Maureen E. Corcoran

Maureen Corcoran is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin's San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Ms. Corcoran's practice focuses on the health care and life sciences industry, where she advises clients on the full range of legal issues. Her transactional and regulatory practice includes developing and implementing corporate compliance programs; counseling on fraud and abuse; advising on transactions that involve state or federal healthcare regulation. She also provides general corporate and transactional advice to health care companies and advice on health law regulation as well as corporate mergers and acquisition.

The wide range of health industry clients Ms. Corcoran has represented includes HMOs, health insurers, managed care companies, hospitals and hospital systems, physician organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, information technology providers, chain pharmacies, large employer health plans, clinical laboratories, long term care facilities, dialysis providers, clinical research organizations, health improvement research organizations, community clinics, hospice and medical device companies, among others.  She regularly provides counsel on fraud and abuse; state regulation of health care providers and insurers;  Medicare Part D; HIPAA; and ERISA issues for health benefit plans.  In 2005, she moderated a panel for the American Health Lawyers Association on current issues in drugs and devices with compliance officers from large manufacturers and representatives from the Office of the Inspector General.

Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Ms. Corcoran was a partner and chair of the Health Care Practice team at the firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. She has also served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education, and as Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is a frequent lecturer before national healthcare organizations on issues pertaining to the health law field and has published numerous articles.

Education

• J.D. University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 1979
• M.A., University of Iowa
• B.A., University of Iowa

Admissions

• California

Memberships

• Member, U.C. Hastings College of the Law Board of Directors, 1993-2005
• Director Emeritus, St. Luke's Hospital Board of Directors

Articles

• "Managed Care Contracting: Advising the Managed Care Organization;" Author, BNA Portfolio Health and Business Series, May 1996

Speeches

• "Issues Involving Drugs and Devices," American Health Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting, June 2005, moderator of panel discussing fraud and abuse issues facing pharmaceutical manufacturers and device companies
• "Stem Cell Research: Understanding California Prop 71 Funding," International BioMed Society, February 2005
• "Fundamentals of Managed Care Law." AHLA/AHIP Law Conference for Health Plans, Providers and Insurers, May 2004
• "HIPAA Update: Privacy and Security Issues," AHLA Managed Care Law Conference, May 2002
• "Emerging Theories of Liability and Defenses Concerning Managed Care Entities," AHLA Annual Meeting, June 2000
• "Pharmacy Managed Care: The Antikickback Laws," ABA and AAHP Annual Law Conference, April 1999
• "Provider Financial Risk Assumption, Regulatory Issues and Product Design," National Health Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting, Dallas, June 1997
• "Update on Recent Managed Care Case Law," First Circuit Judicial Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, September 1997
• "Managed Care Fiduciary and ERISA Preemption Analysis," American Association of Health Plans, San Diego, April 1997
• "Health Benefit Product Design for Risk Sharing and Capitation," NHLA Annual Meeting, June 1995