Representative Experience
Ms. Drummy has experience working with a number of health care entities, including hospitals, specialty hospitals (psychiatric, cancer, long-term care and rehabilitation, teaching hospitals), skilled nursing facilities, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), home health agencies, dialysis centers, organ procurement agencies, medical groups, individual physicians, allied professionals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, ambulance companies, Medicare carriers and medical equipment and product suppliers. She has handled matters involving various federal and California agencies, including the Department of Health & Human Services and the California Departments of Health, Mental Health, Social Services and Education.

She has extensive experience in the regulatory, transactional and litigation aspects of health care law including:

• the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including Short-Doyle MediCal;
• contract negotiation and dispute resolution respecting county mental health programs;
• facility and physician licensing, accreditation, certification, decertification and suspensions;
• federal and state anti-fraud/abuse and self-referral laws, as well as designing and conducting related compliance audits;
• hospital acquisitions, mergers, consolidations, and other affiliations for nonprofit and for-profit entities;
• hospital and physician contracts, joint ventures and other affiliations;
• state and federal emergency department anti-dumping laws;
• Medicare and Medicaid managed care, including HMOs, PPOs;
• utilization review and quality assurance;
• medical records;
• accounts receivable financing programs;
• corporate practice of medicine doctrines;
• bankruptcy proceedings involving health care entities;
• other agencies affecting health care entities, such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and
• general administrative law and administrative appeals.

Prior Experience
Partner, Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP

Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery

Partner, Memel, Jacobs, Pierno, Gersh & Ellsworth

Publications and Presentations
American Bar Association, “Medicare 1998 – What You Need to Know Now,” Medicare Issues in Due Diligence: November 1998

Surgical Services Management, May 1997, “The Shift to For-Profit”

California Society of CPAs, October 1994, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, “CPA Beware: Compliance and Liability Issues”

Lorman Business Center, September 1994, Los Angeles, California, “Confidentiality of Medical Records” (Seminar organizer and presenter)

National Healthcare Lawyers Association, April 1994, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Medicare Peer Review Organization” (MCLE credit)

Southern California Fire Chiefs, March 1994, Los Angeles, California, “Health Care Reform Initiatives”

California Ambulance Association, February 1994, Palm Springs, California, “Health Care Reform and Its Application to Ambulance Providers”

Los Angeles County Fire Chiefs, January 1994, La Canada/Flintridge, California, “Health Care Reform and Its Application to Public Governmental Health Care Providers”

Has spoken on health law related issues at the invitation of various clients, including a meeting of 40 Medical Directors of a publicly traded rehabilitation hospital company in Washington, D.C. (March 1994), and several industry groups, including the Los Angeles County Bar Association Health law Section, UCLA Extension, League of Women Voters, and the Orange County Home Health Association

Memberships and Activities
California Bar Association

American Health Lawyers Association

Honors
Selected to "Super Lawyers," Southern California Law & Politics, 2005, 2006, 2008

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Health Care Law by Woodward/White, 2008

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2007

Education
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977

• Moot Court Honors Program
  
• Executive Editor, UCLA-Alaska Law Review
  
• Judicial Internship, U.S. District Court, Judge Harry Pregerson, Central District, California, 1976

M.A., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974

B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1973