Joseph M. Kozak has more than 30 years experience practicing health care law.  He has represented health care clients before numerous agencies and licensing boards and in the Federal District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit as well as state courts.  After serving in the United States Marine Corps and graduating from Boston College Law School, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maine and in that capacity served as Chief Counsel to the Maine Department of Health and Welfare (now the Department of Human Services).  Joe is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and has served as chair of the Health Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association. Under the designation "Health Care Lawyers," he has been listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" continuously since 1991.  He can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 112, or via e-mail: jkozak@kozakgayer.com

Gordon K. Gayer concentrates his practice in the area of tax-exempt bond financing for health care institutions.  Gordon is a member of the Health Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association, the Administrative Law and Health Law Sections of the American Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association.  Gordon is a graduate of Oberlin College and Northeastern University (A.B., with high honor). He is admitted to practice in both Maine and the District of Columbia.  Gordon is of counsel to the firm.

Benjamin P. Townsend maintains a general health care law practice with an emphasis on advising hospitals and their affiliates with regard to strategic and transactional planning, regulatory compliance, and clinical practice issues.  He has also advised physicians and other health care professionals with regard to staff privileges, professional licensure, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and other issues.  Mr. Townsend has in-depth knowledge in the fields of antitrust, fraud and abuse, tax exemption, and confidentiality of health information.  He is a member of the Health Law section of the Maine State Bar Association, the Antitrust and Health Law Sections of the American Bar Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association, and the American Health Information Management Association, and is admitted to practice in Maine and New Hampshire. He is listed under the category of “Health Care Law” in the Woodward/White publication, The Best Lawyers in America.  Mr. Townsend is a frequent presenter at seminars on health law matters, and from 2000 through 2002 was an adjunct professor in the graduate program in health policy and management offered through the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, where he taught a course in health law.  Mr. Townsend is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Maine School of Law.  Following his graduation from law school, he clerked for Justice Samuel W. Collins, Jr., of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.  Mr. Townsend also serves as Chair of the Grievance Commission of the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar.  He can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 111, or via e-mail:or via e-mail: btownsend@kozakgayer.com

Julius Ciembroniewicz maintains a general health care law practice with an emphasis on health care financial matters, including tax-exempt bond financing, Certificate of Need, strategic planning and development, managed care contracting, physician recruitment, and reimbursement.  Julius attended the London School of Economics in London, England, and is a graduate of Connecticut College (B.S., Political Science), and Franklin Pierce Law Center (J.D., with high honor), where he was a quarterfinalist at the 1996 national advocacy competition at Widener School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. Julius interned for Judge Courtland Perry, of the Maine District Court, Chief Judge Kirk Studstrup, of the Maine District Court and Chief Justice Daniel E. Wathen, of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.  Prior to practicing law, he was an officer in the commercial workout division at Key Bank of Maine.  Julius is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Health Care Financial Management Association and the Health Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association.  Julius resides in Portland, Maine.  He can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 113, or via e-mail: jciembroniewicz@kozakgayer.com.

Michael D. Seitzinger assists hospitals and other providers on a wide variety of legal matters. He routinely assists clients with business transactions, including commercial leases, employment contracts, and service contracts.  He is a member of the firm’s Certificate of Need team, assisting hospitals with CON applications and related matters, and also represents hospitals in reimbursement matters.  He advises clients on general corporate matters, nonprofit governance, and medical staff issues.  The State of Maine regularly retains Mike to prepare state contracts and RFPs for health care services.  Mike has substantial experience representing providers before state licensing and regulatory agencies and in judicial appeals of agency action.  He has represented health care clients before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Maine, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and the Maine Superior Court. He also has considerable appellate experience, having argued more than 50 cases before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Mike served as a Maine Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division and co-authored Maine's treatise on criminal procedure, Maine Criminal Practice.  He also has served as Associate Commissioner of the Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services and as a consultant to numerous state agencies.  He has written many legal articles, and has lectured at the University of Maine School of Law and at numerous legal seminars.  Mike is listed in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law.  He is a graduate of Hamilton College and Boston College Law School (cum laude, Order of the Coif).  He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and of the Health Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association.  Mike can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 120, or via e-mail: mseitzinger@kozakgayer.com.

