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

Todd co-authored the 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 has served as a member of the Health Information Compliance Insider's Board of Advisors and has regularly contributed to various publications concerning issues affecting the health care industry.  He wrote “Getting Your Feet Wet: Why small hospitals should move cautiously before taking the plunge into a larger health care system.” for Hospitals & Health 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:
 

• “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Impact on the Home Health,” Home Care Association of New Jersey 2011 Annual Conference, June 2011

• “Look Before You Leap:  Understanding Managed Care Contracts,” Home Health Care Association of New Jersey, May 2011

• “Keeping Peer Review Away From The Plaintiff’s Attorney:  Making Peer Review a Meaningful Non-Punitive Process” and “Disruptive Physicians:  The Bad, The Ugly and the Very Ugly,” NJSAMSS 18^th Annual Education Conference, April 2011

• "Recent Developments in Provider - Payer Disputes: Assignment of Benefits, Prompt Pay, Waiver of Co-payments and More," Saint Barnabas - Metrowest IPA, March 2011

• “It’s a ‘HITECH’ World: The New HIPAA Requirements,” May 2010

• “Competitive Analysis of the Home Health Care Market Today,” March 2010     

• "Hospital Corporate Compliance - Arrangements Training," January 2009

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

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

• "Contracts 101," Home Care Association Annual Meeting, April 2009

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

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

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

• "Red Flags Rule - Identity Theft Prevention Programs," Physician Office Managers Association, November 2009

PUBLISHED OR NOTEWORTHY DECISIONS

• Petrocco v. Dover Gen. Hosp., 273 N.J. Super. 501 (App. Div. 1994);
• Bundy v. Sinopoli, 243 N.J. Super. 563 (Law Div. 1990);
• Saint Barnabas Med. Ctr. v. New Jersey Hosp. Rate Setting Comm'n, 214 N.J. Super. 599 (App. Div. 1987);
• 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);
• Saint Barnabas Med. Ctr. v. New Jersey Hosp. Rate Setting Comm'n, 250 N.J. Super. 132 (App. Div. 1991)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Todd is an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School.  He currently serves as the chairman of The Foundation for East Orange General Hospital.  He has also served as the chairman of Essex Valley Healthcare, Inc., East Orange General Hospital and Region Five of the New Jersey Hospital Association's Council on Hospital Governance; as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association, Inc.  In addition, he has served as a board member and president of the Glen Ridge Community Fund. Todd has been selected by his peers as among the Best Lawyers 2012 in Health Care Law. He was cited in Chambers USA as the "'out and out' dean of the Bar in healthcare."