Phyllis J. Garrison

Phyllis J. Garrison is currently employed at Eimerman Law in Noblesville, Indiana doing primarily appeals. In 2018 she retired as the Privacy Director at Eskenazi Health. She has previously served as Associate General Counsel for Community Hospital of Indiana Inc. and has provided legal services for several health care entities both as outside counsel and in-house counsel since 1984. She has experience with a wide variety of health law issues, including HIPAA privacy and security, fraud and health abuse, mental health law, Stark, anti-referral violations, federal patient dumping law violations, anti-trust, nursing liability, medical records documentation, patient confidentiality, and medical malpractice.

She has also served as a lobbyist for the Indiana Hospital Association and non-profit nursing homes. Prior to concentrating in health care law, Ms. Garrison was a trial lawyer doing insurance defense and personal
injury litigation.

Ms. Garrison graduated Magna Cum Laude from Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, and holds a B.S. Degree from Ball State University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

She is a Fellow member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and a Six Sigma Black Belt. She is also a member of the Indiana State Bar Association the Indianapolis Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association and Who’s Who in American Law.