Current Employment Position(s)

Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Sandra has been practicing health-care law for more than 20 years, and has extensive experience in all areas of health-care regulation. She has designed numerous compliance programs, and counsels clients on compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute, federal and state patient privacy laws and the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement requirements. Sandra earned both her degrees at George Washington University, and has extensive practical experience from having served as in-house counsel for a large teaching hospital system.

Her expertise includes:

• Regulatory compliance
• Mergers, acquisitions and strategic affiliations of health and health-related businesses
• Developing corporate compliance plans for health-care entities
• Structuring the development of entities such as imaging centers and ambulatory surgical centers
• Physician contracts and employment agreements
• Medical staff grievance, disciplinary and termination proceedings
• HIPAA privacy compliance
• Compliance with JCAHO standards
• Managed care contracting for hospitals and medical providers
• Physician hospital organization contracts
• Corporate work for health-care institutions, such as lease and supply agreements

Sandra also assists health-care clients in the ongoing education and training of their employees in compliance with applicable health-care regulations.

Her clients include hospitals, physician groups, health-care providers, medical device and equipment companies, PHOs, management service organizations, foundations, rehabilitation centers and pharmaceutical companies.

Sandra serves on the boards of Good Shepherd and the Council of Lafayette Women. Her husband is the president of Lafayette College, so she spends her spare time at various campus events.

Bar Admissions

• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1984

Education

• The George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia, 1983
  J.D.
• The George Washington University, 1980
  B.A.

Address

The Paragon Centre
Suite 300
1611 Pond Road
Allentown, PA 18104-2258

Phones

(610) 391-1800

Faxes

(610) 391-1805

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Websites

http://www.thslaw.com