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Michael G. Tauber

  • Partner
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Practice Areas:

  • Health Care Law
  • Corporate and Business Law
  • Nonprofit
  • Privacy & Data Security

Biography

Michael joined the Firm in 2021. He provides legal counsel and strategic advice to healthcare and mental health care providers, human service organizations, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other health care institutions. He has extensive experience with regulatory and accreditation issues, ethical and patient-care concerns, including confidentiality and HIPAA compliance, fraud and abuse compliance issues, reimbursement issues, multi-provider organizations, and medical staff and professional licensing matters. Michael provides advice on corporate governance, non-profit, and general business law matters, including joint ventures, acquisitions, mergers, and physician and payor contracts. He assists clients in conducting internal investigations and responding to inquiries from governmental authorities. In addition, he has substantial experience drafting legislation and regulations.

Michael has taught and lectured about health law at Providence College, Tufts University Medical School, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and Boston College Law School. Prior to law school, he had a fifteen-year career providing, administering, and regulating behavioral, mental health, and substance abuse services for children, adolescents, and adults.

Education

  • Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • J.D. – 1997
    • Honors: summa cum laude
    • Honors: Order of the Coif
    • Law Review: Boston College Law Review, Member
  • The Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
    • Master of Management – 1994
  • Reed College
    • B.A. – 1982
    • Honors: Commendation for Excellence in Scholarship
    • Honors: Honors Thesis: The Holocaust and the Problem of Evil
    • Major: Psychology and Religion
  • Centro IberoAmericano De Cooperacion, University of Madrid
    • Diploma – 1979

Honors

  • Best Lawyers in America® (2008 - Present)
  • Lawyer of the Year (2015) Recognized for Health Care Law
  • Rhode Island Monthly, Professional Excellence in the Law, 2023

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2001
  • Rhode Island, 1998
  • Massachusetts, 1997

Professional Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Leading Age (formerly American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging)

Past Positions

  • Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, Partner, 2005 to 2021, Associate 1998 to 2004
  • The Honorable Ruth I. Abrams, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Law Clerk, 1997 to 1998
  • Advocates, Inc., Framingham, Massachusetts, Director of Operations and Quality Management, 1992 to 1994
  • Advocates, Inc., Framingham, Massachusetts, Director of Program Services, 1990 to 1992
  • Advocates, Inc., Framingham, Massachusetts, Director of Mental Health Services, 1990 to 1991