Acosta, George L.

Greg Abrams served as legal counsel for the California Medical Association for nearly fifteen years. He continues to be the General Counsel for CMA’s quality and accreditation subsidiary, the Institute for Medical Quality.  Prior to his years at CMA, Mr. Abrams was a litigator in private practice with the San Francisco law firm of Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy.  Mr. Abrams also worked for the San Francisco City Attorneys Office as a health lawyer for the City’s Department of Public Health on peer review and medical staff matters, and as a litigator in workers’ compensation cases. 

At CMA, Mr. Abrams worked on a variety of issues affecting physicians including medical staff and peer review-related issues; well-being committee, disruptive behavior and impaired physician issues; Medical Board issues regarding physician discipline and unprofessional conduct; matters related to professional liability and the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975; physician reporting and warning requirements; and the HIPAA Privacy Rule, among other things.  He was also a co-author for fourteen annual revisions of CMA’s treatise on California health law, the California Physician's Legal Handbook. 

He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  He is President of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, comprised of attorneys who work with medical and specialty associations across the country; a member of the California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals, a private practice attorney group focused on physician issues involving peer review and Medical Board discipline; and is a member, and past member of the board, of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys.