Bradley D. Reed

Representative Experience

• Represents a community hospital system in all aspects of transactions and regulatory compliance, including complex Medicare and Medicaid compliance issues, joint venture arrangements, HIPAA compliance, and real estate transactions.
• Represents critical access hospitals in multiple states on various payor and compliance issues unique to CAHs under both federal and state law.
• Represents government-owned hospitals on organization, tax, and public financing issues.
• Advises a health care payments company with respect to both HIPAA and financial services regulations, including analysis of obligations and reporting requirements under money services businesses and credit notification rules and regulations.
• Advises on a wide range of ERISA issues related to employee benefit plan formation and qualification, IRS and DOL regulations and compliance, and ERISA-related litigation matters.
• Negotiated services agreement between health care payment company and national bank for client to provide payment services to bank’s customers.
• Represented a rural Wyoming hospital in medical staff hearings, practitioner disciplinary actions, and credentialing disputes.

• Analyzed compliance with Affordable Care Act requirements governing counting employee hours for purposes of determining full-time equivalent employment status for a publicly traded manufacturing company.
• Reviewed and revised HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices for group health plan administered by publicly held manufacturing company.
• Conducts HIPAA breach notification and reporting analyses for multiple covered entities when potential HIPAA breaches are reported.
• Reviews, revises, and negotiates HIPAA Business Associate Agreements for both covered entities and business associates.
• Analyzed compliance with international, federal, and state data privacy laws regarding the use, maintenance, and storage of employees’ personally identifiable information held in employee records and health plan files for a plastics and resins manufacturer.
• Represented a national hospital corporation in purchase of first hospital in Ohio, including handling all Ohio-related regulatory and compliance issues and preparing final documents.
• Defended a manufacturing company in patent dispute and successfully defeated a claim for attorneys’ fees.
• Successfully enforced non-export agreements against gray market exporters and their straw buyers for an automotive dealership group.

Education & Admissions

Education

• William & Mary Law School, College of William & Mary, J.D., summa cum laude, 2012
  • Order of the Coif
• The Ohio State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2008
  • Phi Beta Kappa

 Bar and Court Admissions

• State of Ohio
• District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio

Involvement

Professional Affiliations

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member (2012 – Present);
  • Health Law Section, Chair (2021 – 2022)
  • Health Law Section, Member (2018 – Present)
• Medical Legal Summit CMBA/AMCNO Planning Committee (2021 – 2023)
• Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US)
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Member (2018 – Present)
• American Health Lawyers Association, Member (2012 – Present)
• Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys, Member (2015 – Present)
• Ohio State Bar Association, Member (2016 – Present)
• Art Therapy Studio, Board of Directors (2021 – Present)
• Courage to Caregivers, Strategic Planning Committee Member (2021 – 2023)
• John M. Manos Inn of Court, Member (2013 – 2020)

Community Involvement

• Ludlow-Taylor PTO, Auction Committee Co-Chair (2024 – present)
• Jay/Bridge/Carroll Block Club, Member (2013 – 2020)
• Alpha Tau Zeta/Farmhouse Alumni Association, Board of Directors (2013 – 2020)
• Ohio State Bar Foundation, Fellow (2016)
• Cleveland Leadership Center, Civic Leadership Institute (Class of 2015)

Awards & Honors

• Ranked as “Up and Coming” in the field of Healthcare by Crain’s Cleveland Business (2024)
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch” list in the area of Health Care Law (2021 – Present); Administrative/Regulatory Law (2022 – Present); and Business Organizations (Including LLCs and Partnerships) (2024 – Present)
• Named to the Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars list (2017 – Present)

Publications

• “Employee COVID-19 Testing and Monitoring as Workplaces Reopen,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (May 2020)
• “Critical Care Resource Allocation Planning During Covid-19 Pandemic,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (April 2020)
• “Federal Government Expands Opportunities to Utilize Telehealth During The COVID-19 Emergency,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (March 2020)
• “Expanding Medical Marijuana Treatment in Ohio: State Medical Board Seeks “Consensus” on Adding New Qualifying Conditions,” Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal (March 2020)
• “Ready Or Not: Here Comes the CCPA (The California Consumer Privacy Act), Five Questions to Assess Your Company’s CCPA Readiness,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (November 2019)
• “Industry-Specific Cybersecurity Madates: Looking Beyond Your Industry for Guidance,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (February 2019)
• “New Year, Same Old Ransomware Attacks Against Health Care Providers,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (January 2018)
• “President Trump Circumvents Congress, Seeks to Unwind the Affordable Care Act,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (October 2017)
• “Ohio Manufacturing Sales Tax Exemption — Proposed Rule Changes,” Frantz Ward Client Alert (April 2017)
• “Bad Faith Claims and Performance Bonds,” The Construction Lawyer, Journal of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Vol. 33 No. 3 (Summer 2013)

Presentations & Lectures

• “Legal and Practical Considerations When Using AI, Data, and Information Technology in Your Workplace,” Frantz Ward Labor & Employment Seminar (June 2024)
• “State Law Data Privacy Harmonization, BIPA Litigation and Cybersecurity Issues in the Gig Economy Space,” AFLA Internation Gig Economy Seminar (April 2024)
• “Information Security and Compliance with International/Federal and State Law,” Frantz Ward ACC Seminar (August 2022)
• “Don’t Let These Data Privacy Developments Ruin Your Day,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Cleveland, OH (August 2021)

• “Vaccine Hesitancy During and After a Pandemic: Confronting Patient, Staff, and Public Concerns Regarding Vaccination,” Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (CMBA) 2021 Medical/Legal Summit Webinar (April 2021)
• “Transactional and Regulatory Compliance Considerations,” Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Health Care Law Section Webinar (December 2020)
• “Bad Faith Claims and Performance Bonds,” The Construction Lawyer, Journal of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Vol. 33 No. 3 (Summer 2013)
• “Privacy Policies and Cybersecurity,” Case Western Reserve University Think [Box], Cleveland, OH (October 2019)
• “Avoiding Data Privacy Liability,” Frantz Ward Litigation Seminar, Cleveland, OH (September 2019)
• “Health Care Issues in the Corporate World,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Cleveland, OH (August 2019)
• “Five Things Every Company Should Do Today for Cybersecurity/Data Privacy,” ACC Camp to Champs: A Business Lifecycle Seminar, Cleveland, OH (August 2019)
• “Federal Health Care Law Update,” CMBA Health Care Institute and Medical/Legal Summit, Cleveland, OH (March 2019)
• “State and Federal Updates,” CMBA’s Health Care Law Update & Medical/Legal Summit Cleveland, OH (April 2018)
• “Ohio Legal Update,” American Med Spa Association, Cleveland, OH (October 2015)

Media Coverage

• Mentioned in, “Frantz Ward Elects Reed, Smith to Partnership,“ Properties Magazine(February 2021)
• Mentioned in, “Lawyers, Firms Receive Recognition,” Cleveland Jewish News (January 2021)