Mr. Scarano has represented a wide variety of health care clients, including air and ground emergency medical services providers, private and governmental hospitals and their medical staffs, nursing homes, physician organizations, management services organizations (MSOs), managed care organizations, diagnostic test providers and professional associations. He represents these clients in a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, including reimbursement, managed care, fraud and abuse/compliance, HIPAA and other privacy laws, and general business transactions.

Mr. Scarano has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. He was selected for inclusion in the recent editions of The Best Lawyers in America® (2007-2012), the 2007-2010 San Diego Super Lawyers® lists, and was ranked as one of the top health care attorneys in the nation in 2009-2011 by Chambers USA. Mr. Scarano also served as co-chair of the Health Law Committee of the State Bar of California for 2006-2007.

Mr. Scarano has extensive knowledge regarding emergency medical services law and physician assistant law. He is the author of "The California Physician Assistant's and Supervising Physician's Legal Handbook" (2008). He is co-author of the books "Recent Developments with HIPAA" (2010) and "Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to the False Claims Act" (2007). He is also the author of "The California Physician Assistant's and Supervising Physician's Legal Handbook" (2009). He has been an associate editor and regular legal columnist for EMS Insider for 15 years. He speaks regularly before health care professional organizations and has published numerous articles on a variety of health law topics.

Mr. Scarano is a 1984 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with academic distinction, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.