ANTHEA focuses on health care, corporate and nonprofit law and is co-chair of the Health Care and Life Sciences practice group. Her practice also includes long term care advisory services and information technology.
Anthea provides counsel to health systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, long-term care facilities, insurance companies, clinics, surgery centers, professional management companies and physician groups. She represents health care providers involved in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and integrated delivery systems. Anthea reviews managed care regulatory and contracting issues, mergers and acquisitions, corporate HIPAA compliance issues, fraud and abuse, OIG and DOJ investigations, Stark, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters and tax exempt issues for public charities and private foundations. Her representative experience also includes physician practice acquisitions, medical staff issues, as well as health care antitrust. She has also represented clients with regard to corporate matters, the establishment of limited liability companies and corporate contracting, including mergers and acquisitions, formulation and dissolution, licensing and information technology, board governance issues, privacy matters and cable franchising matters for regional telecommunications corporations.
Anthea is the past president of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). She has served on the board of directors and executive committee of the AHLA for 10 years and is the past chair of the association’s annual meeting, which was held in Philadelphia in June 2006. Anthea is a member of the CCH Reimbursement Advisory Board, is the past chairman and president of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of The Healthcare Financial Management Association, and a recipient of its Founders, Merit and Muncie Gold Awards. She is a past recipient of Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under Forty, the YWCA Women of Professional Excellence, and Cleveland Magazine’s 50 Most Interesting People. She formerly chaired the Cleveland Bar Association’s Health Care Law Council, as well as the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division’s Healthcare Law Committee and Delivery of Legal Services to the Elderly Committee.
For several years she chaired the Fundamentals of Healthcare Law Seminar sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association in Chicago, Illinois and has also chaired the Cleveland Bar Association’s Annual Health Care Institute. Anthea was chair of Playhouse Square Partners and served on its board for a decade. She served on the board of directors of Business Volunteers Unlimited, and was a board and executive committee member of Life Banc. She also served on the board of Beech Brook and the Help Foundation. She served on the advisory board of City Year Cleveland, and currently serves on the advisory board of Malachi House.
Anthea is a member of the adjunct faculty at Case Western Reserve University Law School where she taught healthcare transactions and was also a member of the visiting committee of the law school. She is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University.
She is a national speaker on various health care topics including HIPAA, health care and managed care contracting, Stark, and fraud and abuse. Anthea has authored numerous articles and chapters for books on topics ranging from HIPAA to health care contracting. She is an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Ohio State Bar Association, The Healthcare Financial Management Association and the British American Chamber of Commerce.
Anthea began her tenure with Calfee in 1989, becoming a partner in 1999. She is chairperson of the firm’s Associates Committee and became a member of the Executive Committee in 2009.