Arielle M. Smitt is a member of the Firm’s Health Care and Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice Groups. She assists hospitals, physicians, physician practice groups, social service providers, and other for-profit and nonprofit health care providers with a variety of health care regulatory, corporate, and business issues.

Arielle has experience advising on Federal and State regulatory compliance and government investigations and audits, the Certificate of Need process, licensing, and accreditation, practitioner licensure, Medicare and Medicaid compliance and reimbursement, fraud and abuse matters, and HIPAA and privacy compliance. She also has experience assisting physician and physician practices with medical staff issues, including drafting physician employment agreements.

For nonprofit providers, Arielle also assists with filing for recognition of tax exemption, board management issues, and general operational issues.

Arielle received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law where she served as the Executive Managing Editor for the Health Law Journal. Arielle received her B.S., magna cum laude, from Northeastern University. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.