Cassie’s practice primarily involves advising health care clients on transactional and regulatory matters, including serving as regulatory counsel on health care transactions and assisting clients in establishing and implementing MSO-PC arrangements. She frequently oversees the health care regulatory aspects of complex transactions in the health care industry, including recent private equity investments in pediatric, dental, ambulatory surgery, and addiction treatment providers. She has also served as regulatory counsel to various institutional lenders in financing transactions in connection with the acquisition of health and life science industry companies. Cassie regularly acts as a subject matter expert, advising clients on HIPAA/privacy compliance, telehealth and other digital health matters, corporate practice issues, professional and facility licensing, determinations of need/certificates of need, and Medicare and Medicaid compliance. Cassie also has experience advising non-profit organizations on matters related to formation and corporate governance.
Throughout her career, Cassie has worked with providers, payors, individual patients, and a range of investors in the health care space, so she understands the unique challenges facing clients in the ever-changing health care landscape. She enjoys working with interdisciplinary teams to come up with creative solutions to her clients’ problems.
Prior to joining Mintz, Cassie worked as in-house counsel at a national senior living company. There she advised the business on matters related to state and federal health care regulations, physician arrangements, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA/privacy. Cassie’s in-house experience informs current her practice, enabling her to anticipate and relate to clients’ legal and business needs.
A member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, Cassie is particularly passionate about addressing health disparities, focusing on increasing access to reproductive health care and behavioral health services, including substance use disorder treatment. She currently serves on the Board of the South Boston Collaborative Center, a substance abuse and mental health treatment center located in South Boston.
viewpoints
Recent Executive Order Makes the Road to Increased Healthcare Transparency Unclear
July 2, 2019 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Mintz and ML Strategies Host the 4th Annual Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Industry Summit
May 10, 2019 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
Judge Dismisses FCA Claims Against Compounding Pharmacy and Private Equity Firm Owner but Allows the Government to Amend
March 13, 2019 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, Cassandra Paolillo
Independent Laboratory Settles Medical Necessity Allegations
February 20, 2019 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, Cassandra Paolillo
OIG Advisory Opinion Allows Routine Waiver of Federal Cost-Sharing Obligations
January 18, 2019 | Blog | By Karen Lovitch, Cassandra Paolillo
As 2019 Approaches, Private Equity Investment in Health Care Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
December 26, 2018 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
HPC Weighs in on Impact of Question 1
November 1, 2018 | Advisory | By Elissa Flynn-Poppey, Cassandra Paolillo, Stephen Weiner
Massachusetts HPC Health Care Cost Trends Hearing: Key Takeaways
October 24, 2018 | Blog | By Daria Niewenhous, Caitlin Beresin, Cassandra Paolillo
Final Opioid Legislation Expands Treatment Options for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Substance Use Disorder
October 5, 2018 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
The Fate of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Under the 115th Congress
November 22, 2016 | Blog | By Cassandra Paolillo
News & Press
Mintz is pleased to announce that 31 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 35 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2024.
The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 184 Mintz Attorneys across 56 Practice Areas
August 15, 2024
187 Mintz attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Notably, three Mintz attorneys received 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” awards, and 64 firm attorneys were included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Mintz's Natalie Groot and Cassandra Paolillo Named Up & Coming Lawyers by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
March 18, 2024
Mintz is pleased to share that Member Natalie Groot and Of Counsel Cassandra Paolillo have been selected by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as 2024 Excellence in Law ‘Up & Coming Lawyer’ honorees.
Fifty-Nine Attorneys Recognized as 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
October 12, 2023
Mintz is pleased to announce that 32 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 27 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2023.
Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
35 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 25 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2022.
Potential Pitfalls of Telehealth Prescribing
July 29, 2022
Events & Speaking
Tracking Technologies in Health Care
Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation
Online Event
Telehealth: What's Next?
Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation (WBL) Event
Online Event
Recognition & Awards
Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch - Health Care Law (2024, 2025)
Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars: Health Care (2022 – 2024)
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Up & Coming Lawyer (2024)
Involvement
- Member, American Health Law Association
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Board Member, South Boston Collaborative Center