Perkins Coie Adds Healthcare Partner Zubin Khambatta to Austin Office
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Zubin Khambatta has joined the firm’s Healthcare industry group as a partner in the Austin office. Zubin is the latest addition to the newly opened Austin office, highlighting Perkins Coie’s continued growth and expansion in Texas.
Zubin joins a team of three other new partners who have already joined the Austin office since its opening in the past month. He will also help strengthen the health care-related focus of the firm’s Technology Transactions & Privacy practice in the Dallas office and partner with the Dallas-based healthcare innovations and privacy practice.
Zubin represents clients in reimbursement related matters that involve counseling and advisory services, litigation, representation before state regulatory bodies, OIG or other government investigations, and structuring complex contractual arrangements with governmental and commercial payors. This focus includes guiding providers in regulatory compliance and payment matters involving government sponsored supplemental payment programs that enable the provision of services to Medicaid and uninsured populations. He counsels healthcare organizations in transactional and compliance matters involving Medicaid and Medicare regulations, the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program, section 1115 Waiver programs, Medicaid managed care, healthcare fraud and abuse laws, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, and state laws governing public healthcare providers and nonprofit healthcare organizations. He also represents healthcare clients in mergers, acquisitions and other transactional matters, including physician group, hospital and behavioral health provider acquisitions, and various forms of co-ownership or co-management of healthcare organizations. Zubin represents multi-state hospital organizations, children’s hospitals, public hospitals, academic medical centers, hospital districts, and physician groups in these areas.
Zubin received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, his M.S. from the University of Edinburgh, with Distinction, and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude.