Susan H. Tedrick was Vice President and Corporate Counsel at MaineGeneral Health from 1997 until she joined Kozak & Gayer in January 2004. As chief legal officer for MaineGeneral, she oversaw and performed legal work for all areas of the system, including acute care, physician practices, long term care, home care, hospice, and an independent living retirement community.  Before joining MaineGeneral Health, she was legal counsel to the Maine Hospital Association and engaged in private practice representing hospitals and other providers. Before attending law school, she had substantial experience as a utilization review director, DRG coordinator, and medical staff coordinator. She also has experience as a compliance consultant.  Susan has presented many seminars on a wide variety of health law matters, and her publications include articles on fraud and abuse, medical practice acquisition, antitrust, elder law, advance medical directives and patient dumping. She teaches a course in health law as an adjunct professor in the graduate program in health policy and management offered through the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine.  Susan is a graduate of the University of Florida and Southern Illinois University School of Law, where she concentrated in health law.  She can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 122, or via e-mail: stedrick@kozakgayer.com.

Steven L. Johnson's health law practice encompasses a broad range of matters, including regulatory compliance, consent and confidentiality, bioethics, contracts and transactions, and health care professional immigration law.  Much of his practice involves health law litigation, representing firm clients in federal and state court and before federal and state regulatory and licensing agencies.  Before practicing law, Steve was employed as a clinical bioethicist at Carle Foundation Hospital and Carle Clinic Association in Urbana, Illinois, where he also served as the Chair of the Ethics Committee and held a Teaching Associate appointment in Bioethics in the University of Illinois College of Medicine’s Internal Residency Program.  Steve also has extensive teaching experience, and has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in bioethics and health law at the University of Illinois and St. Joseph’s College.  He frequently speaks at seminars and conferences on health law and bioethics and at hospital in-service training programs on a variety of topics.  Steve is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law (cum laude), where he was his class’s Commencement Speaker. Prior to law school, he earned an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Kentucky and pursued doctoral-level graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Illinois.  Steve is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Law Sections of the American Bar Association and the Maine Bar Association.  Steve can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 123, or via email at: sjohnson@kozakgayer.com.

Stacey B. Mondschein has extensive experience in a wide array of health care matters, including clinical and regulatory compliance, bioethics and confidentiality issues, policy development and business transactions including the negotiation and drafting of hospital affiliation contracts. Her litigation experience includes conducting jury trials and disciplinary hearings as well as advising peer review panels on medical staff issues. Before joining Kozak & Gayer, Stacey was Associate Counsel to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, providing legal counsel to New York City's 11 City-owned hospitals.  She has also served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York defending medical malpractice cases, as Assistant Counsel to New York State's physician licensing board, and as a consultant on compliance matters. Stacey has extensive experience in education and training at the university level and in professional settings, and has spoken or written on topics including patient confidentiality, clinical research, compliance, ethics and medical staff issues. Stacey is a graduate of Clark University (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and New York University School of Law.  She is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, as well as Maine. Stacey is a member of the Health Law and Women's Law Sections of the Maine Bar Association, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association, and is a member of the Board of the Maine Bioethics Network. She can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 126, or via e-mail: smondschein@kozakgayer.com.

Aaron S. King maintains a general health law practice after joining Kozak & Gayer, P.A. upon graduation from the University of Maine School of Law in 2007.  He won the Maine Bar Foundation’s Clegg Memorial Writing Prize in his final year of Law School and has been published in the Maine Bar Journal for his research on Certificate of Need regulation in Maine. Aaron was an Editor of the Maine Law Review and worked for the Cumberland Legal Aid clinic, where he represented clients in various criminal and civil matters.  Additionally, Aaron has worked as a corporate governance analyst, focusing on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and has interned for Sen. Susan Collins in Washington D.C.  Aaron graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 (B.A.).   Aaron is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association.  He can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 124, or via e-mail at aking@kozakgayer.com

Allana L. Barrington graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maine with a degree in Business Administration, and received her law degree in 2006 from the University of Maine School of Law. Prior to attending law school, she was an auditor for the Medicare Part A Fiscal Intermediary for northern New England, and upon graduating from law school, before joining Kozak & Gayer, worked as a Senior Healthcare Consultant at a Portland accounting firm, where she concentrated on Medicare reimbursement matters. Allana focuses her practice on reimbursement issues, including provider appeals. She is admitted to practice in Maine, and is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She can be reached at (207) 621-4390, extension 114, or via e-mail at abarrington@kozakgayer.com