Cinde Warmington, a partner at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., serves as the chair of the Health Care Practice Group and focuses her practice on health related business and regulatory issues. Cinde’s extensive background in health care operations makes her uniquely qualified to assist health care providers and businesses.
For twenty years, Cinde held both clinical and administrative roles in health care organizations as a laboratory manager, business office manager, chief operating officer for a preferred provider organization and as a consultant for billing, coding and managed care contracting issues.
As an attorney, she has worked with health care providers to address general business concerns, corporate bylaws, contracting and medical staff issues. She has a wealth of experience in health care regulatory matters including Stark and Anti-kickback law, licensing issues, EMTALA, fraud and abuse issues, HIPAA, and Medicare and Medicaid billing and coding issues. Ms. Warmington routinely assists providers in responding to government investigations of health care fraud and abuse. With this extensive background, Cinde is able to address both the legal requirements and the practical realities facing health care providers.