Joanne B. Erde practices in the area of healthcare law, concentrating on Medicare and Medicaid law and regulations, corporate compliance issues, Medicare payment and billing rules, Medicare reimbursement controversies and appeals and healthcare fraud and abuse provisions.

In recent years she has represented private nonprofit hospitals, for-profit hospital groups and public hospitals across the country in disputes before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare fiscal intermediaries and federal courts. She has handled numerous settlement negotiations and administrative and judicial litigation regarding a wide variety of third party reimbursement and payment issues.

Admitted to practice in Florida and New York, she is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Law Section of The Florida Bar. She is a board certified healthcare lawyer.

Ms. Erde is a 1977 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law and earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Areas Of Practice

Healthcare
Third Party Reimbursement
Compliance/Fraud and Abuse

Professional Activities

The Florida Bar
- Health Law Section
American Health Lawyers Association
Healthcare Financial Management Association

Admissions

Florida
New York

Education

Hofstra University School of Law, J.D., 1977