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
Post-Pandemic Access to Telehealth: Highlights of the CMS 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
November 11, 2021 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
OIG Report Highlights Importance of Telehealth in Providing Behavioral Health Services, but Emphasizes Need for Additional Oversight
September 23, 2021 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: New Bill Seeks to Understand the Impact of Telehealth During COVID-19 as State COVID-19 Orders Expire
August 11, 2021 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Massachusetts Public Health Council Approves Amendments to Clinic Licensure Regulations
May 11, 2021 | Blog | By Daria Niewenhous, Cassandra Paolillo
Health Law Diagnosed — Telehealth Transformation: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
April 9, 2021 | Podcast | By Ellen Janos, Cassandra Paolillo
Telehealth Update: States Move to Permanently Expand Access to Telehealth
March 30, 2021 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
Telehealth Update: Extension of the Public Health Emergency, OIG Workplan Updates, and the Protecting Access to Post-COVID 19 Telehealth Act
February 3, 2021 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo, Ellen Janos
HIPAA Amendments and Other Trump Regulatory Actions on Hold
January 21, 2021 | Blog | By Dianne Bourque, Cassandra Paolillo
HHS Keeps On Sprinting with Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule
December 14, 2020 | Blog | By Dianne Bourque
Telehealth Update: Expansion of the Public Health Emergency, Telehealth Services for Home Health Beneficiaries, and a Special Event
November 12, 2020 | Blog | By 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