tara ravi

Health System and Provider Transactions

• Representing multi-state and regional hospital systems in the development of joint ventures with post-acute care providers, including inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health providers
• Representing health system providers and physician practices in negotiating and structuring chronic care management arrangements, including related value-based, telemedicine and scope of practice compliance issues
• Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia health system’s acquisition of academic medical center
• Representing multi-state and regional hospital systems in the development of service line professional services agreements
• Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia healthcare system's acquisition of five metro Atlanta hospitals*
• Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia hospital system's merger with a regional healthcare system*

Regulatory, CHOW and Enrollment

• Represented multi-state healthcare systems in trade name rebranding projects including all related state licensure, payor and operational notifications
• Representing multi-state healthcare systems in obtaining expedited state licensure waivers and variances related to hospital operations and health planning
• Representing multi-state healthcare systems and post-acute care providers in obtaining state licensure, payor and operational notifications related to ambulatory surgical center and post-acute care joint ventures
• Represented multi-state healthcare systems in acquisition-related state, federal, local and county licensure requirements, including all governmental and private payor pre- and post-closing notifications and change of ownership requirements
• Representing multi-state healthcare systems with regard to Medicare and Medicaid enrollment disputes including provider-based status issues
• Lead regulatory counsel in the $2.2 billion sale of a publicly traded healthcare services company to a large private equity company.*
• Lead regulatory counsel on team that represented a multinational investment bank as lead arrangers for the financing of a large private equity firm's $950 million acquisition and merger of the now-largest pediatric home healthcare company in the U.S.*

Fraud and Abuse

• Advising healthcare systems, physician practices and post-acute care providers with regard to structuring compensation and investment relationships in compliance with the Stark Law, federal and state kickback and fee-splitting laws
• Advising physician practices, laboratories and health systems in structuring compliant ancillary arrangements, including laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services
• Advising health systems and physician practices with regard to mid-level scope of practice issues including supervision of ancillary services under state and federal fraud and abuse laws and telemedicine arrangements
• Advised healthcare systems and physician practices in federal and state payor reimbursement compliance reviews and internal investigations
• Assisted in the defense of regional Florida health system in False Claims Act qui tam alleging violations of the Stark Law relating to the provision of oncology services.*
• Prepared winning argument securing dismissal of whistleblower claims in a False Claims Act qui tam suit alleging that former employer radiology group practice failed to enroll as an independent diagnostic testing facility.*
• Assisted in the negotiation of False Claims Act settlement with the DOJ relating to claims of improper supervision of radiation oncology services.*
• Represented a multi-national pharmaceutical company in connection with a DOJ investigation into its patient support program, drug pricing, and specialty pharmacy issues.*
• Developed company-wide compliance training materials, as well as department-specific materials (including sales and marketing) for a multi-national medical device company.*

Health and Wellness

• Advising medspa professionals and IV therapy providers in structuring compliant ownership and supervision relationships, including all operational licenses, medical director and management services agreements, vendor agreements, and procedure consent forms
• Represented nutritional supplement manufacturers and distributors in structuring compliant operational and marketing arrangements

* Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

• Podcast Host, "The Stark Law: Writing Requirement," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 4 (September 3, 2024)
• Podcast Host, "Chronic Care Management," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 3 (August 1, 2024)
• Podcast Host, "Post-Acute Care Relationships with Hospitals," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 2 (July 1, 2024)
• Co-Author, "Navigating a Rocky Relationship—Provider-Managed Care Disputes Continue," American Health Law Association (AHLA), Health Care Liability and Litigation Practice Group Briefing (June 19, 2024)
• Podcast Host, "Hospital Overcrowding," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 1 (June 11, 2024)
• Co-presenter, "Redefining Health Law to Address Healthcare Delivery Challenges," Georgia Hospital Association, Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys (GAHA) Annual Meeting and Health Law Update (May 10, 2024)
• Guest, “New Players, Higher Stakes: Upping the Ante on Physician Transactions,” American Health Law Association Speaking of Health Law podcast (May 31, 2022)
• Presenter, New Players, Higher Stakes: Upping the Ante on Physician Transactions, American Health Law Association (AHLA) Health Care Transactions Conference (April 25-26, 2022)
• Presenter, “2021 and 2022 Updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS),” Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys (GAHA) Virtual Annual Meeting and Health Law Update (September 17, 2021)
• Featured, "Agility and Speed Disrupting the Future of Health Law," American Health Law Association docuseries "Health Law Disruption: 2030 and Beyond" with Bob Brennan, Tracy Field and Stefan Grow (October 22, 2020)
• Presenter, Sex, Drugs and Telehealth, Hot Topics in Healthcare CLE, The Florida Bar Health Law Section (May 15, 2020)
• Presenter, Studying the New Health System and Private Equity Playbooks, AHLA Health Care Transaction Conference (April 21, 2020) (co-presenting with Kristen McDermott Woodrum)
• Presenter, Taking Advantage of Medicare Advantage Plans, North Carolina Healthcare Financial Management Association Annual Conference (March 4, 2020)
• Presenter, Regulatory Forecast for Hot Healthcare Investments, ACG Chicago Healthcare M&A Conference with DealSource (May 21, 2019)
• Webinar, Healthcare Issues in Asset Based Lending (May 8, 2019) 
• Co-Author, Women Investing in Women's Health: The Rise of Femtech Companies and Investors in Celebration of Women's History Month, Lexology (March 19, 2019) (co-authored with Jessie Gabriel)
• Author, OIG 2017 Work Plan—The New and the Familiar, Health Law Developments, State Bar of Georgia (Spring 2017)
• Contributor, "Business regulatory software program "YouCompli" pays for assistance in analyzing health care systems," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 1, 2016)
• Author, CMS Takes Lead in Cardiology Payment Reform, Lexology (Jul. 22, 2016)
• Co-Author, Olympus: Another Life Sciences Company Gets Hit Hard, Law360 (Mar. 21, 2016) (co-authored with Gary Giampetruzzi and Zachary Zwillinger) (reprinted as Law360’s “10 Most Read Expert Analyses” on March 26, 2016 in “In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360.”)
• Co-Author, IRS Ruling Spells Good News for Captive PCs, Law360 (Feb. 20, 2015) (co-authored with Phillip H. Street, Michael D. Haun, and W. Craig Smith)
• Co-Author, Hospitals and Physician Bonus Pools: Improper Designs Prompt Penalties Over $100 Million, Lexology (Feb. 4, 2015) (co-authored with Phillip Street, J. Mark Poerio, and W. Craig Smith)
• Co-Author, The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine: Status and Liability (co-authored with Gabriel L. Imperato, Esq.) Compliance Today (May 2012)
• Co-Author, CMS Proposes Regulations Implementing the Mandatory 60-Day Overpayment Disclosure Requirement (co-authored with Lester J. Perling, Esq.) South Florida Hospital News (Apr. 2012)
• Author, HITECH Act Earmarks $17 Billion for “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Records to Improve Health Care Quality and Delivery, South Florida Hospital News (Jun. 2010)
• Co-Author, John Brumfield, Michelle LaPlaca, Felicia Goldstein, Patrick Kilgo, Tara Ravichandran, Melissa Danielson & David Wright, Use of a Novel Technology to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment in Elder Patients, 14 Acad. Emergency Med. 152 (Supp. 2007); reprinted in 64 Int. J. Clin. Pract., 9, 1190-1197 (Aug. 2010)
• Co-Author, Chunchun Ni, Hui Mao, Felicia Goldstein, Tara Ravichandran & Randall Scheibel, Changes of White Matter Integrity and Brain Activation in Diffuse Brain Injuries: Assessed by fMRI and DTI (May 6, 2006) (on file with The Emory University School of Medicine)