Mr. Gruitza focuses his practice on health care transactions, complex referral source arrangements, and regulatory compliance. He has knowledge and experience addressing federal health care program requirements; fraud, waste, and abuse enforcement; health care marketing for laboratories, hospitals, and physician groups (both direct-to-consumer and co-marketing arrangements); Medicare Part B, physician contracts, and group service agreements. Mr. Gruitza has designed, implemented, and managed numerous large-scale ethics and compliance programs, and he has successfully counseled clients through government and commercial payer audits, overpayments, OIG self-disclosure protocol, and various administrative enforcement actions.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Mr. Gruitza served as vice president of legal and compliance for one of Florida's largest value-based care platforms. He is the former chief compliance officer for one of Palm Beach County's premier regional medical centers and spent four years as a hospital compliance and privacy officer with Tenet Healthcare, where he managed the compliance programs for multiple South Florida hospitals and affiliated outpatient care and diagnostic centers. In addition to compliance, his legal background includes globally recognized academic research institutions and medical centers, having served as in-house corporate compliance counsel with the Cleveland Clinic Florida and as a law clerk with the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine's Office of General Counsel.
Mr. Gruitza is certified in health care compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association and is a Florida CME lecturer on medical ethics, law, and policy. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University Miami School of Law, teaching a course on health care fraud and compliance.