Steven Mansfield Shaber

Partner

Areas of Experience

Services
Administrative Law
General Litigation
Health Law
Legislative & Regulatory
Mediation/Arbitration
Professional Liability/Licensing
Industries
Government
Health Care
Nonprofits

Education

Duke University, JD, 1976

Wabash College, BA, 1973, magna cum laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Professional and Community Activities

North Carolina Medical Society, Physician Hospital Issues Committee, Consultant, 2008-2009

North Carolina Bar Association, Administrative Law Section Council, Chair, 2004-2005

Tenth Judicial District Bar, Attorney Fee Dispute Resolution Committee, Chair, 1999-2003

North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys, President, 1992

American Health Lawyers Association, Member

Recent Publications

Notable Accomplishments

Jurisdictions Licensed

301 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1900, Raleigh, NC 27601	t: 919.783.2906	\|	email
P.O. Box 1801, Raleigh, NC 27602-1801	f: 919.783.1075	\|	vcard

Steve has spent his entire career in health law -- first with the North Carolina Attorney General's Office and, since 1985, in private practice. His clients range from large hospitals to sole practitioners. Most of his work focuses on Medicare and Medicaid fraud & abuse, false claims, hospital medical staff matters, and professional licensing board cases. His cases have involved patient deaths, million-dollar claims for recoupment, and other urgent matters. Steve has also helped providers with a number of innovative business transactions. He speaks frequently to various professional organizations, including the North Carolina Psychological Association, the North Carolina Medical Society, and the North Carolina Hospital Association.

Representative Experience

Reimbursement, Fraud and Abuse - 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 a private 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. On behalf of another physician, he and co-counsel at Poyner Spruill persuaded the Medicare Program Safeguard Contractor to reduce its claim from $1,900,000 to $7,000. He regularly handles hearings before Medicare's administrative law judges. In one hearing, the ALJ reduced the government's claim to zero.

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Prior Legal Experience

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.