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Michelle

Michelle R. Adams
Counsel to the Firm
Portland
D 503.778.2127
adamsm@lanepowell.com

Michelle advises clients on regulatory compliance, risk management, health care transactions, and health care litigation. She brings to her practice years of experience working in the health care industry, both as a critical care nurse for several years and as an attorney. Her years as a nurse give her a unique perspective on and practical approach to health care legal issues.    

Michelle routinely provides counsel on a wide range of health care issues facing both long-term care and other health care providers including:

  • Various types of agreements, including admission agreements, management agreements, vendor agreements, medical director agreements, and a multitude of other agreements that present themselves in the health care arena;
  • Fraud and abuse issues, including the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law;
  • HIPAA and other privacy issues; and
  • Numerous other issues that present themselves in health care.

Michelle has four children who keep her on her toes and have certainly fostered her organizational skills and strong ability to multi-task. In her “spare time” she enjoys gardening, reading, listening to her teenage daughters’ latest dramas, and spending as much time as possible hiking/running with her favorite hiking/running partner, her husband, who provides her with endless support.

Professional Experience

Regency Pacific Management, LLC, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer (2021-2022)

Pacific Retirement Services Inc., Assistant General Counsel (2018-2021)

Eskenazi Health

  • Associate Legal Counsel (2017-2018)
  • Compliance Program Analyst (2016-2017)

Clendening Johnson & Bohrer, P.C., Associate Attorney (2012-2016)

Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, Legal Extern (2010)

Critical Care Registered Nurse (1999-2012)

 

Community Involvement

Oregon Health Care Association, Legal Committee (2022-Present)

American Health Law Association (2022-Present)

LeadingAge Oregon Legislative Committee (2020-2021)

Oregon State Bar Board of Governors, State Lawyers Assistance Committee (2020 -2021)

LeadingAge National

  • Legal Committee (2019-2021)
  • General Counsel Group (2019-2021)

Soccer/Volleyball Mom

 

Thought Leadership

  • March 1, 2023Event / CLE
    Case Law Update (SNF, AL, HH)
    American Health Law Association | New Orleans, Louisiana
  • November 2, 2022Publication
    HHS Revises the Nursing Facility Special Focus Facility Program
    American Health Law Association
  • September 19, 2022News
    Adams Joins Senior Living & Long Term Care and Commercial Litigation Teams
    Firm Announcement

Practices & Industries

  • Senior Living & Long Term Care
  • Health Care Transactions
  • Commercial Litigation

Education

  • Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, J.D., 2011
    • Concentration in Health Law with Honors
  • Indiana University School of Nursing, B.S.N., Nursing, 1999

Admissions

  • Oregon
  • Washington
  • Indiana

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