ian e. waldick

• Represented out-of-state mission-driven hospice provider to apply for, and ultimately receive, a certificate of need to implement startup hospice program in north Florida.
• Represented existing nonprofit community hospice provider to apply for and defend award of certificate of need to expand hospice operations into neighboring metropolitan service area.
• Successfully defended nationwide health plan’s award of a statewide contract in the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s Medicaid managed care procurement.
• Defended assisted living facility against administrative complaint by Florida Agency for Health Care Administration to reach favorable settlement.
• Supported assisted living facility in resolving the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s denial of a change of ownership application.
• Successfully represented disappointed bidder in procurement by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection by identifying structural errors in the procurement process and convincing the Department to issue a rejection of all bids and re-start the procurement.
• Assisted client in navigating and favorably resolving dispute with Florida Department of Financial Services and the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association regarding increase in required qualifying security deposit to maintain authorization to self-insure against workers’ compensation risk.
• Worked collaboratively with the Department of Financial Services to secure a waiver of workers’ compensation self-insurance regulations to allow a joint-venture subsidiary to fall within the parent company’s authorization to self-insure against workers’ compensation risk.
• Secured a regulatory waiver from the Agency for Health Care Administration to allow a client that operates a large inpatient psychiatric facility with adult and adolescent units flexibility to swing one unit between adult and adolescent beds upon proper notice to the agency to address seasonal fluctuation in patient census and capacity concerns.
• Provided regular guidance to concessions operator for several large sports arenas and event venues across Florida related to its alcoholic beverage and foodservice licenses.
• Aided client in preparing and submitting lengthy application to the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use for licensure as medical marijuana treatment center.
• Assisted hospice client in successfully navigating TPE audit by Medicare Administrative Contractor.
• Assisted in obtaining fully favorable decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning a multi-million dollar extrapolated overpayment determination against a hospice client by a ZPIC audit.
• Assisted in obtaining decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning multi-million dollar extrapolated overpayment determination against a home health agency client by a ZPIC audit by demonstrating that the statistical sampling and extrapolation methodology was fundamentally flawed.
• Assisted in obtaining decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning million-dollar extrapolated overpayment determination following an OIG audit against a hospital client by demonstrating that the statistical sampling and extrapolation methodology was fundamentally flawed.
  
• Represented statewide physician practice group in obtaining certificates of exemption from licensure requirements and Medicaid changes of ownership for each of 33 practice locations in anticipation of corporate merger.*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

• Author, "Does Daubert Govern Expert Admissibility in Proceedings Under the Florida Administrative Procurement Act?", 98 Fla. Bar J. 5, p. 22 (September 2024)
• Co-Author, "A Roundup of Florida’s "Health Care Session": The Live Healthy Act and Other Notable Health Care Legislation," Parker Hudson Client Alert (April 2024)
• Co-Author, "Florida’s "Health Care Session": What Stakeholders Need to Know about the Live Healthy Act and Other Proposed Health Care Legislation," Parker Hudson Client Alert (January 2024)
• Co-presenter, "Evidentiary Issues in APA Cases," The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division (Fall 2023)
• Quoted, "Bitter fight over controversial Family Dollar/Dollar Tree store in scenic Carrabelle continues," Tallahassee Democrat (May 2022)
• Co-Author, “Improving Court-Mandated Divorce Education by Recognizing the Effects of Parents’ Childhood Trauma,” 40 Pace L. Rev. 273 (January 2020) (with Anthony J. Ferraro, Karen Oehme, and Nat Stern)
• Author, “Recent Developments,” 31 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 313 (2016)
• Author, “Let Willy Free Himself: The Case for Expanding Standing to Marine Mammals to Challenge Regulations of the Public Display Industry,” 31 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 117 (2015)
• Author, “Fourth Amendment and Statutory Protections Governing Remote Searches of Personal E-mails,” 1 J.L., Tech. & Pub. Pol’y 131 (2015)
• Co-presenter, “The Effects of Childhood Trauma and Coparenting Quality on the Efficacy of Divorce Education,” Navigating Disruption and Change in Diverse Families, NCFR (November 2018)