Debra Silverman

Experience

1. Partner Director

   Garfunkel Wild, P.C

   Jan 1988 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Ms. Silverman is a member of the Business, Health Care, HIPAA Compliance and Insurance Regulatory practice groups. She represents hospital systems, teaching and community hospitals, faculty practice plans and physician group practices, with an emphasis on managed care contracting, health care delivery networks, accountable care organizations, clinical integration, physician arrangements, antitrust and regulatory matters.Along with administering the firm’s managed care group, she handles direct negotiations with major managed care organizations (including Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, CIGNA, United Healthcare and EmblemHealth as well as Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans) for fee-for-service, accountable care and full-risk arrangements. A frequent lecturer for the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Ms. Silverman was also a contributing author of the New York Health Law Update.