Neil W. Hoffman, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Neil W. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a partner in the Healthcare Practice. Dr. Hoffman offers niche knowledge of the healthcare and life-sciences industry derived from more than 15 years' experience in providing legal representation to clients operating within this heavily regulated sector of the economy.Dr. Hoffman focuses his practice on providing transactional and regulatory representation to health and life-sciences clients, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospices, academic medical centers, medical groups, allied professionals, pharmaceutical and device companies, and clinical research organizations. His particular areas of focus include federal and state fraud-and-abuse laws (such as Stark law and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute), Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, health regulatory due diligence, privacy and security under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), response to data breach involving unsecured protected health information, group-practice shareholder arrangements, managed care contracting; drug-development contracting, and clinical research and applicable regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is experienced in helping clients to structure transactions and service models for regulatory compliance while achieving business objectives.Dr. Hoffman previously held research positions at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Department of Psychobiology at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied neuronal signaling properties and pathways relevant to hormonal and reproductive activity and participated in multi-disciplinary epilepsy research. Dr. Hoffman has co-authored numerous publications of original research in peer-reviewed journals in these fields.

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Hipaa, Health Law, Accountable Care, and 13 others.