Steve is a principal in the Health Law Group at Ober|Kaler. He is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and is the Attorney-in-Charge of that office. He practices exclusively in the health care regulatory, operational and transactional areas where he counsels hospitals and other clients on: compliance, both operationally and legally, with the various laws and regulations that affect them, including the Stark and anti-kickback laws; structuring transactions to achieve the objectives of the client and to comply with such laws and regulations; patient safety and quality assurance issues as they relate to both reimbursement and improvement of patient care; medical staff issues including disciplinary matters and all peer review related issues; corporate governance best practices; and risk and claims management, insurance coverage and fiduciary responsibilities. Prior to joining Ober|Kaler, Steve spent ten years as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel for a large healthcare system in Maryland where he had both operational and legal responsibilities. He is a frequent speaker and author on health care legal issues at the national and local level.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

Court of Appeals of Maryland

United States District Court for the District of Maryland

University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1980

Order of the Coif

University of Maryland, B.A., with honors, 1977

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

American Bar Association

American College of Healthcare Executives

American Health Lawyers Association

American Society for Healthcare Risk Management

Leadership Washington Class of 2001

Maryland Chamber of Commerce

Board of Directors

Maryland Society for Healthcare Risk Management

Maryland State Bar Association

Prince George's County Bar Association

Sickle Cell Disease Association of America

Board of Directors

Selected by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the Outstanding Hospital Lawyers for 2004 and as one of the Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers for 2008

Author, "Hospitals Need More Government Funding to Aid Disaster Planning," Baltimore Business Journal, 2007

Author, Understanding the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: Key Issues, American Health Lawyers Association, 2006

Chapter author, "Directors and Officers: On Behalf of the Board," published in Ober|Kaler's The Nonprofit Legal Landscape by BoardSource, 2004

Author, "Prior Authorization Requirements and the EMTALA Final Rule: Progress?" Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 2004

Co-author with Sanford V. Teplitzky, "The Evolution of Risk Management to Corporate Compliance and Beyond," CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter, 2004

Co-author with Sanford V. Teplitzky, "Hospital 'Credentialing' of Non-physician Employees," CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter, 2004

Co-author with Sanford V. Teplitzky, "EMTALA Compliance: Practical Considerations," CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter, 2004

Presentation to the Quality Colloquium on the Campus of Harvard University on "Improving Patient Safety and Protecting the Process," 2004

Speaker, "Safeguarding Peer Review Immunity and Document Confidentiality" telephone conference sponsored by Stafford Publications

Dimensions Health Corporation, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Meyers, Billingsley, Shipley, Rodbell & Rosenbaum, Principal