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Deborah Gardner

1-617-951-7207 deborah.gardner@ropesgray.com

Work Department

Health Care

Position

Partner

Career

Deborah Kantar Gardner is a Boston-based partner in Ropes & Gray’s health care practice. Her practice focuses on Medicare and Medicaid payment, compliance and enforcement matters, including administrative and judicial litigation in connection with Medicare and Medicaid payment matters. Recently, she has been helping clients navigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including regulatory counseling in connection with HHS waivers of Federal Health Care Program requirements, and assistance with obtaining and understanding the financial relief available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), and Small Business Administration funding programs. Deborah’s clients include hospitals and health systems, health plans/managed care organizations, clinical diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, dialysis providers, physician practice management companies, therapy practices, durable medical equipment suppliers and medical device companies.

Deborah defends health care entities in connection with federal and state civil False Claims Act and other investigations, as well as internal reviews involving federal health care program matters. She represents clients in connection with federal health care program and commercial payor disputes, including administrative and judicial appeals associated with payments and cost report issues, licensure, and billing revocations. She represents hospitals in connection with EMTALA, CMS decertification and ACGME matters.

Deborah counsels clients on compliance with federal health care program authorities, including Medicare and Medicaid requirements, billing and coding issues, and federal and state fraud and abuse laws. She represents clients in connection with Medicare enrollment and survey and certification matters, and advises clients on health care program self-disclosures and repayments.

Education

• JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1989
• AB (American History and Literature), cum laude, Harvard College, 1985