Fatema Zanzi

Fatema Zanzi is an associate in the Health Care Practice Group. Her practice focuses on assisting hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations on a wide variety of regulatory and corporate matters, including health care reform initiatives, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and provider enrollment, medical staff matters, health care provider licensure, EMTALA, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalty Statute, federal and state privacy laws, antitrust matters and telemedicine laws. She regularly drafts corporate governance documents, medical staff bylaws, professional services agreements, physician employment and recruitment agreements, management contracts and clinical trial agreements.

Fatema also has significant experience in corporate transaction matters, including strategic affiliations, hospital-physician integration, hospital mergers, joint ventures, tax-exempt bond financing, and consolidations of physician groups. She has drafted and negotiated letters of intent and definitive agreements for corporate transactions, conducted due diligence of potential partners and finalized closing documents.

Fatema has a particular interest in counseling hospitals on how to ensure a cooperative environment between the hospital and its medical staff. She regularly reviews and updates medical staff governance documents and policies, represents hospitals during fair hearing proceedings and has defended hospitals in litigation, including prevailing in a recent jury trial in Illinois state court.

Prior to joining the firm, Fatema was a research assistant with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she provided compliance education and guidance on the then-recently promulgated HIPAA Privacy Rule. She was also a consultant with Stockamp & Associates, Inc. (now Huron Consulting Group), where she provided on-site business consulting services to large health care systems and community hospitals throughout the United States.

In General. Fatema received her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, with a certificate in Health Law from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2006 and her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 2000.