In today’s rapidly changing enforcement and regulatory environment, healthcare law firms play a pivotal role in helping medical providers navigate complex laws and regulations across the industry through strategic advocacy, specialized guidance and legal knowledge.
The arena of healthcare law has witnessed a turbulent ride in the last few years with several healthcare law firms significantly contributing to the upliftment of healthcare businesses. One such law firm is Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, PC, a boutique, personal service health law firm offering legal solutions predominantly to physicians and physician entities, health care systems, and provider networks, and also to laboratories, disease management and clinical guidelines vendors, diagnostic testing entities, billing companies and others who seek to do business with physicians.
Alice G. Gosfield: The Visionary Lawyer
The firm was launched in 1986 by Alice G. Gosfield, a seasoned attorney who brings over 50 years of experience in the legal industry. Her entire career has focused on health law with an emphasis on the representation of physicians and their group configurations.
A graduate from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1970, Ms. Gosfield has made a name for herself by serving various positions prior to establishing her firm. While she had wanted to be a diplomat, the War in VietNam scuttled that wish. She got a summer job in Philadelphia, with the Health Law Project, when health law wasn’t even a recognized discipline. Ms. Gosfield has grown up working in his father’s office who was a physician. Hailing from a healthcare background she knew much more about medicine and health care than about the law. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 1973 with a Juris Doctor degree.
Ms. Gosfield’s illustrious career is a testament to her resilience and unwavering determination. She served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance from 1998 to 2002 and served on the Board for twelve years from 1992 to 2003. Between 2004 and 2013, Ms. Gosfield also worked as the Chairman of the Board for the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute. She was President of the National Health Lawyers Association (now the American Health Law Association) from 1992-1993.
From Attorney to Trailblazing: Journey through Decades
Her professional journey has been punctuated with several awards and accolades. She was named as one of the Top Thirty Health Lawyers in the Country in 2007 by the Best of the Best and among the Top Twenty-five Health Lawyers in the Country in their second and last listing in 2009. Ms. Gosfield was also named the first Health Lawyer of the Year (Philadelphia) for 2010 by the Best Lawyers in America. Adding value, in a dynamic and ever-evolving role, Ms. Gosfield has successfully positioned her firm among the leading health law firms in the country with multiple other accolades.
Defeating Challenges
From neophyte attorney to starting her own law firm, the journey wasn’t easy for Ms. Gosfield. “In the beginning physicians didn’t even know they needed a lawyer like me. I had to create my market and then market to my market. Business was very, very slow the first ten years and then it took off.” Ms. Gosfield practiced alone the first two years after the firm’s inception in 1986 and after a number of associates worked with her over the years until 2003, she then was joined by her son, Daniel Shay who has served as a colleague for the last twenty years. Navigating all complexities, Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, under their leadership has shattered the glass ceilings and carved out its own niche in the industry.
A Boutique, Personal Service Health Law Firm
Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, PC has its focus deeply underpinned in health care. With clients across every state, the firm advises on problems involving a range of issues, including Medicare reimbursement, fraud and abuse avoidance and compliance including all aspects of Stark and anti-kickback, Medicare and Medicaid, managed care contracting, medical staff issues and business relationships between hospitals and physicians. Dan Shay has a particular emphasis on HIPAA privacy, electronic health record licenses, social media, patient portals and other technology based matters. They both work on general health care business contracts including employment contracts.
Setting New Standards: Striving For Excellence
What truly differentiates Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, PC from big firms is their specialized guidance and incredibly efficient service that, too, at rates well below market for their expertise. “We treat the clients the way we would want to be treated. We are high touch and high service. This is our guiding philosophy.”
Reaching the Next Milestone: Future Vision
With foundation stones of knowledge, integrity and trust, Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, PC is committed to provide excellent legal service throughout the country. Looking ahead in the future, the firm aims to expand their operations and work with health systems on matters involving physicians. They also have multiple law firms as clients, whom they back up on technical issues and they seek to do more of that. They also envision to continue to reach out to more clients and support them with specialized guidance on matters involving health law and health care regulation.
Ms. Gosfield’s unusual professional journey tells a saga of resilience, excellence and profound impact, reshaping the contours of success.
Her insights and candid revelation offer meaningful guidance to the aspiring lawyers and entrepreneurs ready to embark on a new voyage.
