Ms. Smith’s practice involves a wide range of general health care matters, focusing primarily on transactional and regulatory issues facing health care providers. Ms. Smith has advised hospitals and other healthcare providers regarding state and federal laws and policies, in the areas of: fraud and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid, tax-exemption, privacy, licensing, medical staff issues and physician relations, health system governance, contracts, and hospital-physician relations and arrangements such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.