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Areas of
Practice
Health Law, Administrative Law, Civil Litigation, Legislative Representation
Education
J.D., Duke University,
1976
B.A., Wabash College,
Magna Cum Laude, 1973
Representative Experience
Mr.
Shaber represents physicians, hospitals and others in disputes with the
government, payors, and other providers.
He
represents providers having problems with Medicare, Medicaid, the OIG, and
private insurers regarding possible underpayments, overpayments, fraud and
abuse, and corporate compliance. On behalf of a large hospital, he
recovered $1.3 million dollars in underpayments by an insurance company. On
behalf of an individual physician, he persuaded the OIG to treat a $1.0
million overpayment as a civil matter, and helped the physician avoid
exclusion from Medicare.
He
represents licensees in hearings before the N.C. Medical Board, the N.C.
Pharmacy Board, the N.C. Psychology Board, and others. He handles hospital
medical staff hearings, sometimes representing the physician, sometimes the
medical staff, and sometimes serving as the hearing officer. He has handled
cases involving patient deaths, sexual misconduct, adulterated drugs,
substance abuse, professional competence, and fraud.
He
also represents providers in business disputes with other providers. He
organized several small physician practices into a company that won the
right to develop a new surgical center. He represented a specialty surgical
practice that obtained exclusive rights to do certain procedures at a large
hospital.
Much
of his work is for non-profits. He chairs the research ethics committee (IRB)
for an international medical research organization, and he has traveled to
research sites at rural hospitals and urban slums in Africa and Asia.
He
lobbies for various children’s services organizations in North Carolina, and
he chaired the committee that rewrote the State’s adoptions law.
While
a N.C. Assistant Attorney General, he represented the State in federal class
action lawsuits involving hundreds of millions of dollars. He argued and
helped win Lassiter vs. Department of Social Services in the United States
Supreme Court, on behalf of the State as amicus curiae.
Professional/Community Activities
N.C. Society of
Health Care Attorneys, President, 1992
Tenth Judicial
District Bar, Attorney Fee Dispute Resolution Committee, Chair,
1999-2003
North
Carolina Bar Association, Administrative Law
Section Council, Chair, 2004-2005
American Health Lawyers Association, Member
Notable Accomplishments
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® (Administrative Law), 2008
Ranked among Law & Politics magazine's
North Carolina “Super Lawyers” (Health Care Law), 2006
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