Sophia focuses her practice on advising health care organizations on a broad spectrum of regulatory and compliance matters. She represents traditional health care providers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), health plans, rebate aggregators, management services organizations, and other for-profit and nonprofit health care clients. She regularly negotiates complex transaction terms, conducts due diligence, prepares corporate organizational and services related documents, and counsels PBMs and health plans on contracting and regulatory matters. Her practice also involves advising clients on value-based-care arrangements health care regulatory matters involving licensure and certification requirements.
Prior to joining Mintz, Sophia was an associate at a law firm that specialized in serving the health care sector, where she advised health care clients on a range of business, regulatory and transactional matters.
While earning her JD, Sophia served as a legal intern at a civil litigation firm in New York, the Office of the General Counsel at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the New York Legal Assistance Group. In law school, she served as an executive editor for the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice and volunteered with the school’s Mediation Clinic. She also received a Jacob Burns Medal - Faculty Award.
Sophia earned a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Health Policy and Management. Before law school, she interned as a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and as a project associate for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation with the NYU Advanced Project in Healthcare Policy and Management.
viewpoints
PBM Policy and Legislative Update — Winter 2024
April 9, 2024 | Blog | By Theresa Carnegie, Tara E. Dwyer, Rachel A. Alexander, Bridgette Keller, Madison Castle, David Gilboa, Xavier Hardy, Abdie Santiago, Hassan Shaikh, Sophia Temis
Health Law Diagnosed — Mintz Health Law Team: Reflecting on What We Are Grateful For
February 5, 2024 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
New York State Prepares to Regulate Hospital Cybersecurity Programs
November 28, 2023 | Blog | By Sophia Temis, Cody Keetch, Jean D. Mancheno
New York and Connecticut Increase Regulation Over Hospital and Health System Facility Fees
July 20, 2023 | Blog | By Jean D. Mancheno, Sophia Temis
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are on the Federal Government’s Radar: Senate, House, and Agency Proposals Seek to Increase PBM Oversight - Part 2
June 15, 2023 | Blog | By Bridgette Keller, Sophia Temis
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are on the Federal Government’s Radar: Senate, House, and Agency Proposals Seek to Increase PBM Oversight – Part 1
June 6, 2023 | Blog | By Bridgette Keller, Sophia Temis
This blog post highlights recent Senate activity as well as a proposed bipartisan Senate and House bill that would impact PBM activity in the Medicaid-managed care space. This blog post is the first in a series of two posts detailing recent federal activities aimed at increasing oversight of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry.
The End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency is Near: What to Expect as HHS Transitions beyond the Emergency Phase
April 27, 2023 | Blog | By Jean D. Mancheno, Sophia Temis
Operation Nightingale: Fraudulent Nursing Diploma Scheme and Its Implications on Health Care
February 6, 2023 | Blog | By Sophia Temis
Mintz Health Law: What We Are Grateful For
January 11, 2023 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
OIGs Report on Expanded Telehealth Service Access and Use, Program Integrity Risks During Year One of COVID-19 Pandemic
December 21, 2022 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, Pat Ouellette, Sophia Temis
News & Press
Publications
- Co-author, An Examination of State Trends in Facility Fee Legislation as New York’s Public Health Law § 2830 Takes Effect, New York State Bar Association’s Health Law Journal (September 2023)*
- Co-author: "HIPAA happenings: 2023 year in review." Compliance Today (March 2024)
*Reprinted with permission from the New York State Bar Association © 2023.
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Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch - Health Care Law (2024)