Ronald Ravikoff, Esq.

Ronald Ravikoff, Esq. has significant experience in health care mediation, arbitration, complex litigation, and dispute counseling for both plaintiffs and defendants. Because of his extensive experience in parallel criminal and civil matters, he has become intimately involved with health care matters, initially focusing on government investigations, but expanding to include providers, health plans, hospitals, and patients. Mr. Ravikoff is on the AHLA panel of neutrals. He is a retired senior litigation partner of Akerman Senterfitt. Prior to Akerman, he was the Managing Partner of the Miami office of Zuckerman Spaeder for over 25 years.

ADR Health Care Experience and Qualifications

• Participated in numerous healthcare mediations and arbitrations as both a neutral and an advocate
• Participated in numerous CLEs as a speaker on healthcare disputes and ADR
• AHLA panel neutral
• Certified Civil Court Mediator by the Florida Supreme Court
• Adjunct Professor of University of Miami Scholl of Law teaching negotiation and business dispute resolution techniques
• Author: HIPPA, Protected Heathcare Information and ADR: What Rules Apply? Inside Counsel, September 2014
• Presenter: What Lawyers Need to Know about Drafting Arbitration Clauses for Healthcare Clients. (CLE March 10, 2015)

Representative Health Care ADR Matters

• Mediation among members of hospital physicians group over financial disputes
• Mediation between Florida Agency for Health Care and Medicaid provider over license revocation
• Arbitration between Health Care insurance company and physicians management company regarding dispute over claims paid
• Arbitration among members of physician group over expulsion of member
• Mediation involving Medicare fraud claims among private parties, Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, the Florida Attorney General, and the Florida Agency for Health Care
• Mediation between resort/spa and adjoining residents over creation of medical facility on the premises
• Mediation involving national manufacturer of medical devices and retailers for contractual violations of distribution agreement
• Mediation between medical data management company and new purchaser of company owning the data concerning data protection and HIPPA violations issues
• Arbitration between national hospital chain and national health care insurer over pricing policies resulting in a difference of over a billion dollars in sought reimbursements
• Mediation involving national manufacturer of medical products and retailer for distribution contract violations
• Mediation and arbitration between hospital and contract provider of emergency room physicians involving termination of contract
• Mediation between two biotechnical manufacturers over patent infringement on certain enzymes
• Mediation in class action by patients against national hospital company over pricing policies for uninsured patients
• Mediation between Florida Department of Labor and Florida based retail chain over self-insured status for worker compensation
• Mediation between company and ousted company president over ownership of biological patent rights

Representative Health Care Matters as Counsel

• Health care Antitrust: Representation of a group of independent temporary nursing service suppliers against hospital district alleging antitrust boycott
• Health care Fraud & Abuse and Class Actions: Representation of a Florida-based chain of nursing homes in false claims action brought by Department of Justice and Florida Attorney General
• Representation of a medical device distributor in a distribution litigation involving claims by the manufacturer
• Representation of a medical patient data company in a dispute involving provision of services
• Representation of a national hospital company in a national class action alleging overcharging of services
• Representation of a national hospital company in a dispute involving a hospital based physician group contract dispute
• Representation of a national hospital company in HIPAA litigation

Published Health Care Decisions

• Florida Breckinridge, Inc. v. Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 1999-1 Trade Cases 72414 (S.D. Fla. 1997) 
• All Care Nursing Service, Inc. v. Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Inc., 887 F.2d 1535 (11th Cir. 1989) (antitrust boycott)
• All Care Nursing Service, Inc. v. Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Inc., 1989-1 Trade Cases, 68506 (S.D. Fla. 1989) (antitrust/price fixing boycott)
• Call v. Tirone, 526 So. 2d 533 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988) (evidence/medical malpractice)