Cynthia Rodriguez Rosales is an associate attorney working in BWB&O’s San Diego office. She has an extensive background in healthcare, with experience handling a wide range of legal issues, including representing hospitals, medical staff, medical foundations, ambulatory surgery centers, and health plans, with an emphasis on quality and regulatory matters.
Cynthia has regularly advised healthcare entities in privileging and credentialing of AHPs and physicians; bylaws, rules, and regulations, and policies; compliance with accreditation, licensure, and regulatory requirements; practitioner disruptive behavior, disability, and impairment; peer review investigations, corrective action, hearings, and appeals; medical staff reporting obligations; and responding to subpoenas by state agencies requesting peer review or health information. She also has experience advising hospitals and/or their medical staff on state and federal privacy laws, emergency transfer laws, call coverage policies, exclusive contracts, and telemedicine services. Cynthia’s expertise in medical staff work extends to integrating medical staffs within a healthcare system, including formal medical staff unifications and the integration of medical staff functions, such as regional coordination of credentialing and peer review duties. Cynthia’s experience in peer review extends to representing medical staff, medical foundations, medical groups, and ASCs in related matters, such as defending corrective actions required under Business and Professions Code section 80 et seq. Her peer review experience extends to drafting sharing agreements, composing Bylaws, and hearing procedures. She has also assisted clients in responding to investigations, audits, and subpoenas by state and federal health oversight agencies.
Overall, Cynthia’s experience has provided her with insight into the complex healthcare environment and allowed her to serve the interests of individual and institutional healthcare clients for nearly a decade.