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Attorney Biedak focuses his practice in the areas of health care law, small business and insurance law.  Frank represents numerous Massachusetts health care providers and hopes that re-locating his practice to the Center of the City will permit him the opportunity to counsel more local medical professionals.

Attorney Biedak’s health law practice includes Compliance programs and regulatory compliance, managed care disputes, payment disputes, contractual analysis, and  licensure disputes in front of the Division of Professional Licensure, and State Boards.  Attorney Biedak has implemented numerous Compliance programs for Massachusetts health care providers, including physical therapists, chiropractors and Medical Doctors.

Attorney Biedak has challenged large Massachusetts insurance companies, including Blue Cross Blue Shield for failing to comply with Massachusetts law governing timely notice of billing and payment criteria changes.  Attorney Biedak also presented the inconsistency with BCBSMA’s practice of paying for only CPT code 98940 services, forcing Massachusetts chiropractic physicians to bill all services under that code, regardless of the actual manipulations performed.  Since that time, BCBSMA now accepts 98941, 98942 CPT codes for reimbursement.

Attorney Biedak has represented a large Massachusetts emergency medicine group and a start-up telemedicine entity, PhoneDOCTORx.  This young and expanding entity has improved access to care for patients in skilled nursing facilities, improved the quality of care by assuring timely physician response and assuring that the patients’ needs are met at the most appropriate level of service and has actually reduced the costs of care as patients formerly transferred to over-crowded Emergency Rooms, are now, in many cases, able to be treated right in their skilled facilities.

Through litigation and deposition, Attorney Biedak exposed a company known as Medical Matrix Systems, who evidently contracted with One Beacon Insurance Company to perform “computer reviews” of chiropractic bills and records.  The insurer represented to chiropractors that if they did not accept the “computer reductions” the claim would be sent out for peer review, where it was likely that the chiropractor reviewing the claims would cut the bill further.   Attorney Biedak discovered that the owner of the Medical Matrix System was a chiropractic physician, who also served as the chiropractor who performed the peer reviews that further reduced bills.  Attorney Biedak’s suit exposed this scheme to defraud chiropractors of payment for medically necessary services.  The insurer no longer uses Medical Matrix Systems.

Attorney Biedak represents numerous Massachusetts businesses, including start-ups, as well as

established entities.  Attorney Biedak has incorporated numerous Massachusetts corporations, guided corporations through day to day operational, budgetary, strategic planning, employment law matters, and litigation support.

Attorney Biedak filed a Superior Court action against a private dam owner, individuals, and both the City of Taunton and the State for improper and illegal construction of a temporary dam adjacent to Morey’s Bridge. The suit was dropped when the Attorney General’s Office took up action, and ultimately issued enforcement orders against both the dam’s owner, Jefferson Development Partners, and Help Save the Lake, the individuals and group responsible to erecting the illegal cofferdam.

Attorney Biedak resides in Taunton with his wife and two children.

Education and “Real Life” Health Care Administrative Experience:

Unlike many of his peers, Attorney Biedak spent more than a decade working in Massachusetts hospitals.  Frank was the Assistant Director of Medical Records at Mass General, in Boston, the Director of Medical Records and Utilization Review at St. Luke’s Hospital, and the Director of Quality Practice, (Risk Management, Medical Staff, Peer Review, Patient Care Assessment, Utilization Management, Discharge Planning, Managed Care Contracting and Credentialing.)  Additionally, Attorney Biedak, coordinated the physician component of an extremely favorable Joint Commission survey at Tobey Hospital.  For over six months, Attorney Biedak worked full-time with administration and physician leaders at Hawthorn Medical, a large multi-specialty group in Southeastern, Massachusetts.

“Over the years, I have found that my “hands on” work in hospitals and physician practices has afforded tremendous insight into my clients’ struggles and needs. Understanding how the “healthcare system works” and my clients’ role in the same can lead to most favorable results and help eliminate some of the time spent by other attorneys in translation.”  

Honesty, integrity, and assertiveness is not always easy to find in a law office. Please considerer, contacting Attorney Biedak when you need to protect your legal interests.

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Frank E. Biedak ESQ.

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Taunton, MA  02780

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