For almost two decades, attorney Melissa Borrelli has provided health care clients with innovative and practical solutions to the legal, regulatory, and policy issues they face.

Among Melissa’s broad array of clients are payors, health systems, providers, and other entities in the health care, managed care, and health plan industry, such as psychological, dental, vision, chiropractic/acupuncture, employee assistance, and other specialized plans; commercial plans; discount plans; and government-based health plans, including Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace.

Clients turn to Melissa for advice on compliance and regulatory affairs, auditing/operational assessment, enterprise risk management, digital health, telemedicine, contracts, due diligence, fraud and abuse, public policy, and privacy and information security issues. She also counsels clients on health care and privacy compliance regulations, processes, and programs and has been certified by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) in both Healthcare Compliance and Healthcare Privacy Compliance. In addition, Melissa is experienced in health care discrimination law, federal and state mental health parity requirements, and transactional matters, including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganization.

Health plans and risk-bearing providers also seek Melissa’s guidance on licensing, contracting, and other issues concerning managed care laws and standards, such as the California Knox-Keene Act, the Welfare and Institutions Act, the federal Affordable Care Act, the Public Health Service Act, and National Committee for Quality Assurance accreditation standards.