Debra A. Silverman
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone 516-393-2225
Fax 516-466-5964
dsilverman@gwtlaw.com |
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Practice Groups
Business
Health Care
HIPAA Compliance
Insurance Regulatory
Year Joined
1988
Education
University of California, Hastings College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1985);
Princeton University (A.B., cum laude, 1982)
Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1986
Court Admission(s)
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association;
American Bar Association (Health Law Section)
Biography
Debra A. Silverman is a Partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C. She joined the firm in 1988 and is a member of the Health Care Practice Group.
Ms. Silverman specializes in representing institutional clients, including teaching and community hospitals, faculty practice plans and physician group practices, with an emphasis on managed care contracting, physician arrangements, antitrust, medical staff and regulatory matters.
Ms. Silverman administers the firm’s managed care group, which has reviewed and negotiated several hundred managed care agreements. She also handles direct negotiations with major managed care organizations, including Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Oxford Health Plans, Aetna, GHI, United Healthcare, Health Net and HIP, for both fee-for-service and full risk arrangements, including two of the largest risk agreements in New York State.
A frequent lecturer for the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) on managed care issues, Ms. Silverman was also a contributing author of the New York Health Law Update.
Ms. Silverman graduated cum laude both from Princeton University in 1982 and from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1985. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association. |
