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
CMS Announces Final Rule on ESRD Treatment Choices Model
September 24, 2020 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: CMS Proposed CY 2021 Payment Policies, Extension of the Public Health Emergency, Increasing Access after COVID-19, and the Coronavirus Stimulus Package
August 5, 2020 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
Senate HELP Committee Signals Support for Permanently Expanding Telehealth Access
June 24, 2020 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
CMS Administrator Verma Calls for Permanent Expansion of Telehealth Access after COVID-19. Will States Follow Suit?
June 10, 2020 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
Not So Sweet: Failure to Timely Recall Contaminated Ice Cream Results in Major Consequences for Texas Manufacturer
May 11, 2020 | Blog | By Joanne Hawana, Cassandra Paolillo
Part 2 Proposed Rule Brings Clarity and Reduces Regulatory Burdens for Substance Use Disorder Providers, but Challenges Remain
September 3, 2019 | Blog | By Dianne Bourque, Cassandra Paolillo
Recent Executive Order Makes the Road to Increased Healthcare Transparency Unclear
July 2, 2019 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Mintz and ML Strategies Host the 4th Annual Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Industry Summit
May 10, 2019 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Judge Dismisses FCA Claims Against Compounding Pharmacy and Private Equity Firm Owner but Allows the Government to Amend
March 13, 2019 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, Cassandra Paolillo
Independent Laboratory Settles Medical Necessity Allegations
February 20, 2019 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, 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