Paul A. Deeringer is an Associate in Hooper, Lundy & Bookman’s Business Department.  Mr. Deeringer received his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2001 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center cum laude in 2006.  Before joining Hooper, Lundy & Bookman in 2008, Mr. Deeringer was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in McKinsey’s New York and San Francisco offices, serving exclusively health care clients, with a practice focused on corporate growth strategy and long-term strategic planning.  Prior to practicing law, Mr. Deeringer was a Research Project Manager for the Health Technology Center (now the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health), a non-profit research organization whose mission is to create a trusted source of objective, expert and useful information about the future of health care technologies.

Practice Areas

Mr. Deeringer’s practice involves healthcare-related business transactions and general corporate representation, including contracts between hospitals and physicians, the purchase and sale of facilities, and general corporate advice.  Mr. Deeringer also advises clients on various regulatory issues, including:

• Hospital-physician alignment
• Issues facing emerging health technology companies
• Telemedicine and online prescribing
• Concierge medicine / membership-based medical practice
• Federal health reform (e.g., ACOs, payment bundling, exchanges)
• Long-term care
• Medi-Cal reimbursement
• Healthcare fraud and abuse
• Health information privacy and security (HIPAA, HITECH, state laws)
• Corporate practice of medicine / unauthorized practice of medicine
• Risk management and corporate compliance)
• Consent issues and healthcare decision-making

Mr. Deeringer also represents clients before administrative agencies and all courts, with a particular emphasis on Medi-Cal reimbursement challenges in the long-term care and durable medical equipment industries.  Mr. Deeringer has been heavily involved in the firm’s efforts to challenge the validity of the Medi-Cal Upper Billing Limit, 22 Cal. Code of Regulations 51008.1 (the “UBL”), and regularly counsels clients on UBL compliance issues.

Publications/Speaking Engagements

Tick, Tick, BOOM: CMS’s Proposed 60-Day Rule Regulations Would Create
Intense Time Pressure for Providers to Identify, Report, and Return
Overpayments, BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report (Feb. 22, 2012) (with John
R. Hellow and Robert L. Roth).

The Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative: An Analysis and Its Implications to Potential Participants, prepared for the California Hospital Association (Sept. 2011) (Co-Author).

Expanded Security Breach Notification Requirements Effective January 1, 2012, Health Law Advisory (Sept. 2011).

FDA Issues “Mobile Medical Applications” Draft Guidance: Health-Related Mobile Apps Subject to Increasing But Uncertain Regulation, Health Law Perspectives (Aug. 2011).

Social Networking for Hospitals, presented June 8, 2011, at the Hospital Council of Northern California Social Networking Workshop (with Stephen K. Phillips and Joseph R. LaMagna).

Accountable Care Organizations: What They Are and Why You Need to Know!  Webinar, presented May 18, 2011 to the American Health Care Association (with Mark E. Reagan).

ACOs, Or Else: Are ACOs a Strategic Imperative for Providers?  BNA’s Health Law Reporter, 20 HLR 18 (May 5, 2011).

Proposed Accountable Care Organization Regulations: Analysis and Implications, HLB White Paper (Apr. 2011) (Co-Editor and Co-Author).

Hot Topics in Medi-Cal Reimbursement: The Upper Billing Limit, and General Procedures and Strategies for Overpayments, presented Mar. 1, 2011, at the California Association of Medical Products Suppliers (CAMPS) Annual Convention (with Felicia Y Sze).

Practical Analysis of SNF Transparency Requirements Under PPACA, included in the 2011 Master Medicare Guide [¶6.18] (CCH Feb. 2011) (co-author with Mark E. Reagan).

Accountable Care Organization Provisions of Health Care Reform, California Hospital Association, Health Care Reform Issue – Specific Analyses (May 2010) (co-author with Robert W. Lundy, Jr., Esq.).

What Long-Term Care Providers Need to Know About Health Care Reform, Right Now!  Webinar, presented May 13, 2010, to the American Health Care Association (with Mark E. Reagan).

Advanced Wireless Technology in Healthcare, Roundtable Panelist, Apr. 28, 2010, at the HFMA/HIMSS Spring Full-Day Educational Event (San Diego, CA).

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Summary of Select Provisions Affecting Providers and Suppliers, Health Law Perspectives, Special Edition (Mar. 2010) (Contributor).

Emerging Issues in Telemedicine: How Do Innovations in E-health Delivery Fit Within the Existing Regulatory Environment?  Health Law Perspectives (Jan. 2010).

Privacy Law Update: Making Sense of Recent Changes in California and HIPAA Privacy Rules, presented Nov. 6, 2009, at the California Clinical Laboratory Association Annual Conference.

Regulation of Health Information: An Introduction to Laws Governing Health Information Privacy and Security, presented Apr. 29, 2009, guest lecture to the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), University of California, Berkeley.

Pork, Penalties, and Privacy: How to Get Paid Under the HITECH Act Without Getting Burned, Health Law Perspectives, Special Edition (Mar. 2009) (Contributor).

No Shirt, No Shoes, No English … No Dice? How Should We Test English Proficiency for Foreign-Trained Attorneys? 18 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 691 (2005).

The Rise Of The Restrictive Product License (co-author with Richard B. Ulmer). Competition, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2005).

Professional Affiliations

American Health Lawyers Association
California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
American Bar Association (Health and Administrative & Regulatory Law Sections)