Steve Weiner is a member and chairman of the Health Law Practice of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., a firm with offices in Boston, MA, Stamford, CT, New York City, NY, Washington, DC, Palo Alto, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA and London, UK.

He has had over thirty years of experience in the health care field as a policy maker, educator and attorney. He represents health care services providers in a broad array of legal matters, including strategic positioning; structuring payor strategies and clinical integration initiatives; mergers, acquisitions, strategic affiliations, “demergers,” joint venture arrangements, including between tax-exempt and for-profit organizations; developing, monitoring and restructuring relationships between hospitals and physicians; regulatory and reimbursement matters, including licensure, certification and determination (certificate) of need proceedings, managed care contracting, Medicare reimbursement and appeals, including fraud and abuse and Stark advice, and Medicaid and uncompensated care pool reimbursement; general contracting; and, for academic medical centers specifically, clinical research, conflict of interest, relationships with affiliated medical schools and relationships with federally qualified community health centers. Steve has been involved in efforts to restructure the uncompensated care pool in Massachusetts and in the development of the landmark Massachusetts health care reform legislation; has had responsibility for assisting in the development of the quality oversight regulatory structure for a new health care environment in one of the Gulf States in the Middle East; and works extensively with the U.S. Department of Defense on matters relating to the TRICARE Prime benefit and the operations of the U.S. Family Health Plan program.

Steve currently serves as President of the HealthWell Foundation a tax-exempt organization that provides patient assistance and premium support for persons receiving costly medical treatment and drug therapies.  He is also a Trustee and chairs the Compensation Committee of The Physicians at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Inc., the “parent” of the various faculty practice plans associated with Tufts-New England Medical Center, the principal teaching affiliate of Tufts Medical School.

Steve has served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission, special assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts for health policy, Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, Director of the Boston University Center for Law and Health Sciences, and visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and Boston University School of Law. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Suffolk University School of Law, where he teaches a course on corporate transactions in health care. He lectures regularly on health care issues and is often quoted in the media on current developments and trends in the health care field.

Steve has been a member of the boards of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, an incorporator of Massachusetts General Hospital and of Partners HealthCare System, Inc., a Director of the Massachusetts AIDS Action Committee and of the Massachusetts Chapter of the HealthCare Financial Managers Association, and a member of the House of Delegates of the Massachusetts Easter Seal Society. Steve is a member of the Board of Trustees and has served as Treasurer of The Boston Ballet, and is a member of the boards of The Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, OperaBoston and the New England Conservatory Lab Charter School Foundation (a support organization to a charter school developed in conjunction with the New England Conservatory of Music). Steve has been listed in the health law section of The Best Lawyers in America since that section of the publication originated, has been featured in Chambers USA, and is listed in Who’s Who in America.