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FN:Philip H. Lebowitz
TEL;WORK:215.979.1819
TEL;FAX:215.689.3585
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:Lebowitz@duanemorris.com
N:Lebowitz; Philip
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP<br />30 South 17th Street<br />Philadelphia, PA  19103-4196<br />USA<br />
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NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Philip H. Lebowitz practices primarily in the area of healthcare law and litigation. Mr. Lebowitz provides regulatory and general counseling to healthcare providers, including hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, health care consultants, and physicians. His healthcare experience includes litigation and legal counseling regarding antitrust, fraud and abuse, HIPAA and privacy, reimbursement, managed care contracting, specialty hospital development, pharmaceutical and medical device marketing and pricing, False Claims Act,  credentialing and privileges disputes, and clinical trial research contracting, compliance and ethical issues. Mr. Lebowitz also represents medical device manufacturers in state administrative proceedings regarding regulations, including workers compensation, affecting the use and reimbursement of device products, and startup healthcare businesses regarding issues posed by physician ownership.

In the healthcare litigation area, Mr. Lebowitz has defended government and qui tam investigations and has represented hospitals and other healthcare providers in litigation against managed care companies regarding reimbursement and other issues. He also has handled breach of contract disputes, certificate of need, electronic discovery and "litigation hold" issues, nonprofit hospital sales to for-profit entities regarding court approval, and other regulatory challenges as well as research misconduct matters. He also has litigated restraint of trade antitrust issues involving hospitals, nursing homes and physician groups.

Mr. Lebowitz has written numerous articles and lectured extensively on healthcare issues. He is experienced in both mediation and arbitration forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and is a member of the Dispute Resolvers panel of the American Health Lawyers Association. He has been designated among the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in Healthcare Law.    

Mr. Lebowitz is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and several federal district courts and courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He served a judicial clerkship to the Hon. Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin. Mr. Lebowitz is a 1981 cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a member of the Wisconsin Law Review, a 1975 graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (M.F.A.) and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University.

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