Robert A. Polisky

Robert A. Polisky is a Los Angeles health care lawyer at the Law Offices of Robert A. Polisky with more than 20 years of experience in transactional, regulatory, and general business law. He represents hospitals, medical groups, accountable care organizations, management companies, billing companies, imaging centers, cancer treatment centers, surgery centers, laboratories, equipment lessors, and health technology companies. He advises these clients on complex healthcare arrangements, compliance obligations, business relationships, and operational legal issues affecting their organizations across matters.

Robert earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Illinois and his B.A., with high honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is admitted in California and previously held an Alabama admission that is now inactive. He also served as a federal judicial law clerk after law school. His academic training and early government experience helped shape his longstanding focus on healthcare law and regulated business matters.

Robert structures, drafts, and negotiates healthcare transactions involving joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, management agreements, leases, professional services agreements, clinical trial agreements, and business formations. He also advises on Stark Law, anti-kickback rules, false claims issues, HIPAA, Medicare, licensure, accreditation, and corporate practice of medicine requirements. His prior in-house experience gives him a practical perspective on legal risk, compliance programs, contracts, governance, business operations, and client objectives across complex matters.

Robert A. Polisky has been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer from 2020 through 2025 and holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He has served in healthcare-related professional and nonprofit leadership roles and has written and spoken on HIPAA, fraud and abuse, Stark Law, and related subjects. His practice combines industry knowledge, regulatory experience, transactional judgment, and practical business-focused counseling for healthcare providers, companies, and organizations alike.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney/Owner, Law Offices of Robert A. Polisky
• Member, American Health Law Association
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Healthcare Law Section & Executive Committee
• Member, State Bar of California

Licensed State

• California

Education

• University of Illinois
  Juris Doctor (JD) Cum Laude
• University of California
  Bachelor of Arts

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