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TODD C. BROWER
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Todd Brower provides legal counsel to hospitals, physicians and physician groups, home health agencies and other health care institutions, with an emphasis on regulatory and corporate compliance, acquisitions, affiliations, joint venturing, licensing and reimbursement. Todd also works extensively with trustees of hospitals and other nonprofits on board improvement and education. Todd also applies his extensive health law experience in the representation of medical staffs, IPAs and individual physicians and practitioners in contractual and disciplinary matters, group practice formations, HIPAA and corporate compliance. |
| PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES |
Hospital Association's Hospital Biomedical Ethics Legal Resource Manual and the Legal Reference Manual for the Release of Health Record Information in New Jersey, published by the New Jersey Hospital Association in cooperation with the New Jersey Health Information Management Association. Todd is a frequent lecturer on health law legal issues and is a member of the Health Information Compliance Insider's Board of Advisors, a publication to which he has been a regular contributor. He also wrote "Getting Your Feet Wet: Why Small Hospitals Should Move Cautiously Before Taking the Plunge into a Larger Health Care System" for Hospitals and Health Care Networks, March 2010; "A New Era for Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures," for EndoEconomics, Spring 2009; "Trustees in the Cross-fire (co-authored), New Jersey Law Journal, July 2007; and "Legal Update: How to Comply with the Red Flags Rule," Outpatient Surgery Magazine, October 2009.
Todd is a frequent lecturer on a wide array of health law issues. Some recent presentations include:

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"Competitive Analysis of the Home Health Care Market" - March 2010 |

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"Hospital Corporate Compliance - Arrangements Training" - January 2009 |

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"Redesigning IRS Form 990 and Governance Implication: Are You Ready?" - Home Care Association of New Jersey, Feburary 2009 |

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"Everything You Need to Know About Harassment in the Workplace" - MetroWest IPA Saint Barnabas Office Managers Association - April 2009 |

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"Contracts 101" - Home Care Association Annual Meeting - April 2009 |

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"Credentiality Dilemmas: A Legal Perspective" - NAMSS, Monmouth County Chapter, CentraState Medical Center, July 2009 |

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"Red Flags Rule & The HITECH Act" - MetroWest IPA - July 2009 |

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"Trustee Orientation: The Medical Staff and Legal Issues" - East Orange General Hospital - September 2009 |

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"Red Flags Rule - Identity Theft Prevention Programs" - Physician Office Managers Association - November 2009 |
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| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
Todd is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. He has served as the chairman of Essex Valley Healthcare, Inc. and East Orange General Hospital. Todd currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. and the East Orange General Hospital Foundation. He has also served as the chair of Region Five to the New Jersey Hospital Association's Council on Hospital Governance. He has also served as a board member and president of the Glen Ridge Community Fund. He was profiled in the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business for his "strong practice advising hospitals and other healthcare clients."
He was described as an "incredibly thoughtful guy, which makes him a fine, fine lawyer."
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| PUBLISHED OR NOTEWORTHY DECISIONS |

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Petrocco v. Dover Gen. Hosp., 273 N.J. Super. 501 (App. Div. 1994); |

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Bundy v. Sinopoli, 243 N.J. Super. 563 (Law Div. 1990); |

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Saint Barnabas Med. Ctr. v. New Jersey Hosp. Rate Setting Comm'n, 214 N.J. Super. 599 (App. Div. 1987); |

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Saint Barnabas Med. Ctr. v. Essex County, 211 N.J. Super. 488 (Law Div. 1986), 216 N.J. Super. 161 (App. Div. 1987), 111 N.J. 67 (1988); |

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Saint Barnabas Med. Ctr. v. New Jersey Hosp. Rate Setting Comm'n, 250 N.J. Super. 132 (App. Div. 1991).
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| PRACTICE AREAS |
Health Law
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| EDUCATION |
Emory University,
B.A., 1980
Saint Louis University
School of Law, J.D., 1985
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| BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS |
New Jersey
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