Suzanne J. Scrutton

Practice Areas

• Health Care
  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Behavioral Health Care, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, and Child Welfare
  • Health Care Litigation
    • Health Care Antitrust Litigation
    • Health Care False Claims Act Actions/Civil and Criminal Investigations
    • Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers
    • Provider and Patient Rights/Medicaid Litigation
    • Regulatory Compliance Challenges/Licensure and Certification
    • Reimbursement, Contract, and Fraud and Abuse Litigation
  • Health Care Regulatory Practice
  • Hospice and Palliative Care Providers
  • Hospitals/Health Care Operations
  • Joint Ventures/Hospital-Physician Collaborations
  • Long Term Care Facilities
  • Managed Care
  • Privacy and HIPAA Compliance/Health Information Technology
  • Reimbursement Counseling/Fraud and Abuse Compliance
  • State and Federal Health Care Government Relations
• Labor and Employment
• Litigation
  • Health Care Litigation
    • Health Care Antitrust Litigation
    • Health Care False Claims Act Actions/Civil and Criminal Investigations
    • Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers
    • Provider and Patient Rights/Medicaid Litigation
    • Regulatory Compliance Challenges/Licensure and Certification
    • Reimbursement, Contract, and Fraud and Abuse Litigation

Industries

• Health Care Services

Education

• Capital University Law School, J.D., 1989
  Capital University Law Review, Member, 1987-1989, Executive Articles Editor, 1988-1989
• Albion College, B.A.,1986, cum laude with Honors

Bar & Court Admissions

• Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Ms. Scrutton is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the health care group.  She has specific expertise representing providers in the fields of long term care, behavioral health and developmental disabilities. Ms. Scrutton has extensive experience with regulatory issues, Medicaid reimbursement and regulations, as well as contract negotiations with various payor sources. 

Her notable experience includes:

• Initiated successful litigation on behalf of providers of services to the developmentally disabled challenging the right of County Boards of DD to require contracts as a condition of participation in Ohio's Medicaid program
• On behalf of providers and trade association, participated in drafting and negotiating comprehensive overhaul of Ohio's Medicaid DD reimbursement system
• Participated in numerous Administrative Proceedings and other litigation involving licensure, certification, revocation and suspension of certification, granting or denying of certificate of need, and other regulatory issues concerning providers in the long term care, developmental disabilities, and behavioral health systems
• Provided counsel and guidance to several health care trade associations during Ohio's biennial budget process, relative to complex Medicaid reimbursement and health care regulatory issues

Ms. Scrutton is a frequent speaker at developmental disability and long term care trade association meetings and has spoken at Ohio Provider Resource Association Meetings since 1998.

Ms. Scrutton received her J.D. from Capital University Law School where she was a member and Executive Articles Editor of the Capital University Law Review.  She received her B.A. cum laude with honors from Albion College.

Before joining Vorys, Ms. Scrutton served as Chief Legal Counsel for the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services and Legal Counsel to the Ohio Office of Budget and Management and the State Controlling Board.

Professional and Community Activities

• Prevent Blindness Ohio, Board of Trustees, Corporate Counsel, 2006-present
• Ohio Human Rights Bar Association, Board of Trustees, 1995-2000; President, 1997-1999
• American Health Lawyers Association, Member

Events

• OPRA 2011 Fall Conference Health Care Reform: Implications for Providers
• 2010 OANH Annual Convention - New Frontiers in Medicaid Litigation: Federal Court Legal Challenges to State Medicaid Reimbursement Rates

Publications

• “Home Rule is the Golden Rule: Nice in Concept, Difficult in Reality,” Business First, May 25, 2000

• Health Care Alert: Ohio Department of Health Publishes County Need Information for Inter-County Bed CON Applications Submitted July 2, 2012 through July 30, 2012
• Client Alert: Enhanced State Medicaid Match Authorized Through June 2011
• Client Alert: Summary of Health Care Reform Impacts on Long Term Care Providers
• Client Alert: Certificate of Need Program to Allow Applications for Inter-County Bed Relocations
• Client Alert: OIG Outlines Compliance Priorities for Nursing Homes