The ‘robust’ team at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP acts for a lucrative client base which notably includes Blue Shield of California and Aetna Life Insurance Company. William Bernstein leads the New York-based practice with his broad expertise in health service payment issues, and Robert Belfort is known for his vast transactional capabilities, often assisting insurers with value-based arrangements. In Los Angeles, Ileana Hernandez leads the firm’s healthcare litigation group, often acting for insurers and health plans in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) cases, while healthcare litigator Gregory Pimstone focuses on FCA and insurance disputes, and Paul Carr-Rollitt regularly advises on the integration of health plans and health systems. Randi Seigel is particularly knowledgeable in matters concerning HIPAA, routinely advising clients on Medicare and Medicaid participation and billing, and Michael Kolber leverages his governmental expertise to assist with corporate transactions and matters concerning commercial managed care.
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- 'Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP has a robust team with extensive expertise in all fields of the healthcare industry. The team at Manatt is friendly, responsive and professional. No question goes unanswered and every response, project, and other additional support is thoroughly researched.'
- 'Rachel Sher and Adam Finkelstein are wonderful collaborators.'
Key clients
- Blue Shield of California
- Aetna Life Insurance Company
- Yale New Haven Health System
- New York e-Health Collaborative, Inc.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Planned Parenthood of Greater New York
Work highlights
- Represented Blue Shield of California in the second appeal in a long-running case involving a taxpayer’s attempt to force the state of California to tax health care service plans as if they were insurance companies.
- Advising Yale New Haven Health System on its acquisition of two Connecticut health systems from Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. The firm advised on structuring, negotiating and drafting definitive documents for the acquisition of the health systems.
- Assisting Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with developing a strategy for continuing to provide cancer services in the home following the end of flexibilities provided during the pandemic.
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William Bernstein