Steve specializes in advising hospitals, medical staffs, physicians, medical staff services professionals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, and other health care organizations concerning the full range of health law issues. He places a particular emphasis on the intricacies of credentialing, peer review, quality assurance, and risk management. This practice includes both formal hearings and other proceedings regarding individual credentialing and peer review questions as well as advice concerning larger issues of medical staff and medical group structure and physician relations. As part of his practice, Steve has often been called upon to serve as a hearing officer or legal advisor for physician hearing committees and appellate bodies.
Steve also advises hospitals, surgery centers, medical staffs, and physician groups regarding mergers, consolidations, contracting issues, and related economic concerns.
Steve served as president of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, following a six-year stint as a member of its board of directors. He is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and enjoyed a term as a vice chairman of its Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review Practice Group. During his earlier years, Steve also served on the San Francisco Medical Society-San Francisco Bar Association Interprofessional Committee and the California Medical Association-State Bar of California Interprofessional Committee.
Steve has presented papers on credentialing and peer review issues to gatherings of the National Association Medical Staff Services, the California Association Medical Staff Services, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, the National Health Lawyers Association, the California Ambulatory Surgery Association, and the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys. He is also an editor and contributor to the American Health Lawyers Association's recently-published Peer Review Hearing Guidebook.
Publications
Peer Review Hearing Guidebook, editor and contributor, American Health Lawyers Association (September 2008)
"AstraZeneca/Zoladex Prosecution Special Bulletin," Physician Law Alert (July 2003)
"IPA Required to Extend 'Fair Procedure' to Terminated Physician," Physician Alert (May 2000)
"Special Bulletin: Lupron Investigation," Physician Law Alert (December 2001)
"Medical Staff Hearings: Some Tips from the Experts," Steven V. Schnier, Ross E. Campbell, and Robert J. Sullivan, 14 California Health Law News 52 (1994)
"Medical Staff Legal Issues," Handbook of Medical Staff Management (1990).
"Physician's Rights at Medical Staff Hearings: Evolution or Revolution," Steven V. Schnier and Robert J. Sullivan, 8 California Health Law News 7 (1988)
"Initiating the Corrective Action Process," A. Robert Singer and Steven V. Schnier, 3 QRC Advisor 1 (1987)
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Presentations
"Dealing with Aging Physicians," co-presenter, Bay Area Chapter CAMSS Continuing Education Program (October 2011)
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Honors
Best Lawyers in America (1995-2011)
Northern California Super Lawyers (2006-2011)