About Charles Whipple, Esq., MHSA
Charles recently joined Rochester Regional Health as our new Executive Vice President, General Counsel. Charles previously served as Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and Deputy General Counsel for Tufts Medicine, Inc., an integrated health care delivery system located in the eastern Massachusetts. Prior to Tufts Medicine, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer for MelroseWakefield Healthcare, a multi-campus community hospital system outside of Boston.
Charles's practice encompasses Enterprise Risk Management, alternative risk financing, insurance, Managed Care Contracting, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement compliance, fraud & abuse/Stark law, patient care/medical ethics, physician recruitment and compensation, mergers and acquisitions. He is an active lecturer on healthcare legal, non-profit governance, risk management and patient safety and insurance topics. Charles is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, where he previously served as Chair of the In-House Counsel Practice Group. Charles is a graduate of the University Of Dayton School Of Law and holds a Master of Health Services Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.