Newman, Dinetia

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Dinetia Newman is a partner in the Health Law Practice Group and the Business Section in the Jackson Office. Her practice involves representation of providers and suppliers including hospitals and health systems, physicians, ambulatory surgical centers and other Medicare Part B suppliers on a variety of operational and transactional matters involving Medicare and Medicaid payment, Anti-kickback Act, Stark Law, EMTALA, HIPAA privacy and security compliance, state law licensure and Certificate of Need issues, contractual negotiations between and among providers and suppliers, establishing and representing managed care organizations and counseling clients through investigations by federal and state agencies.

In addition to practicing law, Dinetia taught as adjunct professor in health law during the 1994 and 1997 summer sessions at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Areas of Practice

• Health Care
• HIPAA Compliance
• Corporate

West Practice Categories

Government Agencies & Programs, Health Care

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 1989

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Lee County Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Mississippi State Bar (Member)
• American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) (Current Board of Directors member and Chair of AHLA's Practice Groups)
• American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) (Former Chair of AHLA's Quality Council)
• AHLA's Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Substantive Law Committee, 2001 - 2004 (Chairman)
• Mississippi Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) (President)
• The Mississippi Bar, 1993 - 1994 (Health Law Section - Chair)

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Young Lawyer of Mississippi by the Young Lawyers' Division of the Mississippi Bar

Classes and Seminars

• Health Law, University of Mississippi School of Law
• Health Law, University of Mississippi School of Law
• Primer on Researching Medicare and Medicaid Issues: Sources and Techniques, American Health Lawyers Association, Medicare & Medicaid Institute
• Case Study - Payment Issues, American Health Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting, June 27, 2006 - June 28, 2006
• Primer on Researching Medicare and Medicaid Issues: Breakfast Briefing on New Stark Rules in IPPS Final Rule - Mississippi and Louisiana
• Primer on Researching Medicare and Medicaid Issues: Sources and Techniques, American Health Lawyers Association, Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues
• Stark Reality - What We Know and What is Coming Down the Pike, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Tri-State Annual Institute
• Sources and Techniques, American Health Lawyers Association, Medicare & Medicaid Institute
• Planning for Pandemonium: Preparing for Pandemic Flu and Other Disasters - Part II - Readiness for Public Emergencies, American Health Lawyers Association
• Stark II, Phase II - Mississippi Chapter of HFMA
• JCAHO's Accreditation Process: A Discussion of the New Standards, Legal Issues Involved and the Conundrum of Governing Body, Medical Staff and Provider Administration Relationships, American Health Lawyers Association
• Provisions in Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003: Part B, Administrative Reform and Related Provisions, American Health Lawyers Association

Past Employment Positions

• University of Mississippi School of Law, Adjunct Professor
• University of Mississippi School of Law, Adjunct Professor

Education

• University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Mississippi, 1989
  J.D.
  Honors: summa cum laude
  Law Journal: Mississippi Law Journal, Research Editor, 1987 - 1988
  Law Journal: Mississippi Law Journal, Symposium Editor, 1988 - 1989
• Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1965
  B.A.
  Major: History

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi

Published Works

• Note, Constitutional Law - Preemption - ERISA Preempted Mississippi Law of Bad Faith as Applied to Employee Benefit Plan Since Such State Law Did Not Regulate Insurance 57 Miss. L.J. 217, 1987
• Comment, Mississippi's Statutes of Limitations and Choice of Law Analysis: A Borrowed Conflict 57 Miss. L.J. 739, 1987

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401 East Capitol Street
Suite 200
Jackson, MS 39201-2608

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