Barry Alexander has nearly 30 years of providing a wide range of strategic and legal advice to a broad spectrum of health care providers and health care services companies and private equity investors on the complex legal and regulatory environment surrounding the health care industry in a dynamically changing health care market.
Whether an acquisition or sale, negotiating complex agreements and health care joint ventures, addressing governance, regulatory or compliance matters, government investigations and audits or complex Medicare coverage and payment issues before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare contractors or commercial payors, clients rely on Barry for strategic and practical legal advice.
Barry focuses in the following areas:
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and compliance issues, including focused reimbursement and compliance issues with the Medicare and Medicaid programs
- Strategic guidance to a wide range of regional and national health care providers on a broad range of issues including compliance with federal and state fraud and abuse laws, state corporate practice of medicine guidelines and federal and state licensure, conditions of participation, accreditation and enrollment requirements
- Mergers & acquisitions of healthcare providers, health care service and healthcare technology companies
- Transactional guidance and management of complex regulatory due diligence associated with a wide range of healthcare providers and health care service companies
- Policy guidance, including coverage and coding issues, before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and state Medicaid programs involving coverage, coding and payment issues
- Audits & Government investigations, including Federal Civil False Claims Act defense and Medicare contractor audits, investigations and appeals
- Managed care contracting, payor audits and dispute resolution
- Resolution of Medicare Secondary Payor issues in connection with complex device recalls and mass tort matters
Barry thrives on helping clients navigate the heavily regulated healthcare industry to achieve their business goals and in developing practical legal strategies to complex problems. He is a frequent lecturer on Medicare reimbursement matters, an author of numerous publications, and is a past Board Member of the American Health Law Association.