Michelle Williams is a member of the firm's Health Care Group and Products Liability Group. She has significant experience in the buying and selling of health care companies such as blood banks, laboratories and hospitals, including transactions requiring attorney general approval and/or conversion from non-profit to for-profit status. She also advises on full CMS and state surveys, compliance issues, the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback, EMTALA, HIT, hospital authorities, entity change of ownership or control, blood banking, laboratory practice, voluntary disclosures, corporate integrity agreements and qui tam defense.
- Successfully obtained attorney general approval for a restructured hospital authority corporation change of control and subsequent integration into an out of state non-profit hospital system.
- Successfully obtained attorney general approval for St. Joseph’s Hospital of Augusta to for-profit status.
- Successfully obtained attorney general approval for the sale and completed sale and conversion of Green County Hospital Authority’s Minnie Boswell Memorial Hospital to a for-profit hospital company.
- Represented a blood bank in CLIA revocation and restructured its laboratory operations.
- Advised two hospitals on full CMS surveys and the restoration of loss of deemed status.
- Regulatory attorney for a hospital system’s qui tam matters involving observation status, one day stays and short stay admissions.
- Former in-house counsel at University Hospitals of Cleveland and former on-loan counsel to Grady Health System and Emory University Hospital.
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September 12, 2011
In The Press
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July 5, 2011
In The Press
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June 11, 2010
In The Press
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June 12, 2009
In The Press
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July 11, 2008
In The Press
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Feb 21, 2008
In The Press
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17 September 2007
In The Press
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"The Rights of Nonparticipating Providers in a Managed Care World: Navigating the Minefields of Balance Billing and Reasonable and Customary Payments," Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law, Vol. 3, No. 1, October 2009.
October 2009
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"Fifty State Survey of Balanced Billing Laws," Health Lawyers Expert Series, American Health Lawyers Association, 2007.
2007
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"The Levinson Open Letter to Healthcare Providers," Hospitals & Health Systems RX, June 2006.
June 2006
Past Events
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December 8, 2009
Seminar
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November 17-19, 2008
Seminar
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September 24, 2008
Seminar
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Seminar
- Commissioner, U.S. Department Health and Human Services, “Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines,” (ACCV), to advise the Secretary on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (2011-2013). Also, Chair, ACCV Future Science Work Group Subcommittee
- President, Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys 2011-2012
- Board Member and Counsel, Georgia BIO
- Board Member, American Red Cross Blood Services, Southern Region
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Member, Georgia Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, American Bar Association
- Member, AICC, Southeastern Region, Medical Committee