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Deborah Gardner
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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization