Williamson Health Law, PLLC

The attorneys at Williamson Health Law are focused on health law, counseling hospitals, physician groups, physicians, physical therapy businesses, psychologists, health plans, and other health care entities and professionals on audit, licensing, contract, regulatory, compliance and reimbursement matters.

Williamson Health Law's services to the health care industry include:

• Representing health care providers and suppliers in Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), Blue Cross, and other payer audits and appeals.
• Representing health care professionals in licensing cases and payer disaffiliation and de-participation appeals.
• Preparing, negotiating, and advising on health care contracts, including employment and independent contractor agreements, management agreements, billing services agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, clinical trial agreements, and medical records custody agreements.
• Assisting health care providers, businesses, and professionals with their compliance endeavors, including: drafting compliance programs tailored to the client's organization; conducting compliance audits; developing and conducting compliance program training; leading compliance investigations and responding to identified problems; counseling providers with regard to sensitive refund and disclosure issues; drafting compliant contracts and internal policies.
• Assisting Covered Entities and Business Associates with HIPAA and HITECH compliance, including: responding to OCR complaints; analysis of breaches and notifying patients of breaches; drafting policies, procedures, and forms required by the Privacy and Security rules; drafting and negotiating Business Associate agreements; and conducting HIPAA compliance audits and training.
• Advising health care providers and suppliers on compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark, including advice regarding self-disclosures under the OIG’s Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol and Stark Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol, and analysis of a variety of arrangements under Anti-Kickback Statute exceptions and safe harbors and Stark ownership and compensation exceptions.
• Consulting with and assisting business & transactional, employment, litigation, criminal defense, and other attorneys on health care regulatory and compliance issues impacting their representation of health care industry clients in a variety of matters, including: entity formation; mergers & acquisitions and sales; joint ventures; Stark and fraud & abuse opinions; contracts; health care fraud; and licensing defense.