Professional Experience
Ms. Dutton serves as a Partner within the healthcare division of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (Manatt), and also plays a leadership role within Manatt Health Solutions (MHS), the Firm's interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice. Ms. Dutton's practice concentrates on advising clients in the healthcare industry with respect to strategic, business, public policy and regulatory matters. Ms. Dutton's clients include hospitals, community health centers, long-term care providers, foundations, government agencies, health information exchange initiatives, industry associations and consumer advocacy organizations.
Ms. Dutton has fifteen years' experience working with public health insurance programs and the healthcare safety net, and has represented a broad array of healthcare clients in navigating the legal, regulatory and political challenges of Medicaid, SCHIP and other public programs. She assists hospitals, health centers, home care agencies and other providers with issues related to business strategy and reimbursement, as well as licensure and regulatory compliance. Ms. Dutton has written extensively on the laws and systems that govern public health insurance program eligibility, and she provides strategic counsel, policy analysis and research support to foundations, think tanks and advocacy organizations for children, the disabled and other vulnerable populations.
Ms. Dutton has worked on a wide variety of projects involving use of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. Ms. Dutton is currently advising New York State on the Health Information Privacy and Security Collaboration, helping identify laws, policies and business practices that support the private and secure exchange of health information. She also recently coauthored a white paper for the American Hospital Association and is currently working on projects involving community health center participation in health information technology initiatives. She has assisted in statewide, multi-stakeholder health information exchange planning efforts in New York, California and Nebraska.
Prior to joining Manatt Ms. Dutton served for nine years at the Children's Defense Fund in New York, where she helped to develop and secure passage of legislation expanding publicly funded health insurance programs for children. Ms. Dutton received her B.A., cum laude, from Kansas State University in 1988, and her J.D. from Columbia University in 1992, where she was a James Kent Scholar.
Education
Columbia Law School, J.D., 1992
James Kent Scholar.
Kansas State University, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 1988.
Memberships & Activities
Board Member, Volunteers of Legal Service, 2007-present.
Publications
Co-Author, “Streamlining Renewal in Medicaid and SCHIP: Strategies from Other States and Lessons for New York,” United Hospital Fund, May 2008.
A. Cohen, M. Dutton, P. Boozang, J. Hudman and G. Woods, “Filling the Gaps: Medicaid, EPIC and ADAP and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit in New York,” for the United Hospital Fund, December 2006.
P. Boozang, M. Dutton and J. Hudman, “Citizen Documentation Requirements in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Lessons from New York,” Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, June 2006.
W. Bernstein, M. Dutton, L. Evans and A. Fiori, “Health Information Exchange Projects: What Hospitals and Health Systems Need to Know,” American Hospital Association, April 2006.
D. Bachrach and M. Dutton, “Strategic Approaches to Medicaid, Winning Legal Strategies in Health Care: Leading Lawyers on Industry Regulations & Creating Legal Game Plans,” Aspatore Books, September 2005.
M. Dutton, J. Lytle, L. Braslow, C. Odnoha, B. Lyon and J. Farrell, “Bring Our Children Home: Improving Access To Home Nursing Services For Medically Fragile Children,” Coalition For Medically Fragile Children, March 2005.
G. Fairbrother, M. Dutton, D. Bachrach, K. Newell, P. Boozang and R. Cooper, “Costs of Enrolling Children in Medicaid and SCHIP,” Health Affairs Vol. 23, No. 1, January – February 2004.
M. Dutton, R. Cooper, “Giving New York's Children a Fair Start in Life: Supports for Working Families,” Children's Defense Fund NY, 2004.
M. Dutton and G. Fairbrother, “Barriers to Enrollment in Child Health Insurance Programs,” Children’s Defense Fund, 2003.
M. Dutton, K. Chin and C. Hunter-Grant, “Creating a Seamless System for New York’s Children’s Health Insurance Programs,” Children’s Defense Fund for the Commonwealth Fund, 2001.
Coauthor, “New York State Facilitated Enrollment Training Manual: Growing Up Healthy,” New York State Department of Health with the Children’s Defense Fund, the Health Plan Association and Statewide Youth Advocacy, 2000.
Speaking Engagements
Panelist, “Increasing Medicaid Coverage: Think Globally Act Locally” Medicaid in 2008 and Beyond: Challenges and Prospects, United Hospital Fund, July 2008.
Speaker, Children’s Health Fund, “Citizenship Documentation Requirements Under the Deficit Reduction Act,” November 2006.
Speaker, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, “Citizenship Documentation Requirements Under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005,” November 2006.
