Steve chairs Mintz Levin’s Health Law Practice. He has over 30 years of experience in the health care field as a policy maker, educator, and attorney. He represents health care services providers in a broad array of legal matters, including strategic positioning; structuring payor strategies and clinical integration initiatives; and mergers, acquisitions, strategic affiliations, “demergers,” and joint venture arrangements, including arrangements between tax-exempt and for-profit organizations.
He has also participated in a number of international health care activities, including structuring the health care regulatory system for the Dubai Healthcare City, where he now also serves on the licensing board, and representing a number of organizations engaged in the medical tourism industry. In Massachusetts, Steve has been very active in matters relating to the development and implementation of the Commonwealth’s signature health care reform program and in implementing the initiative to create a statewide interoperable electronic health record system, using both state and federal stimulus legislation funds.
Steve also represents health care providers in developing, monitoring, and restructuring relationships between hospitals and physicians; regulatory and reimbursement matters, including licensure, certification and determination (certificate) of need proceedings, managed care contracting, Medicare reimbursement and appeals, and Medicaid and uncompensated care pool reimbursement; fraud and abuse and Stark Law counseling; general contracting; and, for academic medical centers specifically, clinical research, conflict of interest, relationships with affiliated medical schools, and relationships with federally qualified community health centers.
He also works extensively with the US Department of Defense on matters relating to the TRICARE and the operations of the US Family Health Plan program. Since its inception, Steve serves as pro bono legal counsel to the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a foundation promoting compassionate care and more effective communications between patients and caregivers.
Steve is currently an adjunct law professor at Suffolk University School of Law, where he teaches a course on corporate transactions in the health care field, focusing on the constraints on business decisions by health care entities created by the application of antitrust law, fraud and abuse of Stark rules, and the laws affecting organizations that are nonprofit and tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. He also has served as an associate law professor at Boston University School of Law.
He lectures regularly on health care issues and is often quoted in the media on current developments and trends in the health care field. He has also served as a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and Boston University School of Law.
Recognitions & Awards
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Health Care Law in Boston (2011)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Health Care (2004 – 2012)
- Chambers USA: Massachusetts (Band 1) – Healthcare (2005 – 2013)
- Best Lawyers in America: Health Care Law (1991 – 2013)
- Good Guy Award, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus (2011)
- Nightingale’s Healthcare News Outstanding Hospital Lawyers (2009)
- Massachusetts Medical Law Report Rx for Excellence Leaders in Quality Award (2008)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent
- Who’s Who in America
Professional & Community Involvement
- President, HealthWell Foundation
- Advisory committee member, Brown University Master of Healthcare Leadership program
- Advisory board member, Center for Medical Tourism Research
- Regional representative, Yale Law School Association Executive Committee
- Board of trustees member, Jacob's Pillow Dance
- Board of trustees member, American Lyric Theatre
- Board of trustees member, Conservatory Lab Charter School Foundation
- Past chair, Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission
- Past special assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts for health policy
- Past director, Boston University School of Law Center for Law and Health Sciences
- Past board member, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
- Past board member, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Past director, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
- Past director, Massachusetts Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
- Past member, House of Delegates of Easter Seals Massachusetts
- Past board member, Massachusetts Health Council
- Past trustee, Opera Boston
- Past trustee, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
- Past trustee, Conservatory Lab Charter School
- Past trustee, Boston Ballet
- Past treasurer, Boston Ballet
Steve chairs Mintz Levin’s Health Law Practice. He has over 30 years of experience in the health care field as a policy maker, educator, and attorney. He represents health care services providers in a broad array of legal matters, including strategic positioning; structuring payor strategies and clinical integration initiatives; and mergers, acquisitions, strategic affiliations, “demergers,” and joint venture arrangements, including arrangements between tax-exempt and for-profit organizations.
He has also participated in a number of international health care activities, including structuring the health care regulatory system for the Dubai Healthcare City, where he now also serves on the licensing board, and representing a number of organizations engaged in the medical tourism industry. In Massachusetts, Steve has been very active in matters relating to the development and implementation of the Commonwealth’s signature health care reform program and in implementing the initiative to create a statewide interoperable electronic health record system, using both state and federal stimulus legislation funds.
Steve also represents health care providers in developing, monitoring, and restructuring relationships between hospitals and physicians; regulatory and reimbursement matters, including licensure, certification and determination (certificate) of need proceedings, managed care contracting, Medicare reimbursement and appeals, and Medicaid and uncompensated care pool reimbursement; fraud and abuse and Stark Law counseling; general contracting; and, for academic medical centers specifically, clinical research, conflict of interest, relationships with affiliated medical schools, and relationships with federally qualified community health centers.
He also works extensively with the US Department of Defense on matters relating to the TRICARE and the operations of the US Family Health Plan program. Since its inception, Steve serves as pro bono legal counsel to the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a foundation promoting compassionate care and more effective communications between patients and caregivers.
