Birzon & Associates

Focus and practice areas

The firm runs two connected practices: healthcare law and corporate law. It was established in 1995 and works from Smithtown, on Long Island. Healthcare is the larger of the two, and it covers regulatory and disciplinary matters for people who hold medical licenses. The firm also takes on compliance investigations, audits, and healthcare fraud questions.

The corporate work covers business and corporate litigation. The firm advises on the sale and acquisition of medical-related practices, which links the healthcare and corporate halves of what it does. Employment questions inside medical practices fall to the firm as well. In my opinion, that pairing fits a client base built around medicine and the businesses attached to it.

Because the two sides feed each other, a single matter can touch both. A practice sale carries corporate paperwork and licensing questions at the same time. A fraud inquiry can raise employment and compliance issues in one file. The firm keeps those threads inside one office.

Who the firm represents

The client base leans heavily toward the medical field. Birzon & Associates represents medical practices, physicians, and therapists. It also works with home health care agencies and affiliated medical groups. Individuals and family members bring matters to the firm too.

The firm represents clients throughout Long Island. Many of those clients deal with hospitals, and the firm advises on how medical practices manage those relationships. That reach keeps the work close to the daily pressures a medical office handles.

A client mix like this tends to bring repeat contact. A physician who buys a practice one year may face a licensing review the next. The firm's coverage of both fields lets it stay with a client across those events. That continuity matters when the facts of an old matter bear on a new one.

The lawyer who leads the firm

Mitchell J. Birzon is the Managing Partner, and his background shapes where the firm puts its attention. He graduated from Georgetown and the New England School of Law. His own work covers healthcare regulatory and disciplinary matters.

Birzon assists physicians, dentists, psychologists, and physical and occupational therapists. He handles compliance investigations and audits for them. He also advises on the sale and acquisition of medical-related practices. That range gives the firm one steady point of experience across its healthcare files.

A firm led by one named partner puts a clear face on the work. Clients know whose judgment guides a regulatory response or a practice sale. Birzon's role as Managing Partner places that responsibility with him. In my opinion, that clarity helps when a matter turns on close calls about a license or a compliance finding.

Admissions and bar service

Birzon's court admissions reach well beyond New York's trial courts. He is admitted in New York State and in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He also holds admission before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

His bar work stays close to health law. He has chaired the Suffolk County Bar Association's Health and Hospital Law Committee three times. He was appointed to the association's Grievance Committee as well. As a reviewer, I read that record as steady, long-running involvement in how the local bar handles health law and attorney conduct.

Committee service of this kind puts a lawyer near the rules before they reach a client's case. A grievance committee weighs complaints about attorney conduct. A health law committee tracks the statutes and board practices that govern medical licensees. Both keep Birzon in regular contact with the systems his clients answer to.

How disciplinary matters and audits usually proceed

Regulatory and disciplinary matters in medicine follow a set path. A complaint or an audit finding often starts the process. State licensing boards and professional conduct panels then review the facts. A licensee can respond in writing, produce records, and appear at a hearing before any decision arrives.

Compliance investigations and audits run on their own timeline. Auditors ask for documents, billing records, and internal policies. A firm handling this work reads the request, collects the paperwork, and prepares the client's account of what happened. That is the ground Birzon & Associates covers on its healthcare side.

Healthcare fraud questions fall under this same framework. Government payers and their contractors flag billing that looks off, and a response has to explain the records. A licensee often needs to show intent, documentation, and the reasoning behind the coding. The firm's audit and compliance work overlaps directly with these fraud inquiries.

The transactional and litigation work

Buying or selling a medical practice carries steps beyond a routine business sale. The parties value the practice, review the rules on patient records, and sort out which licenses and contracts carry over. Payer agreements and staff arrangements need attention before a deal closes. The firm advises on these medical-practice sales and acquisitions.

Business and corporate litigation rounds out the corporate side. Disputes here can involve contracts, ownership, or the operation of a medical business. Birzon & Associates represents clients when those disagreements reach a courtroom.