Miriam L. Germer, M.L.E.
- Lawyer
- Specialist Lawyer for Medical Law
- Healthcare Compliance Officer (HCO)
Office Hannover
T +49 511 899379 - 26
F +49 511 899379 - 76
E miriam.germer(at)brandi.net
Languages: English, German
About me
- Born in 1976
- Studied law at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, completing the 1st state exam
- Master's program in "European legal practice" at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover and Université de Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), earning the academic title of "Magister Legum Europae" (M.L.E.)
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf with positions at BEITEN BURKHARDT in Cologne and Buse Heberer Fromm in Sydney, as well as at the German embassy in Budapest
- Second state bar exam 2007
- Attorney with BEITEN BURKHARDT in Düsseldorf 2007 - 2008
- Attorney with Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH in Hanover 2008 - 2011
- Specialist attorney in medical law 2010
- Attorney with Dr. Rüping & Partner mbB in Hanover 2011 - 2012
- Legal advisor and deputy head of the legal department, as well as head of the area board at KRH Klinikum Region Hannover GmbH 2013 - 2017
- Joined the firm in 2017
- Healthcare Compliance Officer (HCO) 2018
Expertise
Compliance
- Anti-corruption compliance
- Determination of the specific requirements for a compliance system in consideration of the existing compliance culture
- Development of customized compliance guidelines ("Code of Conduct")
Medical law
Insurance physician law and insurance dentist law
- Purchase of medical practices
- Sale of medical practices
- Admission
- Consulting and representation in case of a 50% admission
- Subsequent admission
- Employment authorizations
- Job sharing
- Authorization
- Establishment of joint practices, consulting and representation
- Establishment of professional partnerships (group practices), consulting and representation
- Establishment of regional professional partnerships, consulting and representation
- Establishment of partial professional partnerships, consulting and representation
- Establishment of branch offices, consulting and representation
- Establishment of healthcare center, consulting and representation
- Establishment of shared laboratory services, consulting and representation
- Establishment of equipment sharing schemes, consulting and representation
- Fee disputes
- Consulting and representation in case of audits
- Consulting and representation in case of plausibility checks
- Consulting and representation in case of disciplinary proceedings
- Consulting and representation in connection with allegations in the area of "referrals against remuneration"
- Consulting and representation in case of selective agreements
Corporate law, contract law and professional law of healing professions
- Establishment of regional professional partnerships, partial professional partnerships, branch offices, healthcare centers, shared laboratory services, equipment sharing schemes and pharmacies as well as consulting and representation in these cases
- Consulting and representation in case of the cooperation projects of insurance physicians and hospitals
- Partnership agreements for joint practices, professional partnerships (group practices), healthcare centers, shared laboratory services and equipment sharing schemes
- Practice lease agreements
- Employment agreements
- Professional regulations for physicians
- Professional regulations for dentists
- Professional regulations for pharmacists
- Professional regulations for alternative practitioners
- Professional regulations for physiotherapists
- Consulting and representation in case of fee disputes of private physicians in accordance with the GOÄ (German act on physician's fees)
- Consulting and representation in case of fee disputes of private physicians in accordance with the GOZ (German act on dentist's fees)
- Consulting and representation in case of fee disputes of alternative practitioners
- Consulting and representation in case of fee disputes of physiotherapists
- Consulting and representation in case of fee disputes between insurance physicians and the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
Hospital law and chief physician contract law
- Hospital planning
- Hospital financing
- Consulting and representation for the conclusion and enforcement of chief physician contracts
Pharmaceutical law, medical device law and law on the advertising of medicinal products
- Consulting and representation of producers
- Consulting and representation during marketing
- Consulting with regard to distinction from other product groups
- Product liability
- Consulting and representation of physicians, alternative practitioners, hospitals and other healthcare providers with regard to inadmissible advertising
Nursing home law and care regulations
- Consulting and representation of nursing home operators
- Consulting and representation in disputes with health insurance providers and nursing care funds
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kassenarztrecht e.V.
- Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medizinrecht des Deutschen Anwaltverein e.V.
- Griffelkunst e.V.