Linda Cohen is a health care attorney advising clients on a variety of regulatory, transactional and litigation matters. Ms. Cohen’s practice concentrates on client counseling and litigation involving a wide range of provider reimbursement issues relating to commercial as well as government payers. She has substantial experience in commercial contract negotiation and payment related litigation for large health systems. Ms. Cohen has arbitrated, mediated and litigated several provider reimbursement disputes through conclusion and has appeared before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board. Additionally, Ms. Cohen handles issues relating to Medicare fraud and abuse laws, Medicare reimbursement, compliance issues, federal Anti-Kickback law, physician contracting and state regulatory compliance.
Immediately before joining the firm, Ms. Cohen served as the Director of External Appeals and as a regulatory compliance attorney for the Health Care Administration, a Division of Vermont’s Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration. At BISHCA, Ms. Cohen was primarily responsible for enforcement of health insurance laws and regulations relating to insurers and managed care organizations. She also ran the external appeals program which affords consumers an independent appeal of claims denied by commercial insurers.
Before relocating to Vermont, Ms. Cohen practiced in the health care and commercial litigation departments of Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia. While at Cozen O’Connor, Ms. Cohen participated in the representation of national health care systems in reimbursement disputes and a class action related to billing practices. She also represented large and small providers in contract negotiations, fraud and abuse matters and provided regulatory compliance advice. Ms. Cohen represented a variety of commercial clients in contract related disputes for a wide range of issues including title insurance, real estate leasing, non-competition agreements and anti-trust. Several of those actions included trials and arbitrations to conclusion. Ms. Cohen also participated in product liability defense of manufacturers of fire prevention and detection products.
