Thomas E. Boyle

Thomas E. Boyle

In the course of his health care practice, Thomas E. Boyle has regularly represented hospitals, health systems, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities for developmentally disabled people in administrative and corporate law issues.

Tom is well known for his legal work and professional contributions in the area of health care law. He is the immediate past chair of the firm's Health Care Section, which he led for the prior 15 years. He also served on the firm's Board of Directors for a number of years.

Tom has represented many clients in merger or affiliation matters, including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Conemaugh Health System and Montgomery Hospital Medical Center. He was one of only 176 attorneys throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe to be named by clients on the 2009 Client Service All-Star Team, a list compiled by BTI Consulting Group, the leading provider of strategic market research to law firms and professional services firms.

He has lectured and written extensively on a variety of legal issues in the health care field. He has spoken at meetings of the American Health Lawyers Association, National Association of Home Care, the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the Pennsylvania Homecare Association and the Dickinson Law School Forum. Tom co-wrote a chapter titled "Retroactive Versus Contemporaneous Reviews," for the book Monitoring & Auditing Practices for Effective Compliance, published by the Health Care Compliance Association. He has been quoted in the media on health care-related legal matters. For more than 10 years, Tom has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he teaches health care law and advanced fraud and abuse law.

In addition to his professional memberships, Tom has served on a variety of nonprofit boards of directors.

Formerly associated with the Los Angeles office of a national health law firm, Tom has regularly been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the health care law area. In 1994, he also received the Presidents Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Home Health Agencies for outstanding contributions to the home health field. Tom was awarded the 2001 Excellence in Healthcare Law Award by the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In 2002, he was recognized by the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative for his service as volunteer legal counsel. Since 2005, he has been consistently selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® list, ranking him among the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania lawyers. Tom was also listed in Legal Media Group's 2005 Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers.

Publications & Speeches

70 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys and Specialists Named Best Lawyers in America; Firm Ranks First in Several Categories August 5, 2009

40 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List May 26, 2009

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Bizar and Boyle Named BTI Client Service All-Stars January 20, 2009

38 Pittsburgh Attorneys Noted in Pittsburgh Business Times for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2009 List November 18, 2008

69 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys and Specialists Honored As Best Lawyers in America September 26, 2008

Forty-Five Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorneys Selected as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers May 28, 2008

Structuring Hospital-Physician Relationships to Comply with the New Stark II Regulations or "How to Avoid Going Stark Raving Mad" July 9, 2004

Affiliations

Pennsylvania Bar Association

American Health Lawyers Association

Health Care Financial Management Association

The Hospital & Healthsystem of Pennsylvania

Society of Hospital Attorneys of Western Pennsylvania

Past president, Hospital Association of Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys

Adjunct faculty member, University of Pittsburgh School of Law