Reinhart Attorney Heather Fields Named to 2019 "Leaders in the Law" by Wisconsin Law Journal

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MILWAUKEE – Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (Reinhart) announces that Shareholder Heather L. Fields has been named a 2019 Women in the Law award recipient by Wisconsin Law Journal. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by the region’s top women in the practice of law.

Fields chairs the firm’s Hospitals and Health Care Systems Group and is also a member of the firm’s Hospice and Palliative Care, White Collar Litigation and Corporate Compliance, and Tax-Exempt Organizations groups where she has delivered informed counsel on a wide range of regulatory, transactional and compliance-related matters for more than 20 years.

She has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and advising clients in connection with compliance and fraud and abuse issues that arise in the context of operations and various health care provider relationships and transactions. Fields also deals regularly with patient safety and quality-of-care issues, peer review matters and medical staff issues, including investigations, corrective actions, fair hearings and drafting and review of medical staff bylaws and other governance documents. She advises clients on designing and implementing corporate compliance programs and assessing compliance program effectiveness, all aspects of HIPAA compliance and clinical research compliance.

In addition to serving her clients, Fields is a nationally recognized speaker at leading industry events where she addresses complex issues facing the business and delivery of health care. She also devotes countless hours to professional and community organizations—including her leadership roles with the HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin, where she is an active participant in the ongoing dialog on HIPAA implementation, as well as TEMPO Milwaukee, where she is focused on the advancement of professional women.

The 2019 "Women in the Law" recipients were honored at an awards ceremony on June 20, in Milwaukee.

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