About M. Ramana Rameswaran

With practical in-house experience inside the health care and pharmaceutical industries, Ramana Rameswaran helps clients nationally throughout these industries on a range of regulatory, transactions, investigatory, and compliance matters. Whether advising private equity funds, physician practices, hospitals and health systems on structuring M&A transactions and joint ventures, or combatting fraud and abuse, Ramana is a trusted voice who understands his clients' business concerns.

Legal perspective shaped by medical knowledge and in-house experience

Muthuramanan "Ramana" Rameswaran counsels clients on major M&A transactions and joint ventures particularly involving health care private equity transactions. Ramana also provides strategic guidance on health care regulatory issues related to state and federal fraud and abuse laws, telehealth, corporate practice of medicine, operational issues, provider reimbursement, clinical trials, and more. He also assists with health care policy analysis and advocacy.

Ramana also uses his in-house experience from his time at Temple University Health System, a Philadelphia-area hospital system, and from Avantor Performance Materials, a performance materials manufacturer for chemicals in the electronics and health sciences industry, to provide outside general counsel support. In additional to traditional health care providers, Ramana has worked extensively with pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and suppliers. He has practiced health care law in both Washington, DC and Pennsylvania.

Ramana was a member of the Governing Council of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section for over four years and continues to be an active leader in the organization. He is also an Eagle Scout, an active nationally registered EMT, and an active certified emergency medical services instructor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Before attending law school, Ramana attended Temple University School of Medicine and completed course work and clinical rotations towards an MD degree. He also has worked at Merck Sharpe & Dohme, making measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in a good manufacturing practices-environment.

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Practice Focus

  • Health care entities and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers
  • Federal and state fraud and abuse compliance, including Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law compliance
  • Complex co-management, consulting and physician arrangements
  • Large-scale supply-chain arrangements, including GPO arrangements
  • Health IT and privacy
  • Corporate practice of medicine
  • 340B Drug Discount Program compliance and contracting

News

Publications

  • Pro Bono: Ambulances Need Tender Loving Care Too
    October 2011
  • Pro Bono: Fire Rehab Saves Lives and Reduces Your Liability
    September 2011
  • Atrazine is an Immune Disruptor in Adult Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens)
    2007
  • Acid Exposure is an Immune Disruptor in Adult Rana pipiens
    2006

Presentations and Events

  • A Practical Guide to The Stark Final Rule: Physician Compensation Arrangement Opportunities and Compliance Pitfalls
    Presenter
    January 7, 2021
  • American Bar Association
    Speaker | Boots on the Ground – Practical Approaches to Integrating Community and Facility COVID-19 Response
    April 9, 2020
  • American Health Lawyers Association
    Moderator | Easier Said Than Done: Challenges of Implementing Outside Counsel Advice on the Inside
    June 2018
  • American Bar Association
    Moderator | Career Choice Series: Health Law
    September 2017
  • American Bar Association Health Law Section
    Speaker | Ethics Challenges for In-House Counsel and Lawyers Who Advise Them
    March 2017
  • American Bar Association Health Law Section
    Speaker | 340B—What Attorneys Need to Know Today, Tomorrow and in the Future
    March 2016
  • American Bar Association Health Law Section
    Moderator | Applying for In-House Positions
    June 2015
Practices
Industries
Education
  • Temple University Beasley School of Law, JD
  • Widener University, BS, magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
Community Involvements
  • American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Governing Council, 2016-2020; Co-Chair – Distance Learning, 2020-present, Vice Chair, In-House Counsel Interest Group (2015-2016)
  • American Health Law Association
  • South Asian Bar Association
  • Uwchlan Ambulance Corps, EMS instructor, former member of Board of Directors, former Assistant Chief
Recognitions
  • Chester County EMS Council, Inc.
    Educator of the Year, 2015
  • Elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
    2019
  • Leadership Center for Excellence
    40 Under 40, 2019
  • National Minority Quality Forum
    40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health, 2020
  • Order of the Barrister
    2013
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars
    Washington, DC, 2020–2021
  • Temple Moot Court
    Alumni Award, 2013