Profilo
Tricia A. Asaro serves as Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Health Care & FDA Practice, Administrative Shareholder of the Albany office, and Chair of the Albany office Health Care & FDA Practice. She concentrates her practice on health care, insurance, and government law and policy, with a particular focus on complex regulatory, compliance, licensure, and transactional matters.
Tricia advises health plans, health care providers, investors, private equity sponsors, and other stakeholders across the country on a broad range of regulatory and business issues affecting the health care and insurance industries. She is widely recognized for her ability to navigate highly regulated environments and develop practical strategies to address complex legal, operational, and strategic challenges.
While her practice is national in scope, Tricia brings particularly deep experience with New York’s health care and insurance regulatory framework. She has wide-ranging experience working with and before the New York State Department of Health, Department of Financial Services, State Education Department, Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and Office of the Attorney General. Her understanding of the regulatory priorities, approval processes, and enforcement considerations of these agencies enables clients to successfully navigate matters involving licensure, compliance, corporate transactions, governmental oversight, and regulatory change.
Clients frequently turn to Tricia for guidance on their most significant and complex matters, including regulatory approvals, change-of-control transactions, mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, corporate restructurings, compliance program development, governance issues, reimbursement matters, and government investigations. She has deep experience leading the regulatory aspects of transactions involving managed care organizations and other health care entities and is particularly adept at coordinating matters involving multiple regulators and overlapping legal frameworks.
Tricia’s experience spans both the provider and payer sectors, allowing her to offer perspective on the legal and business issues affecting the health care industry. Known for her strategic judgment, practical advice, and deep regulatory knowledge, she serves as a trusted advisor to organizations seeking to manage risk, pursue regulatory objectives, and advance critical business initiatives in an increasingly complex health care environment.
Concentrations
- Health care law
- Insurance law
- Governmental and administrative law
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Lead counsel to EmblemHealth, Inc. in connection with its completed $350 million sale of its ConnectiCare division to Molina Healthcare, Inc.
- Counsel to ArchCare, the Continuing Care Community of the Archdiocese of New York, in connection with the sale of its Managed-Long Term care program to VillageCareMAX.
- Lead advisor to SantaFe Healthcare, Inc. in connection with its completed sale of AvMed, Inc. to Sentara Healthcare.
- Co-lead counsel to Affinity Health Plan in connection with its completed $380 million sale to Molina Healthcare.
- New York regulatory counsel to Centene Corporation in connection with its completed $17.3 billion merger with WellCare Health Plans.
- Regulatory counsel to Centene Corporation in its completed $3.75 billion acquisition of not-for-profit health plan Fidelis Care.
- Regulatory counsel to Senior Whole Health in its completed $400 million sale to Magellan Health.
- Lead negotiator for New York Health Plan Association members in Medicaid Managed Care contract negotiations with the New York State Department of Health.
- New York regulatory counsel to WellCare Health Plans in its completed $800 million acquisition of Universal American Corp.
- Co-lead counsel to MVP Health Care in its completed acquisition of Hudson Health Plan.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, City & State, Upstate Power 100, 2025
- Listed, City & State, Above & Beyond, 2022
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2011-2012, 2022-2026
- Listed, City & State, The Power of Diversity: Women 100, 2021-2024
- Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2018, 2020-2026
- Health Care Law, 2020-2026
- Insurance Law, 2023 and 2026
- Team Member, "Top Listed – Government Relations," 2018
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States
- Healthcare - Health Insurers, 2014-2015, 2017-2026
- Leading Partners, 2025-2026
- Healthcare - Service Providers, 2021, 2024-2026
- Healthcare - Health Insurers, 2014-2015, 2017-2026
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2013-2015 and 2017-2025
- The 16 Strongest Firms for ‘Go-To Outside Counsel’ Insurance Work,” 2016
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Government Relations Law Firm of the Year," 2014
- Member, Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, 2008-Present
- Leadership Circle 2016-Present
- Director, 2008-2018, Present
- Advisory Council, 2018-2022
- Board Chair, 2016-2018
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Health Law Section
- Vice Chair, Managed Care & Insurance, 2025-2026
- Member, Health Law Section
- Board Member, The Doane Stuart School (Rensselaer), 2019-2023
- Attorney Mentor, Bethlehem Youth Court, 2007-Present
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Member, Capital District Women's Bar Association
- Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, The George Washington University Law School
- Notes Editor, American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal
- Diploma di maturità, cum laude, Amherst College
- New York
- District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York