William M. Mandell

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Bill Mandell is a shareholder of Pierce & Mandell, P.C. He has practiced health law, dental law and business law since 1986. In his health law practice, Bill represents health care providers in regulatory and transactional matters, including practice start-ups, buy-ins and buy-outs, hospital - physician relationships, risk management, professional contracts and regulatory compliance. He also represents non-profit organizations corporate executives, start-ups, and small and family businesses.  He has served as a neutral hearing officer and advisor to medical staff hearing panels for medical staff disciplinary action and peer review appeals.

He is a 1982 graduate cum laude of Brandeis University and he received his juris doctor from Boston College Law School in 1986. Prior to the formation of Pierce & Mandell, P.C. in 1995, he practiced health and business law at two large Massachusetts law firms and also served at the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.

Bill is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association Health Law Section, the Healthcare Financial Management Association and he serves on the Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association Health Law Section. He is also a participant in the Massachusetts Medical Society's Qualified Network of Attorneys and Consultants.

His volunteer associations include, the Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project of Boston College Law School, Massachusetts Bar Foundation, The Advent School, and the Eddie Mandell Scholarship Fund, which awards annual college scholarships to deserving Boston Public School graduates. For more information click here to see the latest EMSF Newsletter.

Bill has been listed as a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer" in the practice area of Health Care Law in Boston Magazine for the past several years.

He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the publication Medical Office HIPAA.

Bill Mandell was recognized as a "Hero from the Field" at the Rx for Excellence Awards presented by Massachusetts Law Report on October 31, 2008

PUBLICATIONS:

"Capital Offense: How New State Pharma Marketing Laws Could Affect Your CME Programs", Medical Meetings, July/August, 2009 (Interview with Bill Mandell and other compliance and legal professionals)

 The Final DPH Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Conduct Regulations: The Industry Perspective, by William M. Mandell, Boston Bar Association Health Law Reporter, Summer 2009

Managing Physician Industry Relationships: Massachusetts and Beyond in 2009 by William M. Mandell

Pharma Dinner Meetings Banned in the Bay State, Medical Meetings, April 20, 2009, by Tamar Hosansky

Managing Relationships with Industry: A Physician's Compliance Manual, by Steven C. Schachter, M.D., William M. Mandell, Scott Harshbarger, and Randall Grometstein, Ph.D. (Elsevier June 2008).  This book was reviewed in "The New England Journal of Medicine" (Vol. 360, No. 13) on March 26, 2009.

Co-author of Making Sense Of The Stark Law: Compliance For The Medical Practice,
published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, 2005. Click here to download.

Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual, Co-Author of Chapter on "Physicians",
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc, 2004

The Final HIPAA Privacy Rule: A Primer for Nursing Home Administrators, Evaluation Associates CEU Program, 2002

Physician Practice Compliance Plans: Are They a Must?, MassMedia, April, 2000.

The Stark Realities of Health Care Fraud, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, November 20 , 1995.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

Medical Conventions in Boston: The Massachusetts Hospitality Industry Responds to the Healthcare Marketing Law: Summary of the New Massachusetts Law, 2009 Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association Annual Meeting, June 14, 2009

Conflicts of Interest in Health Care, Hospital and Health Law Conference 2009, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., May 22, 2009

Computerized Medical Records in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.,  April 13, 2005

Hospital - Physician Recruitment and Contracting After Stark II, Hospital and Health Law Conference 2005,  
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., April 29, 2005

HIPAA and Massachusetts Medial Records Law Update 2004, Chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., August 12, 2004

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement And Modernization Act And Other Regulatory Issues For 2004 And Beyond,
Massachusetts Society of Certified Professional Accountants, Physician & Health Care Committee Meeting, January 15, 2004
 
HIPAA Compliance: Prioritizing, Process and Risk Management, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Privacy Officers Forum,
February 14, 2003

Massachusetts HIPAATask Force Preemption Update, Massachusetts Health Information Management Association 2003 Winter Meeting

Professional Practice Buy-Ins and Buy-Outs, Boston Bar Association, September 26, 2002
 
Health Care Business Ventures, Massachusetts Bar Association, June 2, 1998.

Patient Advocacy: Legal Issues in Managed Care for Physicians, Massachusetts Medical Society & New England Healthcare Assembly, March 31, 1998.

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