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BRUCE J. GOLDSTEIN |
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J. Goldstein, Esq. is a founding partner of Wade, Goldstein,
Landau, & Abruzzo, PC, Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Wade,
Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo is a boutique health
care practice representing physicians, their practices,
and the organizations and institutions with which they
are affiliated in all regulatory and transactional areas.
Mr. Goldstein’s
practice focuses on fraud and abuse issues, reimbursement,
physician contracting matters, general corporate and
business matters, as well as the formation of commercial
medical ventures. He has considerable experience advising
health care clients on regulatory issues encountered
in the formation, organization, and operation of health
care entities, as well as responding to improper payer
denials and reductions. He also represents physicians
in licensing and related matters. He writes and lectures
frequently on practice management and health care legal
issues. He frequently lectures to regional and national
specialty associations on a variety of topics including
fraud and abuse, managed care contracting and the formation
and operations of integrated delivery systems. A graduate
of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva
University in New York, Mr. Goldstein also holds a Masters
Degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia
University.
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Business:
• Attorney-at-Law
Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo, P.C.
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
• Attorney-at-Law
Health Care Law Associates, P.C.
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
(1992 - 1993)
• Associate
Secor, Cassidy & McPartland
Waterbury, Connecticut
(1991 - 1992)
• Associate,
Health & Administrative Law Department
Hoberman & Pollack, P.C.
Hartford, Connecticut
(1988 - 1991)
• Legal
Intern
St. Raphael's Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut
(1987) |
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| Education:
• Juris Doctorate, Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York
City, New York
• Master of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of International
& Public Affairs, New York City, New York
• Bachelor of Arts,
Union College, Schenectady, New York, cum laude
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| Bar
Admissions:
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of Connecticut |
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| Professional
Associations:
National Health Lawyers Association
American Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Health Care Law Committee |
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Editorial and Writing:
Author of numerous articles on
practice management, financial, legal and other issues,
including:
• Co-author, How to Tame a Capitated
Contract, Review of Ophthalmology, October 1998
• Co-author, What to Do When the Auditor is at
your Door, American Medical News, March 1998
• Co-author, Fraud Audit, It Can Happen To You,
Cleveland Physician, July/August 1997
• Co-author, Ten Ways to Avoid a Health Care Fraud
Audit, Today’s Health, May, 1995,
• American Medical News, April 1997
• Cleveland Physician, July 1997
• Atlanta Medical Society Quarterly, August 1997
• Co-author, Bracing for a Fraud Audit, American
Medical News, April 1997
• Co-author, Protecting Your Practice From Insurance
Defaults, Pennsylvania Medicine, March 1993
• Group Practice Journal, February, 1997 |
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| Teaching:
Lecturer on practice management,
financial, legal and other issues, including: |
American Academy of Ophthalmology |
• Legal Primer 2003:
Compliance and Health Care Fraud, October, 2003
• A Day’s Pay for A Day’s
Work: Responding to a Payer’s Failure
to Pay, October 2002
• Legal Primer 2002; Compliance and Health
Care Fraud, October 2002
• How to Avoid a Healthcare Fraud Audit
and What to Do if Audited, October, 2002
• Who Stole Your Cheese, or...Do You Smell
a Rat in the Claims Processing Dept?, November
2001
• Ophthalmology Fraud and Compliance in
2001: An Odd Odyssey. November 2001
• Administrators Symposium on Employment
Law Issues for the Ophthalmic Group Practice,
November 2001
• Brave Old World: How to Identify, Acquire,
and Grow a Private Practice, October 2000
• Structuring a Successful Part-time Employment
Arrangement, October 2000
• There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills:
How to Identify, Acquire and Grow a Dormant
Practice, October, 1999
• Ophthalmic Practice Sales, October,
1999
• Blessed Be The Ties That Bind (Contracts-Can’t
Live With ‘Em, Can’t Shoot ‘Em),
October, 1999
• Pearls on How To Make The World Your
Oyster, October, 1999
• How to Avoid a Health Fraud Audit and
What to Do When Audited, November, 1998
• Contract Analysis, November, 1998
• Understanding Practice Acquisitions,
November, 1996
• Antitrust Issues in Managed Care, November,
1995
• Negotiating Managed Care Contracts,
November, 1994
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American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons/American
Society of Ophthalmic Administrators |
• Nasty Payor Tricks,
Congress on Ophthalmic Practice Management,
May 2002
• Nasty Payor Tricks: Discounted, Delayed,
And Downcoded Reimbursements, Congress on Ophthalmic
Practice Management, April 2001
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American Society of Retina Specialists |
• Improper Payor Denials
And Provider Responses, Vitreoretinal Practice
Management Issues Seminar, April 2003
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The Vitreous Society |
• Strategies For Dealing
With Third Party Payors, Vitreoretinal Practice
Management Issues Seminar, March 2001
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American Gastroenterological Association,
Center for GI Practice Management and Economics |
• Improper
Payor Denials and Provider Responses, Digestive
Disease Week, May 2003
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Norcal Management Company
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• Health Care
Investigations: Prescriptions for Physician
Survival, October, 2001
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International Business Communications
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• Physician
Affiliations with Practice Management Companies,
October 1997
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
• Legal Issues
in Disease Management, January 1997
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