Healthcare law
Gary Matzner, health law attorney.
Gary C. Matzner spent more than fifty years advising the institutions and people who deliver healthcare. His work combined legal analysis with experience as a healthcare executive, corporate director, and business counselor.
The practice
Hospitals, health plans, and physician practices.
Gary advised hospitals, managed-care organizations, physicians, ambulatory surgery centers, and healthcare entrepreneurs. His work ranged from acquisitions and restructurings to contracting, financing, compliance, and corporate governance.
KO Lawyers described him as the “Dean of Health Law Attorneys.” Over more than fifty years, his practice joined regulatory counsel, transactions, institutional operations, and corporate governance.
Representative work
Transactions, regulation, and governance.
- Hospital and health-system transactions
- Managed-care contracting and regulation
- Physician groups and ambulatory surgery centers
- Healthcare acquisitions and restructurings
- Corporate finance and governance
- Regulatory compliance and business planning
Professional chronology
From The Florida Bar in 1973 to KO Lawyers.
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Admitted to The Florida Bar
After study at the University of Connecticut, Temple University, and the University of Miami, Gary began a Florida legal career that lasted more than fifty years.
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President, Nobel Health Services
Gary led a healthcare consulting company, adding operating and management experience to his legal practice.
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President, Oakridge Outpatient Center
He also led an outpatient healthcare business, working directly with the organizational and regulatory demands faced by healthcare providers.
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Of counsel, McDermott Will & Emery
Gary practiced in Miami at an international firm while advising healthcare organizations on corporate, financing, and regulatory matters.
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Shareholder, Akerman Senterfitt
He joined Akerman’s corporate practice in November 2007. His published work addressed healthcare transactions and the rules governing hospital-physician relationships.
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Senior counsel, Zumpano Patricios & Winker
The Florida Bar reported his move to the Coral Gables firm, where his practice included medical regulatory, health-law, and corporate matters.
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Partner, KO Lawyers
Gary spent the final twelve years of his working career at Kopelowitz Ostrow and its successor firm. His practice served hospitals, managed-care companies, physician groups, surgery centers, and other healthcare organizations.
Leadership and associations
The EZCORP board and the health-law bar.
Gary joined the board of EZCORP as an independent director in July 2002 and served on its Audit Committee. The role added public-company oversight and corporate governance to his professional record.
His firm biography listed membership in the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and The Florida Bar. His community service included the Board of Governors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami-Dade.
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