Business

Monday August 10, 2009

Moving up: Jeffrey L. Cohen

'Jeffrey L. Cohen's favorite quote:’
'Success will not bring you happiness, but happiness will bring you success.'
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

With more than 20 years of health care law experience under his belt, Jeffrey L. Cohen decided it was time for a change. He left the firm he had worked with for 13 years to start his own, Florida Healthcare Law Firm and Maverick Medical Claims.

 
  The practice focuses on transactional health care and corporate matters, particularly as they relate to physicians, ambulatory surgery centers and imaging centers. Maverick specializes in managed care reimbursement issues and sophisticated denied claims appeals.

It will, he says, prove to be invaluable for billing and collection companies, in-house billing departments, and health care practices and businesses of all kinds.

He is board certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in health care law and has served in a variety of roles, including Associate General Counsel of the Florida Medical Association. He was named "Best Health Care Attorney" in 1995 at the Sixth Annual Medical Business Healthcare Awards.

Lawyer, musician, shaman

Age: 49

Education: Bachelor's and law degrees from Florida State University Personal: Engaged to Sassy Burke. Lives in Delray Beach. Has three children: Ariane, 19, Isabel, 17, and Robert, 14.

Hobbies: 'Outdoor sports (scuba, cycling, hiking, fishing), traveling, playing a couple of musical instruments passionately and very poorly.'

Career highlight: 'Finding ways to work that inspire me and express what is important to me.

 

He is a popular speaker and writer and provides consultant services to the publication Medical Business. He is a certified arbitrator with the American Health Lawyers Association and shares a generous portion of his time in charitable causes.

"I was born in Miami, around tomato and watermelon fields," said Cohen, who also is an Inkan shaman. "My life has become about what I'm learning here."

A portion of his practice's profits goes back to the communities it serves.

- Mary Thurwachter