Robin L. Nagele, Esquire 

Robin Locke Nagele has a national healthcare litigation and consulting practice, in which she represents, in complex commercial, regulatory and antitrust matters, proprietary and not-for-profit health care providers, multi-hospital systems, integrated delivery systems, academic/teaching medical centers, and ancillary service providers, along with their medical, executive and corporate leadership.

Ms. Nagele’s antitrust and trade regulation practice focuses on complex medical staff injunctive and damages litigation, credentialing/privileging strategic planning and dispute resolution, exclusive contracts, economic credentialing, board and physician conflicts of interest, medical staff appointment/reappointment criteria and processes, medical staff closures, intra-hospital corrective action and fair hearing processes, medical staff/board governance, strategic planning and fiduciary oversight.

Ms. Nagele’s commercial healthcare litigation practice involves complex business and regulatory disputes such as the defense of class action “charity care” litigation against hospitals, actions for equitable relief and damages arising out of hospital-physician joint ventures and other business arrangements, healthcare technology litigation and civil qui tam litigation.

Ms. Nagele’s healthcare consulting and compliance practice covers a wide range of federal and state regulatory issues, including anti-kickback, Stark and other fraud and abuse issues, not-for-profit governance, licensing requirements, federal and state payor regulations, EMTALA, HIPAA, HCQIA, and Patient Safety and Quality mandates.

Ms. Nagele speaks nationally on healthcare issues for American Health Lawyers Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, The Governance Institute, and other healthcare provider organizations and entities, and has written extensively for national publications.

Bar Membership

• Pennsylvania

Affiliations

• Senior Fellow in the Jefferson School of Population Health
• Vice Chair for Education of the AHLA's Medical Staff Credentialing and Peer Review Practice Group