Practice Expertise

  • Corporate & Transactional
  • False Claims Act
  • Government Relations
  • Capital Markets

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate & Transactional
  • False Claims Act
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Industry
  • Life Sciences Industry
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Securities
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Profile

Eric serves as co-chair of Dinsmore’s Health Care Industry practice group. He represents a wide variety of provider entities including multi-hospital health systems, hospitals, surgery centers, medical practices, and individual providers in a wide range of health care industry and business issues. From serving as outside general counsel to transactional/project counsel, Eric regularly advises clients regarding hospital/medical practice mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, physician compensation issues, joint venture transactions and relationships, operational compliance issues and compliance program implementation and training, as well as Stark law and Anti-kickback statute analysis.

He also has significant experience addressing the wide range of regulatory issues that providers and institutions frequently encounter in the modern health care industry. These include mandatory reporting obligations, HIPAA regulations, scope of practice issues, and telemedicine. Eric has successfully represented both entities and providers in credentialing, medical staff matters, and third-party payer audits. He also has extensive experience representing entities and providers in regulatory investigations, hearings, and administrative appeals.

In 2022, Eric was credited as a published author for his portion in Thomson Reuters Health Law Handbook, 2021 Edition. He highlights Medical Practice Act and NPDB Reporting: Trends and Implications for Physicians and Hospitals. Earlier in his career, Eric worked as an attorney for the State Medical Board of Ohio. He is a member of the American Health Law Association and the Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys, for whom he served as president.

Bar Admissions

    Ohio

Court Admissions
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
    U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Education

  • University of Toledo College of Law (J.D., 1992)
  • Hanover College (B.A., 1989)

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate & Transactional
  • False Claims Act
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Industry
  • Life Sciences Industry
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Securities

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Best Lawyers® (2006 - present)
    • "Lawyer of the Year" in Columbus for Health Care Law (2020)
  • Ohio Super Lawyers®  (2007 - Present)
    • Top 50: Columbus Super Lawyers (2011)
      • Health Care 
  • Ohio Rising Star® (2005)
  • Top Lawyers by Columbus CEO magazine (2022) in two practice areas:
    • Health Care
    • Administrative/Regulatory
  • Thomson Reuters Health Law Handbook, 2021 Edition: Medical Practice Act and NPDB Reporting:  Trends and Implications for Physicians and Hospitals 


Professional Associations
  • Society of Ohio Health Care Attorneys
    • President (2018 - 2020)
    • Vice president (2016 - 2017)
    • Secretary (2014 - 2015)
    • Board member (2010 - 2013)
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Capital University, Health Care Law
    • Adjunct Professor 
  • Ohio State Bar Association
    • Health Care Law Committee
  • Columbus Bar Association
    • Health Care Law Committee
      • Chair (2009 - 2011)
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Central Ohio Chapter
    • Board of Trustees (2002 - 2008)
    • Team-in-Training Cyclist
  • MOSSL, GOYSL, HOSA and middle school, youth soccer coach



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