Sheryl Tatar Dacso

Practice Areas

Health Care & FDA Practice

Career

Sheryl Tatar Dacso works with health care organizations, hospitals, and physicians on health care compliance, regulations, and transactions, including physician practice formation, mergers, acquisitions, and business ventures as well as digital health and telemedicine. A Texas Board Certified Health Care Lawyer with more than three decades of experience, her practice includes the representation of nonprofit organizations such as federally qualified health centers, certified nonprofit health corporations, medical education foundations, and research organizations. She often advises on employer or retail-based clinics, joint ventures involving exempt and nonexempt organizations and addresses issues associated with governance and regulatory compliance.

An AHLA-trained negotiator/mediator for resolution of health care disputes, Sheryl has handled many complex transactions involving health care organizations. In 2002, she was the first attorney named by Texas Lawyer as the No. 1 “Top Notch Lawyer” in health care law in Texas (ALM Media Properties, LLC). She has written several textbooks and articles on a broad range of health care topics ranging from managed care to virtual practice arrangements among physician practices and previously servd on the editorial board of E-Health, Law and Policy, and has been a regular contributing author of a chapter in the BNA publication of E-Health, Privacy and Security Law (multiple editions).

Prior to the introduction of ACOs under health care reform, Sheryl worked with clients to establish legal structures such as IPAs, PHOs, and integrated delivery systems that could provide care to patients while managing financial and insurance risk. Her experience in managed care contracting extends to shared risk arrangements.

Professional Memberships

-Board of Directors, San Diego Hospice Corporation, 1988-1992.

-Member, American Bar Association, 1979-Present; Member, Health Law Section, 1981-Present; Member, Science and Technology Section, 2019-Present; Member, Senior Lawyer Division, 2022-Present.

-Member, American Health Lawyers Association, 1982-Present.

-Member, California Society of Hospital & Healthcare Attorneys, 1986-Present.

-Member, State Bar of Texas, 1979-Present; Member, Health Law Section, 2008-Present.

-Member, Houston Bar Association, 1979-Present; Member, Health Law Section, 2010-Present.

-Charter Member, Health Law Advisory Commission to the State Bar of Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2002-2005.

-Advisory Board, SMU Cox School of Business, Women on the Move Executive Program, 2009-2011.

-Advisory Board, Center for Houston’s Future; Member, Scenario Planning Workgroup, 2009-2010.

-Member, Integration Committee and Public Health Task Force, Greater Houston Partnership, 2004-2005.

-Board of Directors, Texas Institute of Health Policy Research, 1999-2002.

-United Way of Houston, Public Policy Committee, 1994-2001.

-Health Access Texas: Board of Directors, 1996-2007; Planning Committee, 1995-2007.

-Member, Health Care Compliance Association, 2005-Present.

-Member, Ibn Sina Foundation Advisory Board, 2012-Present.

-Member, Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, 2014-2020.

-Member, Board of Directors, Clinical Health Network for Transformation (PPFA affiliate), 2020-2022.

-Member, Indian American Cancer Association Network, Advisory Board, 2022-Present.

-Member, Illinois Telehealth Initiative, Program Planning Committee, 2017-Present.

-Member, Program Planning Committee for the U.T. Health Law Conference, 2000-Present.

-US Exchange Fellow to Hungary and the Czech Republic; EISENHOWER FOUNDATION, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999.

Publications

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2010-2023; Houston Lawyer of the Year, Health Care Law, 2022.

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2016-2022.

Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Health Care Law, 2015-2017.

Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Texas Super Lawyers, 2017.

Personal

DrPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

J.D., South Texas College of Law

M.P.H., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

B.A., University of Texas