Mayan Tahan

Mayan advises clients regarding operational and regulatory matters including health care licensing, Medicare and Medicaid certification, HIPAA breach reporting, and clinical research agreements. In addition, she assists clients with a variety of business transactions and drafts associated agreements. Prior to joining the firm, Mayan represented the Arizona Department of Health Services, Licensing Division as an Assistant Attorney General, worked in-house at a large Arizona company providing regulatory advice and negotiating and drafting a variety of agreements, and practiced corporate law at a large Phoenix law firm.

EDUCATION AND BAR ADMISSIONS

• J.D., University of Arizona, 1998, magna cum laude; member, Order of the Coif; member, Arizona Law Review
• B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1995, cum laude
• Admitted in Arizona, 1998

CLERKSHIPS

• Hon. Thomas A. Zlaket, Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court, 1998-99

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Advising and assisting health care providers with state licensure, federal health care program certification, and Joint Commission compliance matters
• Advising health care providers regarding the applicability of various federal and state laws to their practices
• Assisting health care providers with compliance investigations, including drafting informal dispute resolution statements, corrective action plans, and clarification statements
• Assisting health care providers with defense of governmental actions, including representation in licensure and certification-related administrative proceedings and enforcement actions
• Assisting health care providers in HIPAA compliance matters, drafting business associate agreements, and HIPAA breach reporting and related OCR investigations
• Assisting health care providers in drafting and negotiating clinical trial agreements
• Representing business organizations in contractual matters, including negotiating and drafting various agreements
• Co-author of the Consent and Health Information Resource Manual (Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, 2009) (publication pending)