With 25 years’ experience, I concentrate my practice in the areas of health care regulation and litigation, commercial litigation, and employment law. In my health care and litigation practice, I provide regulatory and general counseling to non-profit and for-profit health care institutions, human service providers and to individual licensed practitioners. My clients span the health care continuum, including hospitals, community health centers, nursing homes, assisted living, supportive housing and human service providers, as well as individual providers. Working collaboratively with organizational leadership, I address issues of governance, employment and compliance matters, survey and certification matters, licensing, credentialing and privileging disputes, peer review, HIPAA and privacy concerns, and labor and employment issues. I offer my clients the depth and breadth of my regulatory expertise to assess or avoid risk, develop and implement best practices, as well as support crisis management. I represent providers in licensing and disciplinary matters before various boards of registration, as well as government and private insurers. Leveraging my regular interaction with regulatory agencies, I assists clients in identifying and addressing trends in regulatory oversight. I have substantial experience conducting internal investigations regarding employment, billing, potential false claims, compliance and ethics issues. I guide my clients through numerous investigations by state and federal regulators and through reporting and self-disclosure processes under self-disclosure protocols. In addition, I offer support to clients in engaging and educating their board leadership about complex regulatory or legal issues.I litigate in state and federal courts and administrative tribunals, as well as before private arbitration panels. My practice also includes extensive experience in contract, construction, leasing, and general litigation matters.

Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo, Chief Judge United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania