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Practice Area Overview
- Transactions such as mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and health care companies; forming and implementing accountable care organizations; designing and negotiating physician-hospital alignment arrangements; and joint ventures and partnerships among health care providers and with health plans.
- Financing and restructurings, including capital access, venture capital/private equity investments and partnerships, and bankruptcies.
- Defending and managing mission-critical audits and investigations of potential False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback, Stark Law or other fraud and abuse violations; advising on self-disclosures; and negotiation of settlements and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) with government agencies.
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, including general counseling, appeals, and updates on new developments.
- Advising on complex compliance issues and on compliance plans and procedures.
- Managed care contracting, litigation, and design of new reimbursement and risk-sharing models.
- Health information technology, such as contracting for electronic health records, cloud computing, software licensing, hardware acquisitions, and IT services and outsourcing.
- Privacy and security compliance, including counseling clients on HIPAA and HITECH Red Flag rules; designing compliance policies and procedures; internal compliance audits; responding to OCR investigations; monetizing health data; and managing and reporting data breaches.
- Corporate, regulatory, and strategic counseling issues, such as corporate structure, new business models, governance, licensure, certification and accreditation, and medical staff structures.
- Health care business negotiations and dispute resolution.
The client base in the health law practice is diverse and wide-ranging:
- Institutional health care providers, such as academic and community hospitals and health systems.
- Senior living and post-acute care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, community care retirement facilities, and home care and hospice facilities.
- Large physician groups, ambulatory surgery center and hospital developers, and ancillary service providers.
- Venture capital and private equity groups with health care funds and portfolio companies.
- Physician practice and health service management companies.
- Health care facility developers.
- Health insurers, reinsurers, and employer-sponsored health plans.
- Health information technology companies.
- Pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
- Medical transportation companies.
- National provider and trade associations.
Brannon’s practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on product liability, catastrophic injury and professional liability. Admitted to practice in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, Brannon has represented a broad range of clients in cases involving serious injury and wrongful death across the country. Her clients include manufacturers and sellers of heavy equipment, component parts, consumer products, medical devices and automotive equipment, as well as trucking companies...
Mr. Barry focuses his practice on health care transactional and regulatory law. Mr. Barry's health care practice deals with Medicare fraud and abuse analysis and advice, including physician self-referral and anti-kickback issues. He represents both hospital and health care systems, as well as a variety of physician practices, associations and medical device manufacturers. His practice also focuses on joint ventures between hospitals and physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, medical pr...
For a number of clients, Nicole serves as an extension of their benefits and rewards department, designing compliant total rewards programs that facilitate her clients’ business objectives. For publicly traded and private companies, predominately in the financial services, healthcare and restaurant sectors, as well as tax-exempt entities, Nicole regularly advises on retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, pension plans and government correction programs for fixing plan operational err...
Jason Bring is a partner in Arnall Golden Gregory's Healthcare and Litigation Practices, and he leads the firm's Long-term Care Defense Practice. Mr. Bring is a frequent author and speaker on emerging healthcare issues and governmental regulatory initiatives, including a blog for Long-Term Living magazine. Mr. Bring represents nursing homes, hospitals and other institutional providers in litigation, governmental investigations, regulatory compliance and administrative disputes. In addition to...
Of Counsel in the Healthcare and Food and Drug practice groups of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. My practice focuses on regulatory and compliance issues, both in the proactive structuring of arrangements, policies, and procedures, and the reactive responding to government audits, investigations and litigation. I advise clients in the areas of federal and state healthcare regulatory compliance, compliance program audits, fraud and abuse issues, FDA regulatory compliance, Medicare and Medicaid cond...
Angie is a trusted advisor with a diversified health care practice. Clients both in and out of the health care industry rely on Angie for advice in handling risk management emergencies, Big Data issues, and HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification matters. She also assists hospitals, physicians, and other providers with a variety of regulatory issues, including medical staff, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, National Practitioner Data Bank, mental health, minors, do-not-resusci...
Lori G. Cohen has a national litigation practice focusing on product liability litigation and specifically, medical device and pharmaceutical litigation. Lori is National Counsel for a medical device manufacturer, handling its litigation including class actions, multidistrict litigation, and trials nationally. She has served as both National Counsel and Regional Counsel for pharmaceutical and medical device companies and has expertise in mass tort, multidistrict and class action litigation. S...
Brittany H. Cone, CHC, is a Partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. She focuses her practice on a wide range of regulatory, administrative and litigation matters in health care.Certified in Health Care Compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association, Brittany works with providers on the full spectrum of issues they face including Medicare, Medicaid, regulatory compliance, administrative hearings and appeals.Brittany received a Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University College of ...
Elliott Leigh Coward is an Associate in the firm’s Healthcare Practice, where she provides general legal advice to health systems regarding corporate transactions, regulatory and legislative issues, and litigation. Ms. Coward’s clients include hospital systems, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers. Ms. Coward assists clients in matters ranging from regulatory advice, particularly involving Stark and Anti-Kickback issues, fraud and abuse compliance matters and ...
Sarah Ernst is chair of Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group, an interdisciplinary team of health care corporate, FDA, health policy, and health care compliance lawyers. Sarah focuses her practice on corporate transactions, and she represents public and private companies and private equity clients in complex mergers and acquisitions, carve-out transactions, securities offerings, restructurings, joint ventures, and spinoffs, with an emphasis in the health care industry. Sarah also couns...
Mills Fleming chairs HunterMaclean’s health care practice group . Mills is a past president of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys and a member of the American Health Lawyers Association. His practice concentrates on the general representation of health care systems, specialized regulatory support to health care entities and specialized projects involving compliance planning, qui tam/FCA investigations, health care industry restructuring, tax-exempt entities and intermediate san...
Russell Hilton represents public and private companies in complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing transactions, and public and private securities offerings. He also advises clients on SEC compliance and reporting obligations and corporate governance matters. Russell represents a variety of business organizations (public, private, not-for-profit) in numerous industries, with an emphasis in the health care sector. He has the unique knowledge and experience critical to the structur...
William Jordan is co-chair of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group . He concentrates his practice on business litigation, government and internal corporate investigations, corporate ethics and compliance matters, and antitrust law. Bill is a member of the firm's Government Investigations & Special Matters Team and leads its Health Care Litigation Team . He frequently represents hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, health care providers, chemical manufacturers, telecommunica...
AV-RATED HEALTHCARE COUNSEL. 27-YEAR LAWYER. FORMER FEDERAL LAW CLERK. AVVO RATED 10. Kevin Little has over 27 years of experience as an attorney and is committed to protecting healthcare providers. He is a skilled, experienced problem solver who represents successful medical practices and other healthcare providers, licensed professionals and healthcare related business owners in transactions and difficult legal disputes. He is licensed to practice law in Georgia and South Carolina and often...
Michele Person Madison is a Partner in the Healthcare Practice, where she provides general legal advice to health systems in various regulatory and business matters. Ms. Madison is highly experienced in managing legal issues arising in hospitals, physician offices or integrated health systems including employment, investigations, risk management assessment and corporation management, and she provides legal education for health systems’ medical staff, management team and employees in the...
Jennifer D. Malinovsky is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Atlanta where she practices in the areas of healthcare corporate and regulatory law and commercial lending/finance. Ms. Malinovsky serves on the Firm's Executive Committee, the governing body of seven partners who oversee firm standing committees, strategic initiatives, and firm operations. Ms. Malinovsky formerly served as the Chair of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee (2004–2007) and was a member ...
Summer H. Martin is a member of Dentons' Life Sciences and Health Care practice, focusing on health reform and regulatory compliance. Her practice includes representing providers in responding to governmental investigations, subpoenas and False Claim Act actions, and counseling clients in the establishment and implementation of health reform and regulatory compliance matters. Her areas of experience include representation of public and private health care facilities and providers, including h...
For more than 20 years, Dawnmarie Matlock has advised health care clients on complex regulatory issues, including Stark Law and anti-kickback compliance. She also counsels clients facing government investigations and other enforcement actions to mitigate risks and help resolve active matters. She serves as Alston & Bird’s HIPAA privacy officer and counsels clients on HIPAA compliance and breach response. Dawnmarie is a partner in the Health Care Group and is the firm’s HIPAA P...
Carol Michel defends clients nationally in high-stakes and catastrophic litigation in State and Federal Courts. Her trials run the gamut from major personal injury and premises liability cases, to aviation crashes and medical malpractice. Carol is considered the "go-to" attorney by clients in emergency situations requiring immediate advice and counsel to protect their interests. In addition, Healthcare and Aviation are two specific areas in which Carol has developed significant experience and...
Wade's certification in health care compliance gives her a practical advantage in helping clients to navigate the complex terrain of health care law. She often conducts internal investigations on behalf of industry clients and defends them against government investigations, whistleblower actions, and False Claims Act suits. Wade represents a broad array of health care clients including health plans, hospital systems, medical device manufacturers, post-acute providers, physician practices, and...
Jason Popp is a partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He is a civil litigator with substantial experience under the False Claims Act (FCA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and health care laws and regulations. Jason is a member of Alston & Bird’s Health Care Litigation and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Groups. Jason focuses his practice on defending clients in government investigations and qui tam litigation, with a particular emphasis ...
Mr. Pottle represents clients in a wide range of complex corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures, restructurings, spinoffs and formation transactions. He represents a variety of business organizations (public, private, not-for-profit, domestic and foreign), their boards and financial sponsors and advisors in numerous industries. He has counseled multibillion-dollar international compani...
Mark Ray offers health care clients a nuanced and business-focused approach to public or private company M&A and corporate finance transactions. His knowledge of the unique regulations, risks, and market pressures affecting health care companies results in unique insights and creates value for his clients. Mark is the former chair of Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group, which includes teams of corporate, FDA, health policy, and health care compliance lawyers. He concentrates his p...
George R. Reinhardt, III is a Partner in the firm’s Healthcare Practice, where he provides general legal advice to health systems, physician practices, mental health providers, and other healthcare related entities on a variety of matters, including corporate transactions, regulatory and legislative issues, medical staff issues, physician contracting, patient privacy and contract negotiation. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Reinhardt was Vice President at Sherman & Company in Charlot...
Joseph R. Ross is a Partner in the firm’s Healthcare and Real Estate Development and Finance Practices. Mr. Ross is the former senior vice president and general counsel of Memorial Health University Medical Center, Inc. Mr. Ross’s commercial real estate experience includes a transactional practice for a variety of clients, developers, foreign businesses, corporations, industrial revenue bond financed transactions and low income housing developments.
Mr. Smith has achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for legal ability and ethics for more than 20 years. He has been listed for the past 14 years as one of Georgia’s “Super Lawyers” by Atlanta Magazine in a peer-reviewed selection process utilized around the country as well as in its Corporate Counsel edition. He currently chairs the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group and served as chair of the USLaw Professional Liability Practice Group from 200...
Craig Smith serves as counsel to the full spectrum of healthcare and life sciences organizations with a focus on transactional and business matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals and joint ventures. Craig frequently works with hospitals and health systems, physician groups, practice management companies, accountable care organizations (ACOs), ambulatory service centers (ASCs) and other providers to navigate the complex financial and regulatory issues that arise when ...
Rob Stone is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group, whose practice focuses on health care compliance and regulatory matters, primarily counseling national health care systems, academic medical centers, physician groups and other health care providers. His skills include assisting with the broad range of federal and state fraud and abuse issues, from compliance program development and review to internal and government investigations. He has extensive experience preparing, ne...
Robert C. Threlkeld is a Partner in the firm’s Healthcare, Litigation and Exempt Organizations Practices. Mr. Threlkeld actively represents hospital systems, physician practice groups and other healthcare providers in a range of regulatory matters, and regulatory and business disputes. He has substantial experience in Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse matters, managed care disputes, false claims and whistleblower cases, Certificate of Need matters, licensure and medical staff disput...
Sidney Welch is a nationally recognized strategic advisor to large specialty physician practices & associations and technology companies in their cutting edge and traditional healthcare, transactional, and litigation needs. She serves as strategic regulatory counsel, providing counsel to clients regarding tomorrow’s healthcare, including mhealth and digital health ventures; telehealth; precision medicine; artificial intelligence & machine learning; data aggregation & analyti...
Eddy Atallah assists attorneys serving as outside counsel for local hospital systems and medical centers by drafting and implementing health care policies and procedures on state and federal privacy, fraud, waste, and abuse laws. Eddy works on the transactional side, focusing his practice on business guidance related to the life sciences. In addition, Eddy assists with administrative litigation matters including revocation of licensure, clinical privileges, and peer review hearings. Prior to ...
Landen is an associate in the Healthcare and Litigation & Dispute Resolution practices and a member of the Hospitals & Health Systems industry team. Landen has represented a range of clients on both the plaintiff and defense sides. He has experience in white-collar crime defense and government investigations involving antitrust issues and fraud allegations, specifically with a focus on healthcare fraud. He represents healthcare clients in matters related to litigation, government inve...
Laura concentrates her practice in the healthcare industry, regularly representing providers including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and sub-acute facilities in all phases of litigation related to both general and professional liability claims. She also maintains a regulatory practice, advising providers on regulatory compliance, assisting with internal investigations, self-reporting requirements, risk management, policy development and legislative interpre...
Baylee Culverhouse provides general legal advice to health systems regarding corporate transactions, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Baylee works closely with hospital systems, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers. She has previous experience providing general legal advice to long term care facilities, resolving Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues, conducting internal investigations, and litigating administrative appeals and medical malpractice claims. Prior...
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