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Charles F. Dingman Partner
Practice Focus:	Health Law
Office:	Augusta, ME
Phone:	207.623.5300
Fax:	207.623.2914
Email:	cdingman@preti.com
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Charles F. Dingman's practice focuses on addressing reimbursement, regulatory, and government contracting issues for a wide range of clients, with a particular concentration on the health care sector and its regulatory challenges. He has advised and advocated on behalf of hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, mental health and social service providers, nursing facilities, and other health care providers on a wide range of economic, policy, and corporate issues. The focal points of his practice include Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, licensing and certificate of need issues, compliance issues, responses to civil and criminal fraud and abuse investigations, corporate restructuring, and government procurement issues, including appeals of state contract awards.

He has prosecuted appeals to the federal Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) and worked with hospitals on Medicare issues such as provider-based status, and critical access hospital designations, and reimbursement. Charlie frequently participates in hearings and informal negotiations before the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and handles appeals of State contract award decisions. He also participates in the hearings and deliberations of the Maine Legislature on health care and government contracting matters. Drawing upon his extensive experience in public service, he also regularly handles issues before a variety of other administrative bodies, including Maine licensing boards, the Bureau of Insurance, and the Division of Purchases. He has argued appeals before Maine's Superior and Supreme Judicial courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Charlie joined Preti Flaherty in 1992, immediately following his service as the first General Counsel for the Maine Health Care Finance Commission. There, he was responsible for the Commission's rulemaking and adjudicatory hearing process, and represented the agency in State and Federal courts and before the Legislature, from 1984 through 1992.

Prior to the creation of the Health Care Finance Commission, he served as Senior Counsel and Hearing Examiner at the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC), where he handled utility rate and service cases, and participated in judicial and administrative proceedings arising from the AT&T antitrust settlement. He has combined his health care and telecommunications experience to counsel clients regarding the application of telecommunications technology to health care.

Charlie speaks to varied audiences on health care, administrative law, and economic regulation. He belongs to the American Health Lawyers Association and currently serves as the AHLA's Maine reporter for its Health Reform Education Task Force. He is a member of the Maine State Bar Association and its Health and Administrative Law sections, having served on the Executive Committee of the Health Law Section from 1985 until 1992. He is listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America.

Charlie currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Maine Equal Justice Partners and Chair of the Campaign for Justice. He is also a member of the board of the Justice Action Group. From 1983-2003, he served on the Board of Directors of Maine School Administrative District 52, which includes the towns of Greene, Leeds and Turner, serving as chairperson of the Board for 17 of those years. He frequently serves as moderator of town meetings in Leeds, Maine.