Overview

When hospital and physician leadership need advice on a broad array of medical staff, credentialing, peer review, and quality improvement issues, they turn to attorney Steve Kleinman.

His daily work includes advising hospitals and medical staff leaders regarding best practices with respect to medical staff appointment and clinical privileging matters, conduct and impairment concerns, issues involving summary suspension and formal corrective action, hearings and appeals, and attendant processes and procedures. He routinely works with medical staff leaders to revise and update medical staff bylaws, policies, and rules and regulations.

As an attorney with more than 25 years of medical staff experience, Steve brings a real-world practical approach to support his counsel in medical staff matters. Hospice, long-term care providers, and developmental disability service providers rely on Steve’s advice regarding regulatory and day-to-day operational issues.

Proud of being rooted in his community, Steve sits on the Board of Directors of the Columbus Speech & Hearing Center.

Focus Areas

Experience

  • Reviewed the medical staff bylaws and governing documents of a hospital system with 11 hospital campuses to standardize the processes and bylaws language for credentialing, privileging, peer review, and corrective action across the system, promoting clinical integration and consistent standards of care throughout the hospital system.
  • Redrafted a large hospital system’s medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and organization manual, which contained the committee structure, sharing of information, and peer review processes. The system’s medical staff documents and processes are now standardized, allowing for increased sharing of quality and performance data within the system and improved patient care.
  • Unified a health system’s three medical staffs to be in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Conditions of Participation to create increased efficiencies within the system’s hospitals. Steve restructured the unified medical staff’s peer review process and rules and regulations.
  • Assisted with transitioning all assets of a not-for-profit developmental disability service provider to another not-for-profit developmental disability service provider, forming one of the largest developmental disabilities service providers in Ohio in terms of revenue and consumers served.
  • Worked closely with in-house counsel and medical staff leadership of individual hospitals and multi-hospital systems to conduct reviews of medical staff governing bylaws, policies, and procedures for compliance with Medicare conditions of participation and applicable law and private accreditation standards (i.e., TJC, HFAP, DNV/NIAHO), making recommendations for standardization and industry best practices. Additionally, Steve and his team assisted with the implementation of new policies and evaluated peer review policies for effective processes, making recommendations for updates and revisions.
  • Worked with an operator of long-term acute care hospitals to resolve a dispute with an insurance carrier regarding Medicare and Medicaid plan payments. Steve’s team identified the source of payment discrepancies, corrected prior incorrect billings and put appropriate measures in place to prevent future occurrences.
  • Represented a hospital system in multiple arbitration proceedings in a dispute with national payor relative to the implementation of sequestration cuts imposed following passage of the budget deficit reduction act.

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in America: Health Care Law (2013 to 2025); Litigation–Health Care (2013 to 2022); Columbus Lawyer of the Year (2021)
  • Chambers USA: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business: Ohio—Health Care, "Leader in Their Field" (2017 to 2024)
  • Martindale-Hubbell: Rated "AV Preeminent"
  • Ohio Super Lawyers: Health Care (2010 to 2025); Top 50 Columbus (2015, 2016, 2019); Top 100 Ohio (2016)

Credentials

Education

  • The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., 1995)
  • Cornell University (B.S., 1991)

Bar Admissions

  • Ohio
  • West Virginia

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio

Professional & Community Involvement

  • American Health Law Association, Medical Staff Peer Review and Credentialing Practice Group
  • Columbus Speech & Hearing Center, Board of Directors, Executive Committee member
  • West Virginia Bar Association

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