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Barry devotes his practices to healthcare law and has extensive experience representing institutional and individual providers of healthcare services, organized delivery systems, independent practice associations, and other related business enterprises in the healthcare sector. His practice focuses on corporate and regulatory healthcare-related law, including accountable care organization development, integrated delivery systems, managed care, hospital reimbursement, physician practices, third party payor appeals, governmental payor disputes, provider network contracting, hospital vendor contracting, general hospital corporate representation, claim disputes between individuals and their health plans, and related areas of healthcare practice. Barry also serves as Patient Care Ombudsman in hospital bankruptcy matters.

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Experience

Legal Work Highlights

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Prior to joining Gibbons, Barry was a partner in a leading healthcare boutique law firm that had a broad and diverse clientele of New Jersey hospitals. Earlier, he was in-house counsel for a large healthcare services corporation and HMO, where his responsibilities focused on physician and ancillary healthcare provider network contracting, healthcare facilities contracting, HMO operations, workers compensation managed care organizations, traditional indemnity provider networks, and management services organizations. He also provided legal support to the HMO’s Credentialing, Grievance, Medical Management, Peer Review, and Quality Improvement Committees.

Barry’s academic focus prior to law involved healthcare policy analysis, quality assurance theory, and technology and quality assessment technology.

Examples of matters in which Barry has provided legal services to healthcare clients include:

  • Providing general legal support to multiple large New Jersey hospital systems, including fraud and abuse counseling, employment matters, exclusive physician group contracting, vendor contracting, major medical equipment financing and procurement, employee benefits, and related matters.
  • Representing hospital systems and individual providers in their disputes with local health insurance companies, managed care companies, HMOs, PPOs and similarities, including disputes regarding reimbursement, credentialing, overpayment, and medical necessity determinations.
  • Representing a large multi-specialty physician practice in the negotiations, development, and design of a pilot accountable care organization (ACO) program involving two large New Jersey self funded employee health plans, a third party administrator, and the group practice. The ACO pilot examined the total cost of care for patients included in the pilot and compared those costs to a matched comparison group. The ACO pilot program includes provisions for distributions of savings among all three entities if the total cost is reduced through best practices and improved case management by the multi-specialty group.
  • Representing numerous physicians in their negotiation of employment agreements with hospitals, including Department Chairman, teaching appointments, administrative appointments, clinical positions, and other positions.
  • Representing a large New Jersey hospital system in its development and negotiation of single-specialty exclusive physician group professional services agreements for emergency department, radiology, anesthesiology, and intensivist/critical care.
  • Representing single-specialty physician groups in their contractual negotiations with large New Jersey hospitals to provide emergency department services on an exclusive basis.
  • Representing a New Jersey hospital system in its development and negotiation of numerous forms of employed physician agreements.
  • Representing a large New Jersey hospital system in its negotiation of various forms of medical equipment financing and finance lease arrangements.

Education

Rutgers School of Law – Newark|University of Wisconsin|University of Wisconsin

J.D.|M.S.|B.S.

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Clerkships

Barry served as a clerk for the court(s) and judge(s) below:

Judicial intern to the Honorable Alfred M. Wolin, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 1992

Courts

Barry is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

State of New Jersey|State of Wisconsin|Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Recognized by Best Lawyers®, 2026 Edition: Health Care Law

Recognized by Best Lawyers®: “Lawyer of the Year,” Health Care Law in Newark, NJ (2018 Edition)

Included on the New Jersey Super Lawyers list, Health Care

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

New Jersey State Bar Association
Health and Hospital Law Section

American Bar Association
Health Law Section
ACO Task Force

Wisconsin Bar Association

American Health Lawyers Association

Law360 Healthcare Editorial Advisory Board Member, 2013

State’s Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission

Law.com Online Publication
Contributor

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

New Jersey Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission
Former Commissioner

 

Friends Health Connection, Inc.
Former Trustee and Past-Chair, Board of Trustees