Robin Amicon, a seasoned attorney and registered nurse with almost 30 years of combined legal and healthcare experience, provides legal counsel to health care providers, leveraging her deep clinical and legal knowledge.

Robin Amicon is a member of the firm’s Health Care Group and the Chair of the Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) Group. As both a seasoned attorney and a registered nurse, Robin combines her legal acumen with a deep understanding of the operational realities faced by health care providers.

She has broad experience in all areas of health law but focuses her practice on offering legal counsel to long-term care, home health, hospice, behavioral health, and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) providers, with significant knowledge in regulatory compliance and transactional matters. Her experience includes state and federal licensure and certification; state and federal regulatory issues and compliance, including survey and enforcement; administrative investigations and appeals; Medicare and Medicaid laws, including enrollment, changes of ownership/operator, reimbursement, and payor audits; certificates of need; physician and nurse practice; preparation and negotiation of contracts; and mergers and acquisitions.

Before entering the legal field, Robin practiced as a critical care and emergency department nurse, and she continues to hold an active nursing license. Her clinical background enables her to approach her clients’ legal and operational challenges with a unique and practical perspective.

Education

Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, JD, magna cum laude (2005)

Franciscan University of Steubenville, BSN Nursing, summa cum laude (1997)

Kent State University, Nursing (1994)

Distinctions

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America® – Health Care Law (2021–2026)

Listed, Columbus CEO’s Top Lawyers – Health Care Law (2025)

Professional Activities

Member, American Health Lawyers Association (2007–Present)

Member & Volunteer, Girl Scouts of America (2020–Present)

Board Member, Community Kitchen, Inc. (2022-2024)

Member, Junior League of Columbus, Member (2011–2012)

Past Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association (2009–2010)

Past Member, The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (2007–2010)

• Represented numerous long-term care facilities in the purchase and sale of nursing home beds, facilities, and properties.
• Prepared several successfully granted certificates of need (CONs) for nursing home providers.
• Assisted 18 skilled nursing facilities with Medicare change of ownership (CHOW) CMS 855-A applications and numerous other providers and provider types with CHOWs and revalidations.
• Assisted numerous providers with the creation of successful plans of correction (PoCs), including IJ citations.
• Successfully defended numerous providers against licensure and certification suspensions and proposed revocation orders from various governmental agencies.
• Assisted a multi-state behavioral health provider with multi-level change of ownership requirements, including Medicare and Medicaid requirements and filings.
• Revised numerous residency agreements for nursing facilities and CCRCs to ensure compliance with Ohio law.
• Assisted home health agency startups from the LOI phase to closing, including due diligence, purchase agreements, and obtainment of required licenses.
• Represented several nursing homes and ICF/IIDs in resident discharge hearings.
• Provided training to nurses, nursing home administrators, physicians and hospitals on various legal issues.
• Assisted with COVID-19 compliance for numerous providers in the State, including the creation of policies and procedures.

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Publications

• Speaker, "Pink Slips, Medical Holds, and Law Enforcement," OSHRM-SOHA Fall Conference (September 2025)
• Speaker, “Legal Update,” OHCA/OCAL/OCID 2024 Convention & Expo (May 13, 2024)
• Speaker, “Surviving a Bad Survey: Tips and Advice for Providers,” Ohio Provider Resource Association 2024 Fall Conference (October 24, 2024)
• Speaker, “Mergers and Acquisitions,” Ohio Provider Resource Association 2022 Fall Conference (October 27, 2022)
• Speaker, “Opioids in Long Term Care: Understanding and Responding to the Epidemic,” OHCA/OCAL/OCID 2019 Annual Convention & Exposition (May 1, 2019)
• Speaker, “Liability and Policy Considerations for Employers,” Ohio Library Council Opioid Symposium (April 3, 2018)
• Speaker, “Hospice in Assisted Living Facilities: Continued Scrutiny and Reform,” OHCA/OCAL/OCID 2018 Annual Convention & Exposition (May 2, 2018)
• Speaker, “To Delegate or Not to Delegate: That is the Question,” Ohio Provider Resource Association 2017 Spring Conference (April 6, 2017)
• Speaker, “Advance Directives,” Ohio Provider Resource Association 2017 Spring Conference (April 6, 2017)
• Speaker, “All Access: Requests for Medical Records in Ohio,” OHCA/OCAL/OCID 2017 Annual Convention & Exposition (May 2, 2017)
• Speaker, “Legal 101: Licensure, Certification, Compliance, and All Things Regulatory,” Ohio Provider Resource Association (January 21, 2014)
• Speaker, “HIPAA Compliance,” Academy of Senior Health Sciences 2013 Fall Conference (October 24, 2013)
• Speaker, “State and Federal Legal Update,” Annual Health Care Law Institute, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (April 27, 2012)
• Speaker, “Ethics in HealthCare,” The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (April 10, 2008)
• Speaker, “Basic HIPAA Issues,” Northeast Ohio Ultrasound Society (April 29, 2006)
• Author, “Nursing Home Tort Reform and Ohio House Bill 412,” Cleveland State Law Review (2003)

Robin grew up in a small town in the Ohio Valley (Adena, population 664 per the 2020 census). Robin’s desire to help others began at a young age, first in high school as a volunteer candy striper in a small, rural community hospital in Harrison County, Ohio, and then in high school and college as a state-tested nurse aid (STNA) in a rural nursing home and a community hospital setting, both in Jefferson County, Ohio. 

As a nurse, Robin started as a floor nurse on a medical/surgical unit and then eventually moved to Cleveland and worked at two Cleveland-area hospitals in their ICUs and emergency departments. Robin’s other interests in writing and advocacy led her to pursue law, with the intention of representing healthcare providers. 

Robin was able to realize that goal and has solely devoted her practice to the representation of healthcare providers for the last two decades.  In doing so, she has been able to help providers in a different way by combining her knowledge of the medical and legal fields. Her representation of long-term care providers rose from her soft spot for the elderly population (she loves visiting client facilities and interacting with residents) and her interest in end-of-life care. She maintains an active nursing license and lives by the motto of “once a nurse, always a nurse.”

Outside of her legal work, Robin resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her daughter and husband. She has a passion for animal advocacy and dog rescuing, and currently has four rescue/shelter dogs. She also loves music and (poorly) plays several instruments – those that she has played since childhood.