Deborah Rotenberg brings over 18 years of experience in Medicaid, Medicare, facility licensure, scope of practice, and provider-side billing/reimbursement issues to Murphy Austin’s healthcare practice. Often serving as “outside in-house counsel,” Deborah advises healthcare providers, including, but not limited to, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, individual providers, DME providers, and clinical laboratories on a wide array of day-to-day regulatory compliance and reimbursement matters.
Deborah is regularly asked to provide legal opinions and strategic guidance about enrollment and licensure, record retention, billing and reimbursement, audits and investigations, public program participation standards, payor disputes, scope of practice, patient privacy, pharmaceutical regulation, and clinical operations. Deborah also has considerable policy and legislative advocacy experience and advises both private organizations and public policy makers on legislative and administrative proposals related to healthcare. Deborah has a particular expertise in legal matters pertaining to reproductive health care, including those relating to abortion care and comprehensive family planning services.
Deborah received her B.A. from University of California, Davis and earned her J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law, now UC Law, San Francisco.
Education
- UC Law, San Francisco
J.D., 2005 - University of California, Davis
B.A., Political Science, Public Service, 2000
Admissions
- State Bar of California
Leadership
- California Abortion Alliance Advisory Board
- Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte Board
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Health Law Association
- Sacramento County Bar Association, Health Care
- California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
- UC Hastings Board of Governors
Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, “Family PACT: The future of the state’s most important family planning program,” California Primary Care Association 2024 Annual Conference, October 18, 2024
- Co-Presenter, “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare,” California Primary Care Association 2024 Region IX Clinical Excellence & Leadership Conference, June 9, 2024
- Co-Presenter, “Notes from the Field: Updates and Common Licensure and Enrollment Pitfalls Impacting Billing,” California Primary Care Association 2024 Financial Conference, May 16, 2024
- Co-Presenter, “Necessary Care, Uncompensated Costs: Challenges for FQHCs when Providing Obstetrics Services,” California Primary Care Association 2023 Annual Conference, October 13, 2023
- Co-Presenter, “Navigating Compliance with SUD Records Laws,” California Primary Care Association Compliance Symposium, March 11, 2022
- Sacramento/Sactown Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, Healthcare (2024)
