Attorney with 38 years experience offering business and regulatory advice to clients in various industries, with an emphasis on providing legal services to participants in the healthcare industry.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Of Counsel (formerly Shareholder)
McAfee & Taft A Professional Corporation
09.1985 - Current
Practice focused on business transactions and regulatory guidance with an emphasis on issues relating to the healthcare industry for both taxable and tax-exempt clients.
Regular representation of clients in a wide range of business transactions, including organization, acquisitions and mergers, secured and unsecured lending, and business contracts.
Regularly advise physicians, hospitals and other healthcare industry participants on regulatory and transactional matters, including development of facilities, licensing, affiliations and joint ventures, reimbursement, Medicare and other payer audits and appeals, physician compensation arrangements, antitrust, Stark law/physician self-referral restrictions, fraud and abuse, anti-kickback laws, and government investigations.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
J.D. -
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
Accomplishments
Formerly served as a Director and Practice Group Leader (Healthcare) at McAfee & Taft
Currently Industry Group Leader (Medical Marijuana) at McAfee & Taft
Oklahoma Bar Association (Former Chair, Health Law Section)
Oklahoma Health Lawyers Association (Past Member, Board of Directors)
American Health Law Association
William J. Holloway, Jr. American Inn of Court (Master of the Bench)
OKC Beautiful (Advisory Board, Past President)
Upward Transitions (Advisory Board; Past President)
Lynn Institute for Healthcare Research, Inc. (Secretary, Board Member)