A seasoned healthcare attorney with more than 12 years of experience, Nicholas Ortiz serves as Senior Associate General Counsel of Broward Health, one of the ten largest public healthcare systems in the United States.
Ortiz’s legal career has focused on representing large hospital systems in a range of transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters as both in-house and outside counsel. He has particular experience with managed care law, healthcare fraud and abuse laws, Medicare/Medicaid regulations, and antitrust law.
At Broward Health, Ortiz provides day-to-day legal guidance to the organization’s systemwide Managed Care department, among other responsibilities. He and another attorney in the legal department are jointly responsible for all legal aspects of Broward Health’s relationships with health insurers, including negotiating contracts with insurers and managing and directing outside counsel in complex litigation against insurers. He has at various times both actively litigated successful cases against health insurance companies on behalf of Broward Health as outside counsel and managed and directed such cases as Broward Health’s in-house counsel. Ortiz has actively litigated or managed cases which have recovered nearly $20 million cumulatively for Broward Health from health insurers. Ortiz also ensured that Broward Health achieved systemwide compliance with the No Surprises Act by January 2022.
Prior to joining Broward Health, Ortiz served as partner, senior counsel, and associate in the Miami office of Lash & Goldberg LLP, a healthcare litigation boutique. In that role, he primarily represented large hospital systems and physician practices in managed care litigation and government investigations. Prior to moving to Miami, he served as an associate in the antitrust practice group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC. Ortiz began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Gabriel Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Ortiz earned a B.A. in economics and history from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, and a J.D. from Columbia University in New York, NY.
