Andrew Ruskin Partner

Andrew Ruskin is a partner in Morgan Lewis's FDA/Healthcare Regulation Practice. Mr. Ruskin's practice focuses on providing counsel on healthcare regulatory matters to pharmaceutical and medical device companies, hospitals and other healthcare service providers, and insurers and other commercial payors. He regularly advises on Medicare and Medicaid coverage, reimbursement, and compliance issues affecting these entities. These issues include drug and device coverage, pricing, and coding, claims and cost report submission and appeals, graduate medical education reimbursement, joint venture structuring, and federal Stark and fraud and abuse laws. In connection with these issues, Mr. Ruskin frequently advocates his client's position to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Additionally, Mr. Ruskin has appeared before a number of tribunals established to adjudicate Medicare and Medicaid appeals.

Mr. Ruskin's practice also includes defending healthcare entities involved in investigations by the U.S. Attorney's Office or by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. Mr. Ruskin has significant transactional experience and has drafted numerous disclosure statements for SEC filings for healthcare entities.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Ruskin was an attorney in the healthcare practice of a prestigious international law firm.

Mr. Ruskin received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1996, where he was an associate editor of the Case Western Reserve Law Review and named to the Order of the Coif. He was also a visiting student at the New York University School of Law in 1996. Mr. Ruskin received his B.A. in English and psychology from Wesleyan University in 1987. He is fluent in Japanese.

Mr. Ruskin is an active speaker on an array of topics, including reimbursement methodologies, compliance, and fraud and abuse. He frequently speaks to groups such as the American Health Lawyers Association, the Healthcare Compliance Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the Annual National Congress on Health Care Compliance.

Mr. Ruskin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.