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 Susan A. Benz
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Co-chair of the firm's
Health Care Practice Group, Susan A. Benz is a partner at Damon & Morey.
She is a member of the firm's
Business & Corporate Department.
Her health care practice focuses on regulatory, reimbursement, and
compliance matters. Ms. Benz represents skilled nursing facilities, home
health agencies, assisted living and adult care facilities, hospices,
pharmacies, emergency transportation providers, and health care
professionals. She also represents not-for-profit organizations that
provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities and
behavioral health issues.
Ms. Benz regularly advises health care clients on Medicare, Medicaid, and third
party payor reimbursement matters (such as billing, audits,
investigations, fraud and abuse, corporate compliance matters);
government licensure issues (certification, survey, and enforcement
actions), and health information privacy concerns (HIPAA and state law
compliance). She handles patient care matters (admission,
discharge, treatment, and end-of-life decision-making issues) and the
concerns of health care professionals (employment, licensure,
credentialing, discipline). Ms. Benz also drafts and negotiates contracts
involving managed care, employment, affiliation, and vendor
relationships.
Ms. Benz is admitted to practice in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont
and before the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the
American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Law Section of the New
York State Bar Association and the Health Care Law Committee of the Bar
Association of Erie
County. Ms. Benz is also a member of the Western New
York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.
A frequent lecturer, Ms. Benz has also authored numerous articles on
health law issues. In 2007, she was named to Business First
of Buffalo's "Who's Who in Law List".
Prior to her employment at Damon & Morey, Ms. Benz practiced health
care law and litigation at a Boston, Massachusetts law firm, and served
as a judicial law clerk to a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, the
state’s highest court.
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Contact Information
Buffalo Office
Direct Dial: (716) 858-3812
sbenz@damonmorey.com
Concentrations
Behavioral Health
Business and
Corporate Law
Fraud, Abuse and
Compliance
Guardianships
Health Care
Home Health Care
Health
Information
Long Term Care
Medicaid and
Medicare Reimbursement
Medical Ethics
Nonprofit &
Charitable Organizations
Education
Harpur College, University of Binghamton BA
- with honors - 1981
Northeastern University School of Law - JD 1986
(Boston, MA)
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