Hannah E. Zaitlin

Hannah E. Zaitlin is a health care business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Her practice focuses on advising providers and investors in the health care sector, including nonprofit and for-profit hospitals, health systems, skilled nursing and senior living facilities, and physician organizations on mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, entity formation and restructurings, corporate and non-profit governance, debt and equity financings, and commercial contracting. She frequently counsels clients on a range of health care compliance and regulatory matters, including state and federal fraud and abuse laws, HIPAA, professional and facility licensure and change of ownership requirements, and payor/reimbursement issues. Hannah is a member of the firm’s Health Care Industry Team.

Publications and Presentations

• Co-author, “Navigating Physician Transactions in New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Bare News (January 2018)
• Co-presenter, “Making the Deal: Navigating SNF Transactions While Avoiding Traps for the Unwary,” The New England Alliance Regional Winter Conference (January 2018)
• Co-author, “Battling the Opioid Epidemic: A Legislative Update,” ACC Docket (October 2017)
• Author, “New Hampshire Finalizes Opioid Prescribing Rules,” Health Care Law Today (February 2017)
• Co-author, “HIPAA One Year Later: Is Your Law Firm Complying?” New Hampshire Bar Journal
• Author, “New Rules Governing Wellness Plans,” New Hampshire Union Leader (September 2013)
• Author, “Know the Law: Notifying Patients of Dissolution of New Hampshire Physician's Practice,” New Hampshire Union Leader (March 2013)
• Author, “Federal Health Care Reform Aims to Ban Medicaid Reimbursement for Health Care-Acquired Conditions Beginning July 2011,” Healthcare Review (July 2011)
• Author, “Mental Health Parity: Will the New Federal Law Place a Crunch on an Already Stressed System?” Healthcare Review (July 2010)

Education

• The University of Maine School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2009)
• Recipient, Convocation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business and Commercial Law
• Brandeis University (B.A., 2003)
• Sociology, minoring in Social Justice and Social Policy
• Captain, Brandeis University indoor and outdoor track & field teams

Affiliations and Community Engagement

Hannah is currently co-clerk of the Health Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association. She previously served as a member of the board of directors of the University of Maine School of Law Alumni Association and as board member and co-membership secretary for the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association. Hannah has completed the Leadership Greater Manchester program of the Manchester, New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce (Class of 2015); the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits Hoffman-Hass Fellowship (Inaugural Class); and the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants Young Professionals Leadership Academy (Class of 2014).

Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire