Margaret focuses her practice in healthcare law, including transactional, compliance, contractual, corporate, regulatory and risk management legal issues.   

Margaret served as General Counsel of St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center of New York for almost eleven years.  She also served as General Counsel of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey for almost three years.  She has been involved with bylaws and governance matters, physician-hospital contracts, affiliation and/or service contracts, employment agreements, managed care issues, computer contracts, regulatory compliance, medical staff affairs, setting up physician practices, captive PCs and faculty practices, physician disciplinary matters, mergers and formation of hospital systems, and providing advice in areas such as consent and confidentiality.  Margaret has conducted numerous corporate investigations and started internal compliance programs.

Margaret has lectured on multiple healthcare legal topics, and has written various articles and a chapter on the legal issues associated with managed care.  She was named by New York Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in health law in the greater Metropolitan New York area for the years 2007, 2009, and 2010. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. 

Margaret J. Davino

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