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Overview

Bob is a healthcare-focused attorney who helps clients solve business problems.

After nearly 25 years advising healthcare clients, Bob knows the industry inside and out. He has represented hospitals and healthcare systems, physicians and physician groups, and nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and he previously worked on-site at a large hospital client for several years. He understands the internal dynamics of healthcare providers and medical staff members, as well as the needs of their staff and administrators.

Bob primarily serves clients as their primary outside counsel and first point of legal contact, providing day-to-day advice on a variety of regulatory compliance issues, including vendor contracting; HIPAA; medical staff credentialing and peer review; healthcare fraud and abuse, including Anti-Kickback, Stark Physician self-referral and False Claims Act analysis; employment law and personnel issues; and nursing home and assisted living facility-specific matters, including discharges, evictions and plans of correction.

Bob's goal is to provide his clients with more than just answers to their legal questions and to offer legal advice: he prides himself on serving his clients as a true business partner, evaluating their business situation from a legal perspective honed throughout his quarter century in the industry. He understands that a legal problem is inherently a business problem, and he offers advice that will not only solve the problem but help the organization successfully move forward.

Bob serves as the Office Managing Partner for Husch Blackwell's Boston office.

Industry

Services

Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America®,
    • Health Care Law, 2020-2021, 2023-2025
    • Administrative / Regulatory Law, 2023-2025
  • The Legal 500 United States
    • Healthcare: Service providers, Recommended attorney, 2023 and 2024

Education

  • J.D., Boston University School of Law
    • cum laude
  • B.S., Salem State University
    • magna cum laude

Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Professional Memberships and Certifications

  • Boston Bar Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • American Health Lawyers Association
Experience
  • Represents hospitals and medical staff members in physician disciplinary and peer review proceedings.
  • Advises hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and physician practices on general corporate, employment and regulatory matters.
  • Represents providers in disciplinary matters before various licensing agencies, including the Board of Registration in Medicine, the Board of Registration in Nursing and the Division of Professional Licensure.
  • Successfully represented providers in various discrimination actions before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
  • Successfully represented providers in various homes on eviction and trespass matters.
Outside the Office

Bob enjoys playing golf and spending free time with his wife, daughter, two sons and extended family.