Steve is currently an adjunct law professor at Suffolk University School of Law, where he teaches a course on corporate transactions in the health care field, focusing on the constraints on business decisions by health care entities created by the application of antitrust law, fraud and abuse of Stark rules, and the laws affecting organizations that are nonprofit and tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. He also has served as an associate law professor at Boston University School of Law.
He lectures regularly on health care issues and is often quoted in the media on current developments and trends in the health care field. He has also served as a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and Boston University School of Law.
Recognitions & Awards
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Health Care Law in Boston (2011)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Health Care (2004 – 2012)
- Chambers USA: Massachusetts (Band 1) – Healthcare (2005 – 2013)
- Best Lawyers in America: Health Care Law (1991 – 2013)
- Good Guy Award, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus (2011)
- Nightingale’s Healthcare News Outstanding Hospital Lawyers (2009)
- Massachusetts Medical Law Report Rx for Excellence Leaders in Quality Award (2008)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent
- Who’s Who in America
Professional & Community Involvement
- President, HealthWell Foundation
- Advisory committee member, Brown University Master of Healthcare Leadership program
- Advisory board member, Center for Medical Tourism Research
- Regional representative, Yale Law School Association Executive Committee
- Board of trustees member, Jacob's Pillow Dance
- Board of trustees member, American Lyric Theatre
- Board of trustees member, Conservatory Lab Charter School Foundation
- Past chair, Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission
- Past special assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts for health policy
- Past director, Boston University School of Law Center for Law and Health Sciences
- Past board member, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
- Past board member, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Past director, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts
- Past director, Massachusetts Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
- Past member, House of Delegates of Easter Seals Massachusetts
- Past board member, Massachusetts Health Council
- Past trustee, Opera Boston
- Past trustee, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
- Past trustee, Conservatory Lab Charter School
- Past trustee, Boston Ballet
- Past treasurer, Boston Ballet
Publications
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Co-author,
President’s 2014 Budget Proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Mintz Levin | ML Strategies Advisory ()
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Late Action to Avert “Fiscal Cliff” Includes Several Health Policy Changes, Health Law | ML Strategies Alert ()
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Co-author,
Patient Centered Medical Homes and Massachusetts Health Care Cost Containment Legislation, Health Law | ML Strategies Alert ()
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Author,
Cost Growth Benchmark and Performance Improvement Plans Under Massachusetts’s New Health Care Reform Act, Health Law | ML Strategies Alert ()
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Co-author,
Massachusetts Legislature Passes Comprehensive Health Care Payment Reform, ML Strategies | Health Law Alert ()
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Co-author,
Supreme Court Health Care Ruling: Preliminary Analysis & Implications Going Forward, Health Law | Employee Benefits | ML Strategies Alert ()
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Private Equity's Interest in Non-Profit Hospitals: What's Next, HealthLeaders Media ()
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Co-author,
CMS Proposes New Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, Health Care Reform Advisory ()
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Co-author,
Massachusetts Takes the Next Step: An Interim Step Toward Payment Reform?, Health Care Reform Advisory ()
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Co-author,
Medicare in the 21st Century: Achieving Quality and Efficiency Through Payment and Service Delivery Reforms, BNA's Medicare Report ()
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HHS Announces Delay in Enforcement of HITECH Rules as Applied to Business Associates, Health Law | Employee Benefits Alert ()
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Co-author,
Payment Reform—A Catalyst for Increased M&A Activity, Health Care Reform Advisory ()
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Co-author,
TRICARE Announces Implementation of Medicare's Outpatient Prospective Payment System, Health Law Alert ()
Speaking Engagements
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Panelist,
Understanding the Trend of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions,
Assessing Risk and Opportunity in the Changing Healthcare Industry,
National Federation of Municipal Analysts, New Orleans, LA
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Speaker,
Medicare/Medicaid,
Planning for 2013: Health Care Industry Trends in the New Year,
Health Beat Webinar Series hosted by Mintz Levin and ML Strategies, Webinar
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Moderator,
How Can Life Sciences Companies Help Providers Meet the Health Care Reform Challenges?,
2012 Life Sciences Summit,
New England Israel Business Council, Waltham, MA
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Speaker,
Massachusetts Payment Reform Legislation Review,
Healthcare and Payment Reform: Impact on Value Demonstration,
Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council , Waltham, MA
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Moderator,
Value Creation by Life Science Companies: How to Deal with Concerns and Challenges Facing Health Care Providers, Payers, Policy Makers and Investors,
NEIBC Life Sciences Summit,
New England-Israel Business Council, Waltham, MA
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Panelist,
ASCO Annual Convention,
American Society for Clinical Oncology
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Speaker,
Health Care: The Massachusetts Role in Federal Reform and What the New Law Means to a Muni Analyst,
Broker-Dealer Week Webinar: The SEC’s New Uptick Rule,
Boston Municipal Analyst Forum, Webinar
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Speaker,
Can Medical Tourism Lower Your Healthcare Costs?,
Lorman Educational Services Teleconference
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Speaker,
Medicare Payment and Service Delivery Reforms,
Health Care Reform: What’s Happened and What’s Next for the Health Care Industry,
Mintz Levin and ML Strategies, Boston, MA
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Speaker,
Making History with Health Care Reform: What’s Happened and What’s Next?,
Mintz Levin and ML Strategies, Webinar
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Speaker,
Overview of Massachusetts Health Reform,
Board of SelectHealth Health Plan, Boston, MA
