{"id":3124,"date":"2025-09-23T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dinsmore.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=3124"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:36:24","slug":"eric-j-plinke","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.dinsmore.com\/people\/eric-j-plinke\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric J. Plinke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eric&nbsp;serves as co-chair of Dinsmore\u2019s Health Care Industry practice group. He represents a wide variety of provider entities including multi-hospital health systems, hospitals, surgery centers, medical practices, and individual providers in a wide range of health care industry and business issues. From serving as outside general counsel to transactional\/project counsel, Eric regularly advises clients regarding hospital\/medical practice mergers and acquisitions,&nbsp;affiliations, physician compensation issues, joint venture transactions and relationships, operational compliance issues and compliance program implementation and training, as well as Stark law and Anti-kickback statute analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also has significant experience addressing the wide range of regulatory issues that providers and institutions frequently encounter in the modern health care industry. These include mandatory reporting obligations, HIPAA regulations, scope of practice issues, and telemedicine. Eric has successfully represented both entities and providers in credentialing, medical staff matters, and third-party payer audits. He also has extensive experience representing entities and providers in regulatory investigations, hearings, and administrative appeals.<br><br>In 2022, Eric was credited as a published author for his portion in Thomson Reuters Health Law Handbook, 2021&nbsp;Edition. He highlights Medical Practice Act and NPDB Reporting: Trends and Implications for Physicians and Hospitals. Eric began his career in the Ohio Legislative Service Commission&#8217;s Legislative Fellow&#8217;s program in the Ohio General Assembly, and then worked&nbsp;as an attorney for the State Medical Board of Ohio. He&nbsp;is a member of the American Health Law Association and the Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys, for whom he served as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric&nbsp;serves as co-chair of Dinsmore\u2019s Health Care Industry practice group. 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