News & Press Releases

This feature article takes an in-depth look at how law firms and their leadership teams are taking a look at their approach to origination credit. Mintz Managing Member Bob Bodian is prominently featured throughout the article. In the piece, Bob discusses creating goals for a new approach – fostering teamwork, putting clients first and affording younger attorneys the ability to take more ownership – and launching the new system back in 2015.

This feature story discusses how Medicaid’s unique federal-state structure is a significant challenge to recovering inappropriate payments to doctors by the states. This challenging process has led to approximately $2 billion in overpayments for the past eight years not being recovered. Mintz’s Ellyn Sternfield, a former director of the Oregon Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, provides commentary in the piece.

Mintz Member and former General Counsel of Partners HealthCare, is quoted throughout this feature article discussing when it is the right time for a hospital and/or health system to bring in outside counsel.

This feature article looks at the potential increased scrutiny hospitals may face from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in terms of anticompetitive behavior. Rob Kidwell, an antitrust Member with Mintz, is among the industry sources providing commentary.