Donald H. Romano
Foley & Lardner LLP
Donald Romano is of counsel and a practicing health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Romano has extensive experience counseling hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and academic medical centers and health systems on compliance, reimbursement and litigation issues involving the complex array of federal regulations governing relationships with physicians. He counsels clients on payment issues relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and regulatory compliance matters, particularly those pertaining to the Anti-Kickback Statute, the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), HIPAA, and the Medicare enrollment regulations. Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Romano was a partner in another D.C. based law firm, and prior to that he had over 25 years of experience in the Department of Health and Services, including as a senior attorney in the Office of General Counsel. In that capacity, Mr. Romano provided program advice on a wide variety of issues affecting the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and handled major litigation affecting those programs. Mr. Romano was also a division director in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), In this role, his responsibilities included the development of regulatory policy for the physician self-referral (Stark) law, the anti-mark-up payment limitation for diagnostic tests, transplant center certification and decertification, assignment and reassignment, private contracting, boutique medicine, mandatory claims filing, Provider Reimbursement Review Board appeals procedures and various statutory payment exclusions. Mr. Romano is one of the very few practicing attorneys with CMS policy-making experience.
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