
Cassie’s practice primarily involves advising health care clients on transactional and regulatory matters. Cassie has served as deal counsel on a number of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and affiliations for clients across the health care spectrum, including a Fortune 250 kidney care company, and providers of radiology services, addiction treatment, and behavioral health services. She also 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, and individual patients, 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.
Cassie is particularly passionate about addressing access to behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, especially for underserved communities, and 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
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
Mintz Health Law: What We Are Grateful For
January 11, 2023 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
Is Your Website Collecting PHI Under OCR's New Tracking Technologies Bulletin?
December 7, 2022 | Blog | By Dianne Bourque, Lara Compton, Kathryn Edgerton, Cassandra Paolillo, Kate Stewart
Telehealth Update: Assessing PHE Flexibilities, Pending Legislation Entering Fall 2022
September 1, 2022 | Blog | By Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
Health Law Diagnosed – Digital Health During the PHE and Beyond: Leveraging Telehealth to Address Disparities in Access to Care
June 14, 2022 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller, Cassandra Paolillo
Potential Pitfalls of Telehealth Prescribing
May 31, 2022 | Blog | By Lara Compton, Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
News & Press
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
- Included on the Massachusetts Rising Stars: Health Care list (2022)
Involvement
- Member, American Health Law Association
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Board Member, South Boston Collaborative Center
