With over 25 years of experience representing clients in both the health care and the tax exempt sectors. He represents all types of providers and payors to best position them to respond to quickly changing health care regulatory, tax, compliance and other related matters. He also represents a large number of tax exempt entities, both inside and outside the health care industry.

Clients turn to Jim for his respected knowledge, broad-based experience, and active legal and risk management advice in the business of health care. For many of the firm’s clients, Jim serves in an outside General Counsel role to assist them not only with accomplishing their strategic initiatives, but also to serve as a trusted advisor to whom they can readily turn for advice with respect to both legal and business decisions. He has the intuitive insight to effectively and efficiently discern the diverse legal needs of this ever changing industry, and his skills and talents in the field have earned him the preeminent recognition as a Band 1 leading practitioner in Healthcare by Chambers USA.

Jim’s comprehensive list of client services includes:

• Working with clients to structure integration, co-management, affiliation, and joint venture arrangements that implicate health care, antitrust and tax concerns
• Dealing with all levels of health care regulatory issues, including the Stark, Anti-Kickback, Civil Monetary Penalties Laws, 340B Drug Pricing Program, and tax law issues
• Implementing alternative payment arrangement and collaborative delivery systems in both commercial and government payor settings, including Medicaid and Medicare bundled payment programs
• Managing all aspects of compliance planning with regard to tax and health care regulation at both the state and federal levels, including financial aid policies and HIPAA and cybersecurity issues
• Assisting clients with internal and external audits and investigations

Through his representation of clients in the health care area, many of which are tax exempt, Jim has developed a significant amount of experience representing charitable and tax exempt organizations of all types and sizes on complex regulatory and business issues, including entity choice, private foundation rules, intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income, and governance.

BAR ADMISSIONS

• State Bar: Alabama

EDUCATION

• University of Alabama School of Law
  • (1989, J.D., Order of the Coif; Hugo L. Black Scholarship; Alabama Law Review, Senior Student Works Editor; Omicron Delta Kappa; American Jurisprudence Award; Corpus Juris Secundum Award; Bench & Bar Legal Honor Society; Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award)
• Yale Divinity School
  • (1984, S.T.M.)
• Yale Divinity School
  • (1983, M. Div.)
• Birmingham-Southern College
  • (1979, B.A., cum laude)

Recognition

• Chambers USA, Band 1 Leading Practitioner in Health Care Law (2017-present)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers in the area of Health Care Law (2012-present)
• The Best Lawyers in America© for Health Care Law and Non-Profit/Charities Law (2006-present)
• Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Non-Profit/Charities Law (2015, 2020, and 2022)
• Distinguished as “The Best of the Bar” for 2020 by the Birmingham Business Journal
• Birmingham Business Journal “Who’s Who in Health Care” (2017)
• Identified as an Acritas Star™ in Health Care
• Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent Rating

Maynard Nexsen PC

Health care is an increasingly complicated and quickly changing field, which is why the entire spectrum of healthcare providers, practitioners, investors, manufacturers, suppliers, and vendors need the support of a legal team with the deep experience of Maynard Nexsen.  We have a team of attorneys experienced in all areas of the law regarding the regulation, delivery and financing of health care services.

We take pride in the fact that we collaborate closely with our clients, who rely on both our deep experience and our understanding of their business and our efficient responsiveness whenever a need arises. We also work to inform and assist clients with all the latest developments in healthcare-related law. To that end, we assist in all phases of a client’s needs, including offering updates in various formats on the rapidly changing statutory and regulatory environment. Moreover, we are frequent speakers at seminars on topics dealing with new healthcare law issues, as well as topics that need particular focus because of current enforcement efforts or business trends. Of course, our team regularly shares updates with our clients on specific industry issues.

In addition, one of the benefits of working with a large firm like Maynard Nexsen is that our health care team draws upon the knowledge and experience of our other lawyers who focus in other fields to provide comprehensive legal services whenever the need arises.