Daniel Gottlieb is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Chicago office. As a member of the Health Department, Daniel represents a wide range of health industry clients, including health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies and vendors that service the industry. He specializes in advising clients on compliance with federal and state health care laws as well as representing clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions involving physicians and other health care providers.
Daniel has significant experience counseling clients on Medicare and other government program reimbursement and fraud and abuse issues. He regularly presents and authors publications for industry groups on these topics. He assists health care providers with compliance audits, government program overpayment and refund matters, the development of compliance policies and procedures and structuring transactions with referring physicians. Daniel authored the outpatient rehabilitation chapter of A Guide to Complying with Stark Physician Self-Referral Rules. He also wrote an article on Medicare's physician supervision requirements for diagnostic tests that appeared in the Summer 2001 issue of The Rap Sheet, a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association, and an article regarding health care regulatory requirements affecting the provision of physical therapist services by a physician group for the May-June 2003 issue of Orthopedic Technology Review.
Daniel advises health care industry clients on compliance with HIPAA and other federal and state health information privacy laws. On the transactional side of his practice, Daniel structures health information database licenses and other transactions involving the disclosure of health information. Daniel speaks and writes extensively about privacy issues, including a presentation to the Health Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association in November 2009 regarding the health information privacy and security provisions of the HITECH Act.
During law school, Daniel earned Order of the Coif. He was also an associate note and comment editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.
After completing his bachelor's degree, Daniel was staff associate for the government affairs, public affairs and marketing departments of Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago. At Mount Sinai, he worked extensively on Illinois Medicaid and other federal, state and local health care issues.
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1999
- University of Michigan, B.A., 1994
