Attorney Profile

Tania Carre�o-Mederos is a member of the Public Health Trust section, where she is responsible for advising the Public Health Trust on a broad range of health care regulatory and contracting matters.

Tania has over 20 years of health law experience and is a Florida Supreme Court certified as a county and circuit/civil mediator. She began her career in 1993 as a Miami-Dade Assistant County Attorney, a position she held for over nine years, and after gaining over eleven years of private practice experience, returned to public service. During her initial term with the Miami-Dade County Attorney's office, she worked in the Public Health Trust section handling public procurement practices, commercial contracts management and disputes, emergency access (EMTALA) and trauma compliance, medical staff and personnel matters, patient rights and risk management issues, advanced directives, and estate and guardianship matters, and for a brief period, also handled public housing matters and served on advisory boards under the purview of Miami Dade County's Community Action Agency and Human Services Department.

Throughout her career, Tania has represented and advised health care providers, including state and national hospital systems, individual physicians, physician groups, professional medical associations, health care facilities and ancillary service providers. She is well versed in a wide range of health law matters, including health care business formation, licensing, governance, transactions, and operations; federal and state regulatory compliance; managed care contacting; Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement; risk management; disciplinary actions; fraud and abuse; qui tam actions; patient rights and privacy; advanced directives; emergency access; and others. She has handled arbitrations, mediations, and/or administrative appeals involving multi-million dollar disputes with managed care payors, health care personnel disciplinary actions, and Medicare overpayment determinations and terminations.