Elpida Velmahos
Associate
Elpida advises healthcare providers, physician groups, urgent care facilities, and other healthcare organizations on a broad range of regulatory, transactional, and operational matters.
As an associate in Verrill’s Health Care Group, Elpida works closely with clients to navigate complex federal and state healthcare laws, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), Stark Law, False Claims Act (FCA), HIPAA/HITECH, Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) requirements, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations and guidance, and state licensing and board requirements.
Elpida advises clients on regulatory approvals and compliance matters, including Determination of Need proceedings, Change of Ownership transactions, FDA recalls, and healthcare privacy and governance issues. She also counsels healthcare businesses on entity formation and organizational structures, including professional corporations, professional limited liability companies, and management services organization (MSO) arrangements that support relationships between clinical providers and non-clinical business entities.
Her practice includes representing buyers and sellers in healthcare transactions, where she assists with transaction structuring, due diligence, and the preparation and negotiation of purchase agreements and ancillary compliance documentation. Elpida also drafts and negotiates a wide variety of commercial agreements, including employment agreements, master services agreements, vendor contracts, confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, restrictive covenant agreements, commercial leases, and operating agreements.
In addition, Elpida advises healthcare clients on emerging issues affecting the industry, including concierge medicine and private practice models, medical spas, IV therapy providers, weight management businesses, and the contractual, privacy, and regulatory implications of artificial intelligence technologies. She regularly prepares and updates healthcare compliance documentation, including business associate agreements, privacy notices, consent forms, and related practice policies.
Elpida has a particular interest in the evolving legal and regulatory landscape surrounding artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Elpida earned her J.D., with a concentration in Health and Biomedical Law, from Suffolk University Law School, where she served as Symposium Editor and Staff Editor of the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law. She also holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a B.S. in Human Physiology from Boston University. Her multidisciplinary legal and public health background provides clients with a practical understanding of both the regulatory and operational challenges facing healthcare organizations. She is fluent in Spanish and Greek.
She is the author of published scholarship on healthcare and reproductive law and has contributed to research involving healthcare policy, outcomes, and public health issues.
Outside of the office, Elpida actively contributes to the Greek community through her involvement in the Hellenic Bar Associate and The Hellenic Initiative.
Services/Industries
Education
- Suffolk University Law School (J.D.)
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (M.P.H.)
- Boston University (B.S.)
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts