Co-chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group, Susan Benz is a partner at Damon Morey. She is a member of the firm’s Business and Corporate Department.

Her health care practice focuses on regulatory, reimbursement, and compliance matters. Ms. Benz represents skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, home health agencies, hospices, pharmacies, dialysis centers, and health care professionals. She also represents not-for-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities, communication disorders, 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 and self disclosure 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. She was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in the field of Health Care law, a distinction she has held since 2009.

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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