Betsy R. Malik is a partner at Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Greenberg, Formato & Einiger, LLP.

Ms. Malik focuses her practice on a broad range of health law issues. Ms. Malik specializes in the representation of nursing home and other health care providers including dialysis facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, pharmacies, home health agencies, adult care facilities and physician groups.  She represents them on transactions and counsels them on regulatory, compliance, and patient rights' issues; ancillary provider and managed care agreements; Medicare, Medicaid and third party reimbursement; fraud and abuse issues; and surveillance and enforcement matters. She also handles appeals before the Department of Health and Human Services Departmental Appeals Board.

Ms. Malik develops and implements corporate compliance and HIPAA compliance programs for nursing homes and other health care providers and provides assistance on internal investigations involving compliance issues. She counsels physicians on employment, licensure and compliance issues, as well as advises them on how to structure their business arrangements so as to be in compliance with the self-referral and fraud and abuse laws. In addition, Ms. Malik also represents physicians, pharmacies, and other health care providers on OIG, Medicare, DMERC and OMIG overpayment audits and exclusion proceedings.

Ms. Malik has substantial experience and skill representing nursing facilities at administrative and judicial proceedings at all levels involving challenges to various regulations and statutes.

She has been a presenter at industry associations, including New York State Health Facilities Association,  New York State Bar Association's Health Law and Long Term Care Sections, and the Hospital and Health Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). She is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Section and the American Health Lawyers Association and is a charter member of the Rotary Club of Gold Coast/Lake Success.

Ms. Malik received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, where she was the Notes and Comments Editor of the Labor Law Journal. Ms. Malik is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.