Regina S. Rockefeller
Partner

She is a frequent lecturer on Patient Safety Organizations, EMTALA, the right to die, HIPAA, fraud and abuse, Stark, health system governance, physician integration and mergers and acquisitions,fiduciary and other regulatory compliance issues affecting institutional and individual health care providers and their insurers.

Ms. Rockefeller has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 for healthcare work. She has been recognized by Chambers USA in previous years. For the nineteenth consecutive year, she has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 (copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey. Ms. Rockefeller was selected in 2008 for inclusion in Boston Magazine’s Super Lawyer & Rising Star Section as one of the “Top Fifty Female Massachusetts Super Lawyers”. In addition, Ms. Rockefeller was selected in 2006 by her peers for inclusion in Boston Magazine’s Super Lawyers (copyright 2006 Key Professional Media, Inc.), and was named as one of the “Top Fifty Female Massachusetts Super Lawyers”. Ms. Rockefeller has also been recognized as a “New England Super Lawyer” in Health Care based on a peer-review survey by Boston Magazine (2005-2008).

 

Ms. Rockefeller is a frequent speaker to health care industry organizations, including the American Health Lawyers Association, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Healthcare Assembly, the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association and hospitals and their medical staffs. 

 

She has published numerous health law articles on topics of importance to health care providers. She chaired the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Annual Health Law Update, from 1990 to 1998 and its Health Law Basics program in 2001. In 1997, Ms. Rockefeller served on the Massachusetts Medical Society Task Force on Hospital Conversions and Mergers.

 

Ms. Rockefeller is the former Treasurer of the Boston Bar Association and a former chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Boston Bar Association Health Law sections. Ms. Rockefeller is a member of the Editorial Board of the Boston Bar Journal. 

 

Ms. Rockefeller has served as a trustee and clerk of a community hospital, Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Medicare certified hospice and serves as a member of a hospital Patient Care Assessment Committee. 

 

In 1998, Tufts University honored Ms. Rockefeller by selecting her as Alumni Commencement Marshall. While attending Boston College Law School Ms. Rockefeller was a member of the Industrial and Commercial Law Review.