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Speaker,
Obama's Healthcare Reform: the Role of Technology and the Health Information Technology Funding,
Israel Venture Association High Tech Conference, Israel Liaison Office
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Speaker,
Addressing Legal Issues,
Latin America Medical Tourism and Health Tourism Congress
Newsroom
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Quoted in
Obama’s Budget Plan Would Hit Hospitals’ Bottom Lines, Law360 ()
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Quoted in
Health Providers Brace For Medicare Spending Cuts, Law360 ()
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Quoted in
Hospitals Would Likely Bear the Brunt of More Medicare Cuts, Law360 ()
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Quoted in
Health Care Cases to Watch in 2013, Law360 ()
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Quoted in
Health Care Regulation to Watch in 2013, Law360 ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen M. Weiner to Speak at National Federation of Municipal Analysts Healthcare Seminar , ()
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Quoted in
Fiscal Cliff May Be Obamacare’s Next Enemy, MedCity News ()
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Quoted in
Health Providers Gird for Battle over Deficit Cuts, Law360 ()
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Quoted in
Obama Win to Unleash Onslaught of ACA Regulations, Law360 ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen M. Weiner to Moderate Panel at New England Israel Business Council’s Life Sciences Summit, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen M. Weiner to Present at Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council Program , ()
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Seventy-One Mintz Levin Attorneys Named 2012 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars , ()
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Mintz Levin Represents New England Sinai Hospital in Acquisition by Steward Health Care System, LLC, ()
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Sixty Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2013 Edition, ()
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Quoted in
Austerity Program: States Keep an Eye on Mass. Legislation Limiting Annual Healthcare Expenditures, Modern Healthcare ()
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Quoted in
States Eye Whether Mass. Health Cost Bill is Tough Enough, Law360 ()
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Mintz Levin Represents Lowell General Hospital in Merger with Saints Medical Center, ()
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Quoted in
Who wins? Health Care Lawyers, That’s who, The National Law Journal ()
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Quoted in
Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare: Boston Execs React, Boston Business Journal ()
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Forty-One Mintz Levin Attorneys Featured in Chambers USA 2012 Guide, ()
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Quoted in
Fans, Critics Pleased Court Will Tackle Reform Law, Modern Healthcare ()
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Fifty-Two Mintz Levin Attorneys Recognized as Massachusetts Super Lawyers, ()
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Forty-Three Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2012 Edition, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Deliver Keynote Address at American College of Healthcare Executives Spring Conference, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Speak at National Federation of Municipal Analysts Annual Conference, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Speak at Second Annual Latin America Medical Travel Summit, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Speak at Advancing Leadership in Health and Pharmacy Management Conference, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Speak at Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, ()
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Thirty Four Mintz Levin Attorneys Featured in Chambers USA 2011 Guide, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen M. Weiner to Receive Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus "Good Guy" Award, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner Speaking on Panel at Petrie-Flom Institute at Harvard Law School, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorneys R. Robert Popeo and Stephen M. Weiner Named Boston “Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers, ()
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Forty-Nine Mintz Levin Attorneys Recognized as Massachusetts Super Lawyers, ()
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Thirty-Nine Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2011 Edition, ()
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Mintz Levin Attorney Stephen Weiner to Participate as a Panelist at the Annual Convention of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, ()
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Mintz Levin Adds Six Attorneys to Chambers USA 2010 Guide, ()
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Forty-Eight Mintz Levin Attorneys Recognized as Massachusetts Super Lawyers, ()
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Stephen Weiner Named by Nightingale's to 2009 List of Outstanding Hospital Lawyers, ()
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Thirty-One Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2010 Edition, ()
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Chambers USA Names 22 Mintz Levin Attorneys Leaders in Their Fields for 2009, ()
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Twenty-Nine Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2009 Edition, ()
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Forty-Six Mintz Levin Attorneys Recognized as Massachusetts Super Lawyers, ()
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Stephen M. Weiner Receives Award for Best Practices in Medicine from Massachusetts Medical Law Report, ()
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Stephen M. Weiner to present on Medical Tourism at the New England Employee Benefits Council, ()
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Stephen M. Weiner to present at the World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress, ()
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Stephen M. Weiner to present at a Health Care Cost Management in Massachusetts breakfast, ()
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Stephen M. Weiner Recognized with a Massachusetts Medical Law Report's Rx for Excellence Leaders in Quality Award, ()
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Chambers USA Names 20 Mintz Levin Attorneys Leaders in their Fields for 2008, ()
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Forty-Five Mintz Levin Attorneys Recognized as Massachusetts Super Lawyers, ()
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Twenty-Four Mintz Levin Attorneys Included in The Best Lawyers in America, 2008 Edition, ()
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Chambers USA Names 19 Mintz Levin Attorneys Leaders in Their Fields for 2007, ()