Matt joined Gilbert in 2026. He is a healthcare and commercial litigation partner and leads one of the most aggressive and respected provider-side reimbursement practices in the country. Matt’s cases are regularly reported by Becker’s, Modern Healthcare, Bloomberg, and other publications. Matt prides himself on being on the “right side” of healthcare and routinely taking on the big issues in high-stakes cases.

Matt has experience with practically every aspect of the business of healthcare and revenue cycle management, including commercial and public payor reimbursement methodologies, IDR regulations, payor disputes, audits, third-party cost containment, healthcare marketing, alleged overpayments, recoupments, pre-payment reviews, audits, financing, government relations, regulatory compliance, and licensing.

He has successfully resolved countless reimbursement disputes with commercial payors such as Aetna, Anthem, AmeriHealth, Ambetter, Beacon, Centene, HealthNet, Humana, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, HealthNet, Magellan, and many Blue Cross Blue Shield entities and Blue Card Network plans. Matt has expertise in suits against ‘cost-containment’ vendors, like MultiPlan, who egregiously underprice the value of out-of-network claims.

Matt puts his clients’ needs first and he and his team are often able to resolve payor disputes without litigation.

• Appointed by Judge Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois to the Executive Committee for Direct Action Plaintiffs for In re: MultiPlan Health Insurance Provider Litigation, MDL No. 3121
• Appointed lead class counsel in the Northern District of California to represent thousands of patients in an ERISA and RICO action against the nation’s largest commercial payor and its pricing vendor.
• Represents national and state-level professional organizations of physicians, health care systems and specialties of providers.
• Routinely represents facilities and physicians in cases against commercial and public payors in state and federal courts, nationwide.
• Represents hospital emergency medicine physician practices as plaintiffs against in cases alleging unfair business practice and abuse of the No Surprises Act IDR process.
• Represented multiple emergency medicine physician practices as plaintiffs in civil RICO actions against a major payor and cost-containment vendors.
• Lead counsel for plaintiffs an ERISA putative class actions in California federal court against a major payor and their cost-containment vendor who systematically underpays claims.
• Represented multiple behavioral health facilities in a $40M suit in federal court against BCBS Michigan for illegally underpaying thousands of patient claims.
• Represents laboratories in suits against commercial payors for systematically denying $100s of millions in claims.

• 2003 – J.D., Tulane University
• 1993 – B.A., New York University

• District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
• United States District Court for Western District of New York
• United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit