Overview
Patrick is a healthcare and litigation attorney with extensive experience advising healthcare providers, organizations, and individuals on a wide range of complex legal matters. With a deep understanding of the ever-evolving healthcare industry, Patrick offers strategic counsel to help clients navigate regulatory challenges, compliance issues, risk management, and litigation.
Patrick regularly represents clients on both substantive and procedural aspects of health facility regulation, such as licensure and certification surveys, compliance, Medicare/Medicaid, payment matters, HIPAA, fraud and abuse, and professional liability. Patrick also has significant experience in representing healthcare clients before state and federal regulatory agencies, including in Change in Effective Control and Certificate of Need proceedings and throughout Hospital Conversions Act review.
Patrick is also a member of the firm’s Cannabis Practice Group, where he has experience assisting clients navigate licensing, regulatory, and compliance issues.
Experience
- Patrick has obtained numerous successful results on behalf of nursing facilities appealing civil monetary penalties in both the informal dispute resolution process and before Administrative Law Judges.
- Patrick has successfully defended healthcare providers in numerous regulatory and licensing proceedings.
- Patrick has assisted clients through multiple Hospital Conversion Act reviews.
- Patrick successfully gained state regulatory approval for the sale of a non-profit healthcare entity to a for-profit buyer.
- Patrick has successfully advised healthcare clients with practice organization to comply with Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute.
- Assisted in representation of general contractor in a structure collapse personal injury action filed in state and federal court.
- Assisted in representation of nationwide manufacturer of windows in federal action alleging defective product resulting in dismissal of the action.
- Successfully mediated several catastrophic personal injury automobile accidents with beneficial outcomes for clients.
Credentials
- University of Massachusetts School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2018)
- University of Connecticut (B.A., 2011)
- Rhode Island
- U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
- Named a Rhode Island Rising Star by Super Lawyers, 2024.
- Member, American Health Law Association
- Member, Rhode Island Bar Association
- Member, Newport County Bar Association
