Cassie’s practice primarily involves advising health care clients on transactional and regulatory matters, including serving as regulatory counsel on health care transactions and assisting clients in establishing and implementing MSO-PC arrangements. She frequently oversees the health care regulatory aspects of complex transactions in the health care industry, including recent private equity investments in pediatric, dental, ambulatory surgery, and addiction treatment providers. She has also served as regulatory counsel to various institutional lenders in financing transactions in connection with the acquisition of health and life science industry companies. Cassie regularly acts as a subject matter expert, advising clients on HIPAA/privacy compliance, telehealth and other digital health matters, corporate practice issues, professional and facility licensing, determinations of need/certificates of need, and Medicare and Medicaid compliance. Cassie also has experience advising non-profit organizations on matters related to formation and corporate governance.
Throughout her career, Cassie has worked with providers, payors, individual patients, and a range of investors in the health care space, so she understands the unique challenges facing clients in the ever-changing health care landscape. She enjoys working with interdisciplinary teams to come up with creative solutions to her clients’ problems.
Prior to joining Mintz, Cassie worked as in-house counsel at a national senior living company. There she advised the business on matters related to state and federal health care regulations, physician arrangements, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA/privacy. Cassie’s in-house experience informs current her practice, enabling her to anticipate and relate to clients’ legal and business needs.
A member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, Cassie is particularly passionate about addressing health disparities, focusing on increasing access to reproductive health care and behavioral health services, including substance use disorder treatment. She currently serves on the Board of the South Boston Collaborative Center, a substance abuse and mental health treatment center located in South Boston.
viewpoints
HIPAA Privacy Protections for PHI related to Reproductive Health Care: The Final Rule and what Covered Entities and Business Associates need to Know
April 26, 2024 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Safeguarding Reproductive Rights
February 23, 2024 | Article
Health Law Diagnosed — Mintz Health Law Team: Reflecting on What We Are Grateful For
February 5, 2024 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
Health Care Privacy and Security in 2024: Six Critical Topics to Watch
January 25, 2024 | Blog | By Dianne Bourque, Madison Castle, Lara Compton, Ellen Janos, Pat Ouellette, Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: DEA Extends Flexibility in Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth Through 2024
October 24, 2023 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Stephnie John
Effective July 1, Florida Will Prohibit Offshore Storage of Health Records and Require Additional Ownership Disclosures
June 20, 2023 | Blog | By Kate Stewart, Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: DEA Issues Temporary Rule on Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth as the Public Health Emergency Comes to an End
May 10, 2023 | Blog | By Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: DEA Issues Long-Awaited Proposed Rule on Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth
March 3, 2023 | Blog | By Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
Getting The Deal Done! Best Practices For Health Care Transactions
February 9, 2023 | Webinar
Telehealth Update: PHE Extended Through April 2023, But Some Key Telehealth Flexibilities Will Stick Around Longer
January 12, 2023 | Blog | By Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
News & Press
Mintz's Natalie Groot and Cassandra Paolillo Named Up & Coming Lawyers by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
March 18, 2024
Fifty-Nine Attorneys Recognized as 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
October 12, 2023
Potential Pitfalls of Telehealth Prescribing
July 29, 2022
Events & Speaking
Tracking Technologies in Health Care
Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation
Online Event
Telehealth: What's Next?
Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation (WBL) Event
Online Event
Recognition & Awards
Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch - Health Care Law (2024)
Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars: Health Care (2022 – 2023)
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Up & Coming Lawyer (2024)
Involvement
- Member, American Health Law Association
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Board Member, South Boston Collaborative Center