Elizabeth D. Shaw

Main Practice Areas

• Health Care Law   

About Elizabeth D. Shaw

Elizabeth Shaw limits her practice to health care matters.  Ms. Shaw is Board Certified as a Specialist in Health Law by the Florida Bar Association.  She also is a registered nurse and a licensed health care risk manager in the State of Florida, with more than 20 years of clinical, management and legal experience. She combines her legal expertise with her extensive experience in nursing, risk management and the health care business to provide clients on advice on a broad range of transactional legal matters, including contracting, corporate compliance, joint ventures, physician office operational issues, reimbursement licensing, medical staff, and federal and state regulatory matters, such as privacy and confidentiality, HIPAA and fraud and abuse issues.

She assists clients in analyzing and structuring complex health care transactions to comply with applicable laws, including, but not limited to, Stark, Anti-Kickback, Fee-Splitting and Patient Self-Referral laws. Key transactions include the combination, sale and acquisition of physician practices; formation of physician networks; preparation of employment agreements and responses to Medicare and Medicaid audits.

Elizabeth is a frequent lecturer and author on various health care topics. She is a member of the Health Law Section of The Florida Bar, the Health Law Section of the Jacksonville Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Education

• Florida Coastal School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1999, Top 20 percent of class, Dean's Scholar, Dean's List, Associate Business Editor, Law Review
  
• Central Michigan University, Master of Science (Administration) 1995, Sigma Iota Epsilon
  
• Florida State University, B.S. (Nursing) 1983, Sigma Theta Tau

Professional Recognition

• Board Certified as a Specialist in Health Law by the Florida Bar Association.
  
• Selected for inclusion in Jacksonville Magazine's April 2013 feature, "Florida Bar Certified Attorneys 2013"
  
• Selected for inclusion in Jacksonville Magazine's April 2012 feature, "Florida Bar Certified Attorneys 2012"
  
• Selected for inclusion in Jacksonville Magazine's April 2011 feature, "Florida Bar Certified Attorneys 2011"
  
• Selected for inclusion in Jacksonville Magazine's April 2010 feature, "Florida Bar Certified Attorneys 2010"
  
• Selected for inclusion in Jacksonville Magazine’s April 2009 feature, “Order In The Court: 200 Local Expert Attorneys.”
  
• Selected for inclusion in Law & Politics’ Florida Super Lawyers ® - Rising Stars Edition 2009 for Health Care Law (only 2.5% of the lawyers in the state are named to the Rising Stars list).
  

Professional Background

• Akerman Senterfitt, Jacksonville, Florida, Associate Attorney, 2002 - 2006
  
• Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, Director, Risk Management, 2000 – 2001
  
• McCullough & Glary, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, Associate Attorney, 2000
  
• Brant, Moore, Macdonald & Wells, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, Law Clerk, 1998 – 1999
  
• Baptist St. Vincent's Health System, Jacksonville, Florida, Manager of Pulmonary Rehabilitation/The Asthma Center, 1990 - 2000

Professional Affiliations

• Board Member, Florida Coastal School of Law Alumni (2006-2007)
  
• Board Member, Northeast Florida Information Network (NEFIN) (2005-2006)
  
• Board Member, Community Asthma Partnership Jacksonville, Inc. (2004)
  
• Board Member, Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems, Inc. (2000-2003)
  
• Admitted, Florida Bar (2000)
  
• Member, The Florida Bar, Health Law Section
  
• Member, American Health Lawyers Association
  
• Member, The Jacksonville Bar Association, Health Law Section

Recent Presentations / Lectures

• Anatomy of a Contract, St. Vincent's Family Practice Residency Program, Jacksonville, Florida (December 17, 2012)
  
• Anatomy of a Contract, Mayo Clinic Residency Program, Jacksonville, Florida (March 26, 2012)
  
• Anatomy of a Contract, St. Vincent's Family Practice Residency Program, Jacksonville, Florida (November 7, 2011)
  
• Anatomy of a Contract, Mayo Clinic Residency Program, Jacksonville, Florida (September 28, 2007)
  
• Anatomy of a Contract, St. Vincent's Family Practice Residency Program, Jacksonville, Florida (August 2, 2007)
  
• Risk Management, Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida (September 18, 2000)
  
• Documentation Survival Skills for Nurses, Jacksonville University School of Nursing, Jacksonville, Florida (February 25, 2001)
  
• Critical Thinking and Documentation Survival Skills for Nurses, Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida (April 26, 2001)
  
• Anatomy of a Lawsuit, River City Symposium, Ponce de Leon Resort, St. Augustine, Florida (August 24, 2001)

Published Articles

• Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations (5th Ed.), Chapter: "Managing the Risk of Information Flow," Roberta Carroll, Editor, copyright 2006.
  
• Elizabeth Shaw, Patient Safety Update: Penmanship Counts, Akerman Senterfitt Newsletter, Winter 2004.
  
• Marshall Burack and Elizabeth D. Shaw, Contributed Florida Law Sections for: 2004 STATE BY STATE GUIDE TO MANAGED CARE LAW. edited by Donald Levy (2004)
  
• Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations (4th Ed.), Chapter 44: "Data Management," Roberta Carroll, Editor, copyright 2004.
  
• Elizabeth D. Shaw, A Medical Malpractice Insurance and Asset Protection in Florida, 3 BYTES, A Publication by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians (May 2002).
  
• Stephen G. Prom and Elizabeth Shaw, Chapter 17, Facing Legal and Insurance Issues, The Unofficial Guide to Alternative Medicine (1998).
  
• Elizabeth Shaw, A Cruise For Pulmonary Patients: Mastering The Possibility, 3 Perspectives, Resp, Nsg, 1, 3 (1992).