Regina S. Rockefeller is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Health Services group. Her law practice focuses on the representation of health care providers, and charitable and for-profit organizations in the health care and educational fields. Ms. Rockefeller represents and advises hospitals, physicians, group medical practices, accountable care organizations, captive insurers, faculty medical practice plans, continuing care retirement communities and other health care providers. She also advises health care providers on cost-effective compliance with HIPAA, HITECH and state data breach laws. Ms. Rockefeller defends health care professionals before state licensing boards.
Ms. Rockefeller is a frequent lecturer on accountable care organizations, patient safety organizations, EMTALA, patient care issues, HIPAA, fraud and abuse anti-kickback, Stark, Civil Money Penalties laws, health system governance and executive compensation, physician integration and mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duties and other regulatory compliance issues affecting institutional and individual health care providers.
In 2012, Ms. Rockefeller moderated the mock U.S. Supreme Court argument between Harvard Law Professor Einer Elhauge and Cato Senior Fellow Ilya Shapiro at Harvard Business School on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Ms. Rockefeller has lectured to the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Healthcare Assembly, the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations and hospitals and their medical staffs.
She has published numerous health law articles on topics of importance to health care providers. Ms. Rockefeller has chaired numerous health law programs for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. She served as the only lawyer 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 served for six years as 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 for AIDS patients, and as a member of a hospital patient care assessment committee.
In 1998, Tufts University selected Ms. Rockefeller as alumni commencement marshal. Ms. Rockefeller serves as an elected member of the Tufts University Alumni Council and in 2011 was appointed to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of Tufts University. While attending Boston College Law School, Ms. Rockefeller served as a member of the Industrial and Commercial Law Review and as a law student public defender in the Boston College Criminal Legal Assistance Bureau.