Bangor Address:
88 Hammond Street, Suite 500
Bangor, ME 04401-4915

Gregory A. Brodek concentrates his practice exclusively in the area of healthcare law and represents clients, including hospitals, physicians, physician groups and integrated delivery systems, nationwide.

His extensive healthcare experience includes representing providers in resolving disputes with public and private payors, negotiating settlements with federal and state agencies, structuring integrated delivery systems and physician networks, negotiating managed care arrangements, developing reimbursement strategies both on a state and federal level, and advising on self referral laws, tax-exempt concerns and day-to-day operational questions.

Mr. Brodek is an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Healthcare Law sections of the Maine State and American bar associations. He has lectured widely and has written on many healthcare matters, including "Rural and Sole Hospital," Hospital Affiliated Integrated Delivery Systems Handbook, published by the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. He is a 1988 graduate of Drake University Law School and a graduate of Boston University.

Representative Matters

Primary responsibility serving as general counsel for: St. Joseph Hospital, Waldo County General Hospital, Cary Medical Center, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, Clarion Hospital, and The Maine Health Alliance (11 hospital/380 physician network), and in such role, general responsibility for all issues arising out of those institutions, and special counsel for Western Maine PHO, Northern Maine Medical Center, Millinocket Regional Hospital, Down East Community Hospital and Houlton Regional Hospital. Also responsible for serving as general counsel for the following physician practices: Gastroenterology Network of East Tennessee, Southern New Hampshire Specialists IPA, Middle Tennessee Gastroenterology IPA, Eye Center Northeast, Northern Maine Endoscopy Center, and Penobscot Community Health Center.

Professional Activities

American Bar Association
- Health Law Section
Maine State Bar Association
- Health Law Section
- Business Law Section
Penobscot County Bar Association
Healthcare Financial Management Association
American Health Lawyers Association
- Health System Transactions Special Interest and Substantive Law Committee Regulations, Accreditation - Payment Special Interest and Substantive Law Committee

Admissions

Maine
State and Federal Courts of Maine

Education

Drake University Law School, J.D., 1988

Experience

Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 1999-present
Kozak, Gayer & Brodek, P.A., Bangor, Maine
- Founding Partner and Shareholder, 1995-1999
Eaton, Peabody, Bradford & Veague, P.A., Bangor, Maine
- Partner, 1989-1995

Board Memberships

Penobscot Community Health Center

Selected Publications

Co-author, "New Case Adopts "Common Sense" Approach to Academic Medical Center Stark Exception," Duane Morris Alert, May 2, 2008
"Rural and Sole Hospital," Hospital Affiliated Integrated Delivery Systems Handbook, published by the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, 1995
"Medicaid Programs Provider Self-Audits," Monitoring & Auditing Practices for Effective Compliance," published by Health Care Compliance Association, 2002

Selected Speaking Engagements

Speaker, "Payer Disputes: A Legal Perspective," MACEP Annual Emergency Medicine Coding and Reimbursement Fall Conference, Waltham, Massachusetts, November 21, 2008
Speaker, "Beating the Devil You Know: Managing Managed Care Organizations," Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 29, 2002
Speaker, "Monitoring and Enforcing Commercial Payor Agreements," American Society of Medical Association Counsel (ASMAC) CLE, Kennebunkport, Maine, September 29, 2002
Speaker, "Monitoring and Enforcing Commercial Payor Agreements," Maine Medical Association 11th Annual Physician Practice Seminar, Orono, Maine, June 26, 2002
Speaker, "Current Events in the Healthcare Market," The Maine Health Alliance Physician Training Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 18, 2002
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracts," Gastroenterology Practice and Endoscopic ASC's Creating Success 2002 Course, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 13, 2002
Speaker, "7th Annual Health Law Institute", Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 13 and 14, 2001
Speaker, "Current Decision Environment In Maine", The Maine Health Alliance, Rockport, Maine, March 8 and 9, 2001
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracting & Corporate Compliance Issues", Maine Chapter of the Health Financial Management Association and Maine Medical Association, Bangor, Maine, February 28, 2001
Speaker, "Payment Problems and Remedies: Claims Denial," Healthcare Financial Management Association, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, September 22, 2000
Speaker, "Practice Merger: The Minimalistic Approach and the Clinical Integration Model," American College of Gastroenterology and the Tennessee Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Nashville, Tennessee, July 29, 2000
Speaker, "Health Information Privacy and Security Standards Under the 1996 Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)," Maine and New Hampshire hospitals affiliated with Quorum Health Resources, Inc., Bangor, Maine, June 8, 2000
Speaker, "Physician Recruitment and Retention Arrangements and Physician-Hospital Integration Models," The Maine Health Alliance Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 20, 2000
Speaker, Gastroenterology Managed Care and Endoscopic ASC's- Creating Success Year 2000, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and The Endoscopy Center Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 14, 2000
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracting Principles," DeMark, Kolbe & Brodek, S.C., Racine, Wisconsin, December, 3, 1999
Speaker, "Clinical Integration and Other Merger Options Issues," Gastroenterology Live Presentation Network of East Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 20, 1999
Speaker, "The Physicians' Role in Networks, The Maine Health Alliance, Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine and Merck & Co., Inc., St. Andrews, New Brunswick, May 21-22, 1999
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracting," American College of Gastroenterology Annual Practice Management Seminar, Boston, Massachusetts, October 9, 1998
Speaker, "Long Term Care," Health Care Industry Group Summer Training Session, Portland, Maine, July 21, 1998
Speaker, "Negotiating Managed Care Contracts," 1998 Spring Health Care Conference, Portland, Maine, March 10, 1998
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracting," sponsored by Duane, Morris & Heckscher, LLP, Caribou, Maine, February 12, 1998
Speaker, "Corporate Compliance," HFMA Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 18, 1997
Speaker, "Managed Care Contracting," Seminar Series at 11 hospitals sponsored by The Maine Health Alliance, September 1, 1997 to October 30, 1997
Speaker, "Corporate Compliance for the Health Care Industry," sponsored by Duane, Morris & Heckscher, LLP, Lucerne, Maine, June 6, 1997
Speaker, 18th Annual Institute on Medicare & Medicaid Payment Issues, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2, 1997
Speaker, "The Role of Federally Qualified Health Centers/Rural Health Clinics in Integrated Delivery Systems," AAHA/NHLA 16th Annual Medicare /Medicaid Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, March 29, 1995
Speaker, "Managed Care Law," Health Law in Maine, National Business Institute, Portland, Maine, October 22, 1996
Speaker, "Legal Perspective of Managed Care Contracting," Maine Health Care Association, Augusta, Maine, June 13, 1996
Speaker, "Key Legal Issues," 1996 Enterprise Financial Management Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, February 4-7, 1996
Speaker, "The Role of Federally Qualified Health Centers/Rural Health Clinics in Integrated Delivery Systems," 17th Annual Medicare/Medicaid Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, March 27-29, 1996
Speaker, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What's Hot and What's Not in Reimbursement," Healthcare Financial Management Association Conference, Bangor, Maine, October 28, 1994
"First Stage Integration: As It Impacts Rural Providers," Eaton, Peabody, Bradford & Veague, P.A. Conference, Bangor, Maine, May 20, 1994
Speaker, " Director Liability in the Non-Profit Arena," Good Samaritan Conference, Bangor, Maine, April 13, 1994