Michele A. Masucci
Partner
Practice Group Leader, Health Services

Practice Areas

Experience

Michele Masucci joined Nixon Peabody in May 2004, following her tenure as a partner in the Health Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery’s New York office. Ms. Masucci represents a wide variety of for-profit health care providers with particular experience working with the federal health care reform legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA) enacted in 2010, out-of-state clients attempting to navigate the New York regulatory environment, and acting as regulatory counsel in connection with mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Masucci acts as general and special health care regulatory counsel for numerous health care companies, including specialty pharmacies, dialysis companies, retail based clinics, medi-spas, imaging companies, ambulatory surgery companies, and large physician practices. She frequently provides health care regulatory advice in connection with mergers and acquisitions and financing arrangements, and has represented physicians in connection with joint ventures with  business corporations, as well as tax-exempt hospitals. She has represented physicians and physician groups in their organization and in connection with ongoing business and regulatory issues, including formation and buy-sell agreements, and advises them regularly on fraud and abuse and Stark issues. She also has experience working with health care providers on insolvency and bankruptcy matters. Ms. Masucci is a member of the firm’s Health Care Transactions team and Life Sciences team.

Ms. Masucci has lectured extensively on transactional and managed care issues and HIPAA compliance matters. Earlier in her career, she was in-house legal counsel at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York.

Publications and presentations

• “The Latest CDC Guidance for Healthcare Employers Flu Season,” Health Lawyers Weekly, October 2, 2009.  (Coauthored with David Kolek, Michael I. Schnipper, and Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum)
• “Waiver of Health Care Co-Payments and Deductibles,” New York Law Journal, June 25, 2009. (Author)
• “Medical Tourism Is the Globalization of the American Operating Room,” New York Law Journal, December 17, 2007. (Author)

Admissions

Ms. Masucci is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.
Brown University, B.A.

Affiliations

Ms. Masucci is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association. Ms. Masucci is also on the Board of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Foundation.