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Cynthia  Y.  Reisz
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Nashville
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Education
Vanderbilt University - J.D., 1986
Vanderbilt University - B.A., 1980

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1986

Memberships
American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Business Law and Health Law)
American Health Lawyers Association (Planning committee, 2012 Physicians and Physician Organizations program; Past chair, Physician Organizations Practice Group)

Honors & Distinctions
Listed in: Best Lawyers®; Chambers USA; Nashville Business Journal's "Best of the Bar," "Health Care 100" and "Health Care Heroes;" Nashville Medical News InCharge Healthcare 2012; Business Tennessee's "Best 150 Lawyers" and "Best 101 Lawyers;" Mid-South Super Lawyers; Nashville Post "Nashville's 101 Top Lawyers" 2011
Participant, American Health Lawyers Association’s Stark Convener, 2009
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Delta Phi
Order of the Coif
Articles editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1985-1986

Publications
"Use of Non-Competition Covenants in Physician Employment Relationships," Representing Physicians Handbook, American Health Lawyers Association, 2009 (Co-author with Philip Berg).
"Government Expands Spotlight to Physicians Receiving Financial Benefits from Medical Device Makers," AHLA Physician Organizations (March 2009) (Co-author with Brian Roark).



Cindy Reisz is a Member of the firm's Healthcare Industry and Corporate and Securities Practice Areas. Her practice involves representing hospitals, ancillary service providers and large physician groups in transactions and in regulatory/operational matters. Ms. Reisz joined the firm in 1986, the same year she received her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, where she was Order of the Coif and articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1980 with a B.A. degree (magna cum laude).

Ms. Reisz is a member of the American Bar Association's Section on Business Law and Section on Health Law and is the past chair of the Physician Organizations Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). Ms. Reisz previously served as a member of the board of directors of the Nashville Health Care Council and is a past chair of the Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. She has written and lectured on issues of interest to healthcare providers, including fraud and abuse, structuring transactions, disease management, economic decredentialing and other healthcare related issues. In addition, Ms. Reisz, along with other members of the Healthcare Industry Practice Area, publishes a client newsletter on health law issues. From 2005-2006, Ms. Reisz was co-chair of an AHLA Task Force that wrote a handbook on representing physicians.

Ms. Reisz's legal experience includes:
  • Representation of healthcare providers in structuring joint ventures, management relationships and provider networks for the provision of various healthcare services
  • Analysis of fraud and abuse and other regulatory issues arising in structuring joint ventures and in operational matters affecting healthcare providers
  • Review of various operational issues applicable to healthcare facilities, such as licensing, Medicare certification, medical staff bylaws and Medicare reimbursement matters
  • Representing healthcare companies in Medicare audits and overpayment disputes
  • Successful representation of both purchasers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions of healthcare companies
  • Development and implementation of corporate compliance programs
  • Negotiation of disease management and care enhancement service agreements with health plans and self-insured employers
  • Representation of physician group practices regarding fraud and abuse, physician self-referral and fee-splitting issues, including structuring physician financial arrangements and compensation methodologies