Phelps Dunbar Expands Healthcare Services in BR

Phelps Dunbar LLP announced that Traci S. Thompson has joined its Baton Rouge, Louisiana office as counsel practicing in the area of healthcare law.

Thompson focuses her practice on federal and state healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. She has experience advising clients on a number of health care topics including compliance with federal and state Stark and Anti-Kickback statutes and the Civil False Claims Act, issues related to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, such as upper payment limit reimbursement, disproportionate share hospital payments and reimbursement through managed care organizations, and day-to-day operational matters. She frequently counsels clients on financial relationships between physician and non-physician practitioners and other healthcare providers and suppliers, including employment, recruitment, lease and independent contractor arrangements.

Thompson has experience with HIPAA privacy and security issues, federal and state telehealth and telemedicine laws and assisting providers with contractual arrangements such as hospital and physician joint ventures. Thompson’s practice includes the representation of a wide range of health care providers including hospital service districts, not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals and health systems, physician group practices and individual physicians, ambulance providers, and other ancillary service providers.

Thompson has co-authored and edited chapters in the American Health Lawyer’s Association’s upcoming publication of Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook. She also is working with Louisiana’s Task Force on Telehealth Access to assist the legislature and the Department of Health and Hospitals with creating Louisiana’s policies and regulations regarding the practice of telemedicine.

She is licensed to practice law in Louisiana and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and its Hospitals and Health Systems and Health Information and Technology practice groups, the Healthcare Financial Management Association-Louisiana Chapter and the Louisiana Society of Hospital Attorneys. She also is a member of the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section and the Louisiana State, Baton Rouge and Fifth Circuit bar associations.

07/25/2016