Lyndean Lenhoff Brick, J.D., is the Senior Vice President with the Murer Group. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Ohio State University College of Law. Since that time, she has been actively engaged in International Law, Health Care Law, and Management Consulting.
Ms. Brick's practice is concentrated on health care law including: Medicare/Medicaid regulation and reimbursement; health care compliance; HIPAA compliance; Certificate of Need development and review; corporate restructuring, joint ventures, acquisitions and capital formation; reimbursement review and TEFRA structuring; managed health care and regulation; and risk management for health care facilities. Ms. Brick has lectured on a variety of health related topics including: Case Management, Provider-Based Regulations; HIPAA; Compliance and CORF development. The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) has honored Ms. Brick with their Annual National Institute's (ANI) Distinguished Speaker Award in 2002 and 2003. She is nationally recognized for her work and client representation in the field of Medicare and Medicaid rules and regulations. She is the regulatory lead counsel to a national base of clients and has served as the acting CEO of a seven-chain hospital system in Texas and Louisiana.
Ms. Brick also consults in the areas of strategic and long range planning for health care providers and regularly advises clients in the assessment and development of joint venture opportunities in the health care industry. Additionally, she works with the feasibility of development for alternative sites of care such as Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) and Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTFs).
Ms. Brick also has considerable operational experience in the health care industry, having been the contract Administrative Director of a 42-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit in Johnson City, Tennessee, and Contract Manager of program development for a 175,000 square foot outpatient health care facility in Canada. In June 2005, Ms. Brick was appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to serve as a member of the Illinois Hospital Licensing Board. The Hospital Licensing Board approves rules and regulations relating to the licensure, operation and establishment of all hospitals in Illinois. Ms. Brick was appointed as one of two members of the board representing governing bodies of hospitals. She serves on the Strategic Planning Committee of Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center Board of Directors in Joliet.
She also has contributed to such health care newsletters as Eli Research and CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter . One of her most recent articles for the CCH Healthcare Compliance Letter , was titled Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTFs) - A Good Way to Cooperate. Ms. Brick and Cherilyn G. Murer, J.D., CRA have co-authored The Case Management Sourcebook published by McGraw-Hill. The 300-page text serves as a guide to designing and implementing a centralized case management system. A second book published entitled, Post Acute Care Reimbursement Manual - A Financial and Legal Guide has quarterly updates for timely response to an ever changing market. Ms. Brick, Cherilyn G. Murer and Michael A. Murer, J.D. of The Murer Group, co-authored a third book on Compliance Audits and Plans for Healthcare , as well as a fourth book entitled The Complete Legal Guide to Medical Records Management . A fifth book, entitled Understanding Provider-Based Status, was published in April of 2003 by Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (CCH).
Prior to joining Murer Consultants, Inc. Ms. Brick worked as an international attorney with a particular expertise in German. As a business consultant in Chicago, Illinois, her responsibilities included the negotiation and formation of international health care joint ventures, medical product development, international marketing and market research, commercial and regulatory law, and capital formation.
Ms. Brick has considerable experience in the formation and operation of foreign-based health care clinics as well as having guided international clients through the marketing and regulatory processes of bringing new drugs and medical devices into the United States.
Additionally, while living and working in West Germany, Ms. Brick was associated with the German law firm of Piltz and Sandering, where she oversaw all U.S. commercial litigation, health care regulation, and product liability cases for the firm.