Areas of Practice
Mr. Diaz concentrates his practice in health law, health care compliance, and health care transactional matters.

Representative Experience
Mr. Diaz represents a wide variety of health care organizations, including hospitals, physician organizations, integrated delivery systems, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, hospices, and health plans, with an emphasis in regulatory, compliance and transactional matters.

He has served as lead counsel in the following representations:

• Defense of health care organizations in investigations and prosecutions by federal, state, and local health care regulatory and other governmental agencies; counseling of health care organizations in fraud and abuse, Stark, false claims, billing and reimbursement, EMTALA, licensing, managed care, peer review, treatment of homeless patients, and other regulatory and compliance matters.

• Structure and negotiation of joint ventures, acquisitions, affiliations, contracts, and other transactions between and among hospitals, physicians, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, independent practice associations, home health agencies, and managed care plans.

• Formation of hospital-physician integrated delivery systems, physician organizations, and other provider networks.

Memberships, Awards and Activities
Named one of the country’s 12 "Outstanding Hospital Lawyers" by Nightingale’s Healthcare News, 2007

Highest rating (AV) by peers—Martindale Hubbell Legal Rating Service

State Bar of California

American Health Lawyers Association

Prior Experience
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Adjunct Professor of Law, Health Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Adjunct Professor of Law, Health Law, Loyola University School of Law

Lecturer, Health Care Law for Managers and Entrepreneurs, University of California, Irvine – Executive MBA Program

Staff Counsel, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C.

Publications and Presentations
Speaker, American Health Lawyers Association

Speaker, Health Care Compliance Association

Speaker, Hospital Association of Southern California

Speaker, California Hospital Association

"Termination of a Physician Contract: Fair Procedure Under Potvin v. Metropolitan Life," with M. Ty, Managed Care Interface, Vol. 13, No.11, November 2000

"Legal Considerations," Subacute Care: Redefining Healthcare, with L. Hyatt, pps. 129-146, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995

"The Maxicare Bankruptcy: Implications for Health Care Providers," California Hospitals and Health Systems Insight, Vol 14, No. 5, April 16, 1990

Education
J.D., UCLA School of Law

B.A., with honors, University of California, Santa Barbara