to provide pro bono legal services to the community, and believes that an organized, firm-sponsored program is critical to enabling its lawyers to undertake such efforts. The legal services furnished through Mintz Levin’s pro bono program are wide-ranging, and clients include needy individuals as well as groups who are fighting poverty, homelessness, and domestic violence; seeking civil rights, economic justice, and access to health care; and addressing other acute social needs. As a signatory to the Pro Bono Institute's Pro Bono ChallengeSM, Mintz Levin has committed to dedicating 3% of all billable hours on pro bono matters.

For example, Mintz Levin has provided legal and strategic advice to The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center since its inception. Founded in 1995 by Kenneth B. Schwartz, a highly respected attorney in Mintz Levin’s Health Law Practice, shortly before his death from lung cancer at age 40, The Schwartz Center is dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers in the changing health care system. Mintz Levin’s service to The Schwartz Center has included board participation, the development of its bylaws, advice on trademark issues, assistance with contract matters, other strategic advice, and government relations representation. Over the past year alone, more than 40 Mintz Levin attorneys have devoted over 1500 hours to this pro bono representation.

Our attorneys and staff may come from many ethnic, religious, and social backgrounds, but when it comes to pursuing success for our clients and ourselves, we are cut from the same cloth. We know overcoming challenges, both legal and professional, takes dedication and support from our colleagues.

Founded in 1933, when it was almost impossible for a diverse attorney to thrive at one of Boston’s larger law offices, Mintz Levin was established by two young Jewish attorneys who knew how it felt to be excluded. The firm’s commitment to diversity is a natural outgrowth of their struggle to carve out a more inclusive professional path -- a history that helps explain our dedication to celebrating the differences that create a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere in which to practice law.

We strive to support diverse attorneys and have formal and informal mentoring programs to help diverse attorneys succeed. Mintz Levin’s Professional Development programs support the professional growth of our attorneys, with specific programs for women and minority attorneys.

Mintz Levin is a demonstrated leader in promoting the rights of women, people of color, and the LGBT community. Our core values spell out our goal of creating a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere in which to practice law or work in the legal profession.

Quick Facts

• Women lead numerous practices at Mintz Levin.
• Nearly half of the attorneys at the firm are women.
• Percentages of women Members and Associates at the firm exceed the NALP average for firms of a similar size.
• In 1993 — a decade before it was mandated by the legislature — the firm was one of the first to offer health benefits for same-sex domestic partners.
• In 1986, two Mintz Levin partners were instrumental in creating the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG), a nonprofit organization founded by a consortium of major Boston firms committed to improving the hiring and retention of lawyers of color.

Rankings & Recognitions

• Gold Standard Certification from Women in Law Empowerment Forum
• Top Ten Family Friendly Firms by the Yale Law Women
• Top 20 Law Firms in the US for diversity efforts by Vault 
• Score of 100% on Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 
• Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality by the Human Rights Campaign
• Corporate Courage Award from the City of Boston 

There was a partner here with a large number of higher education clients. It was great to be able to raise my hand and say, ‘I’m interested in learning that,’ and then have the firm say, ‘We won’t look outside for this capability; we’ll see how you develop.

— Tyrone Thomas, Associate

Diversity Initiatives

• The Diversity Committee reflects the firm’s diversity and meets monthly to formulate and adopt policies that impact recruiting, retention, mentoring, and work allocation.
• Richard Mintz Scholarship is awarded to a first-year law student of color and provides $10,000 toward the student’s second year of tuition, a paid summer position at the firm between the student’s first and second years, and an ongoing work relationship with the firm throughout the student’s second year.
• The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Group has been meeting regularly since 2003 and provides opportunities for mutual support, sharing concerns, and informal mentoring for the firm’s LGBT attorneys and staff members.
• MIATTY is an affinity group for minority attorneys and senior professionals that seeks to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the firm. MIATTY has been meeting on a quarterly basis for over a decade.
• The Women’s Initiative sponsors numerous professional, networking, and social events aimed at supporting and enriching the lives of our female attorneys.
• The Sponsor & Retention Program helps Associates of color build long-term careers at Mintz Levin by pairing them with a sponsoring Member, helping them develop a network within the firm, and helping them build supportive, collegial relationships with their

Diversity Partnerships

We participate in and support numerous diversity-related efforts throughout the country aimed at recruiting and supporting the professional development of diverse attorneys and promoting diversity.

In addition to hosting an annual interview workshop in Boston for law students of color, the firm participates in job fairs for students of color in Boston and DC, and the National LGBT Law Association’s Lavender Law Job Fair. We also participate in the Boston Lawyers Group 1L Summer Diversity Clerkship Program.

Partners in Diversity Nationwide

·         American Intellectual Property Association Education Foundation

·         Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting Law (ALPFA)

·         Athena San Diego

·         Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth (BAGLY)

·         The Boston Lawyers Group (BLG)

·         Boston University Law School Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA)

·         The Commonwealth Compact

·         DC Minority Attorney Networking Series

·         Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association

·         Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)

·         Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project (GMDVP)

·         Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)

·         Just the Beginning Foundation (JTBF)

·         Korean American Bar Association of San Diego

·         Lambda Legal

·         Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association

·         Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)

·         National Black Law Students Association

·         The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Bar Association

·         New York Asian Women’s Center

·         New York Minority Attorney Networking Series

·         La Raza Lawyers of San Diego

·         South Asian Bar Association (SABA)

·         Women Lawyers Alliance

Richard Mintz Diversity Scholarship

The Richard Mintz Diversity Scholarship is designed to help make our workplace and profession more diverse. Named in memory of Richard Mintz, a partner in the firm for 57 years and the son of one of the firm’s original members, the scholarship provides the recipient with a paid summer position in the firm’s Boston office, $10,000 toward the second year of law school, and a continuing working relationship with our firm  throughout that year.¿¿

"My father and his partners took their responsibility very seriously -- to build a firm that was inclusive and progressive in terms of its approach to diversity," said Richard Mintz.

Diversity Committee

The Diversity Committee’s mission is to understand and value diversity in our firm and clients and to integrate diversity into our vision, culture, business, mission, policies, and practices.

We weave our mission into the firm’s strategic planning and direction. We are responsible for leading the firm’s ongoing diversity efforts. In addition to focusing on expanding opportunities at the firm for attorneys and staff who are of color, women, or part of the LGBT community, we are committed to promoting diversity in the legal profession and throughout our communities.