Bio
Bob has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry and counsels clients on fraud and abuse issues, fair market value, commercial reasonableness and developing, monitoring, and documenting effective healthcare compliance programs. He serves clients nationally as a compliance professional and assists in negotiating and implementing corporate integrity agreements and in documenting and defending financial arrangements being of fair market value and commercially reasonable between healthcare providers. Bob has represented healthcare providers, including hospitals, large health systems, and referring physicians in such matters and has also represented healthcare clients under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General.
Previously, Bob served as a general counsel and organizational integrity officer for a multi-hospital system, giving him first hand experience working with challenges faced across their organization. As a result, he is able to provide valuable and practical insight to his clients in complex healthcare legal matters that is also from an operational and regulatory perspective.
Bob is a frequent speaker at many national and regional healthcare legal, compliance, and regulatory conferences, including conferences sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association and Health Care Compliance Association. He also provides his professional insight as the host of the Stark Integrity: The Stark Law and Compliance Podcast.
Education
- The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, JD, summa cum laude (1989)
- Managing editor of The Ohio State University Law Journal
- Order of the Coif
- Omicron Delta Kappa
- Bowling Green State University, BA, summa cum laude (1986)