Cassie Gawron Sikorski

Overview

Cassie focuses her practice on healthcare matters in the transactional and regulatory space, including representation of physician practices and behavioral health providers. This includes working with residential care centers, facilities for youth and adolescents, substance use disorder (“SUD”) treatment providers, and entities offering Applied Behavior Analysis (“ABA”) services and pediatric therapy. In addition to her transactional work, Cassie regularly advises on compliance matters and regulatory matters, including corporate practice of medicine, anesthesiology, physical and occupational therapy, nephrology, women’s health, ambulatory surgery centers, skilled nursing facilities, and dentistry.

Cassie also has experience in advising healthcare payors on complex regulatory issues, licensing matters, and state insurance and healthcare law. Cassie has provided regulatory counsel and due diligence support for corporate mergers and acquisitions, including a $17.3 billion healthcare enterprise merger (including sale of a Medicaid plan), and has experience in insurance regulatory counsel for mergers and acquisitions of insurance companies, including pre and post-closing acquisition notifications, holding company filings, HMO licensing and change of control filing, and regulatory compliance with state insurance agencies. Cassie also works with Medicare and Medicaid regulatory issues, including compliance with Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement marketing, and state Medicare Advantage compliance investigations.

Cassie has also been involved in pro-bono work regarding elder and disability law, including leading two pro-bono representations for adult guardianship cases in Cook County, securing successful guardianship rulings for clients in each case.