Representative Experience
STEVE LIPTON focuses his practice on general hospital representation, health care transactions, regulatory and compliance matters and disaster preparedness.

General Health Care Matters include corporate governance; nonprofit and exempt organizations; hospital-physician arrangements; hospital operations, policies and procedure; and medical groups representation.

Health Care Transaction Matters include hospital acquisitions and ambulatory care providers (imaging, surgery, radiation oncology, home health, urgent care, etc.).

Health Care Regulatory and Compliance Matters include fraud and abuse and anti-referral laws; licensing and certification matters; provider-based designation; investigations for violations of patient anti-dumping laws; and compliance matters.

Mr. Lipton’s practice includes a subspecialty in EMTALA matters, including representing numerous hospitals, health systems and physicians in responding to federal investigations for violations of patient dumping laws. Mr. Lipton is the author of "A Guide to Patent Anti-Dumping Laws" published by California Hospital Association, now in its 5th edition. Mr. Lipton is a frequent speaker on EMTALA matters for health care associations, hospitals, public agencies and physicians.

Disaster Preparedness includes legal standards for disaster plans and legal issues related to operating facilities and providing services in disaster situations. Experience includes (i) presentation at the California Hospital Association Conference on Disaster Preparedness, including the publication of two papers on the regulatory requirements for hospital disaster plans and on EMTALA compliance during an emergency situation September 2006); (ii) participation in the planning of, and speaking at, the Public Health Law Program conference on Legal Preparedness for Pandemic Flu (April 2006); (iii) presentation on legal issues in disaster preparedness, HFMA No. California Chapter (March 2006); and (iv) Disaster Preparedness for Compliance Offices, Health Care Compliance Association Annual Meeting (scheduled April 2007).

Prior Experience
Staff counsel, California State Assembly Health Committee, 1973-1977

Memberships and Activities
Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, for a graduate seminar – Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery (PH 225), 2004-2007

Adjunct professor, University of Southern California School for Public Administration Program, teaching a graduate course on legal issues in health care delivery, 1984-1994

California State Bar Association, Health Law Committee (Member, 2003-5; Co-Chair, 2005-6)

Regional Executive (Region 11), Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), (2001-2002) and Northern California Chapter, HFMA (President, 1996-7; Board Member, 1989-1999)

Joint Los Angeles County Bar Association/Los Angeles County Medical Association Committee on Biomedical Ethics, former charter member

Los Angeles County Bar Association Bioethics Committee (former Chair)

California Society of Healthcare Attorneys (former member of the Board of Directors)

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2005-2006

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Health Care Law by Woodward/White, 2001-2002; 2003-2004; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008

Named as a Northern California “Super Lawyer,” Northern California Law & Politics, 2006

Education
J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1971

A.B., UCLA, 1968