For nearly 25 years, Gregg Cochran has advised individual and institutional healthcare clients on a wide range of legal, compliance, and regulatory matters, from assisting entrepreneurs in establishing a solid legal foundation for launching their medical practices and medical spas and helping physicians enter the employment world, to representing individual and institutional providers facing liability under state and federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws, including the Stark Law, the federal Antikickback Statute, and the False Claims Act.
Gregg’s previous career as an emergency medicine physician informs his work on compliance with and responses to government inquiries into state licensing investigations, Medicare certification, facility accreditation, EMTALA, HIPAA, and other healthcare privacy and security laws. He advises on medical staff and governing body bylaws and represents hospitals and physicians in peer review hearings, bioethics matters, medical records and consent issues, and hospital-physician relationships and transactions.
Gregg graduated with Order of the Coif distinction from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, having served as Editor and Senior Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the nation’s oldest and among its most distinguished and influential law journals. The Penn Law Review published Gregg’s student law review article, and he has been published in various healthcare periodicals and journals. He has lectured on many healthcare topics for hospitals, medical staffs, law firms, healthcare professional schools, and medical specialty board review courses. He was an associate at Foley & Lardner and Latham & Watkins and an equity partner at Nossaman, LLP.
While continuing to practice law, Gregg began his academic career when he joined the faculty of UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings College of the Law) as Associate Director for the school’s Master of Science in Health Policy and Law program and Lecturer in Law in the JD program. He is currently an adjunct professor, teaching in the school’s Master of Studies in Law program.
Gregg received his BA in Anthropology with Phi Beta Kappa distinction from Emory University and his MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has served on the boards of directors of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, Project Open Hand, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, and he has been inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Legal Medicine.
Gregg enjoys sailing, hiking, model aviation, playing the tenor saxophone, and spending time with his partner and their dogs on the beach.