Elizabeth Tyrrell's practice includes corporate, securities and franchise law with emphasis on issues relating to healthcare for both taxable and tax-exempt clients. She represents clients in a wide range of business transactions, including organization, acquisitions and mergers, secured and unsecured lending and business contracts. A significant portion of her practice consists of advising physicians, hospitals and other providers on regulatory and transactional matters affecting the healthcare industry, including development of facilities, certificates of need and licensing, affiliations and joint ventures, reimbursement, Medicare and other payer audits and appeals, physician compensation arrangements, antitrust, Stark law/physician self-referral restrictions, fraud and abuse and anti-kickback laws.
Elizabeth currently serves as leader of the firm's Healthcare Group and has previously served on the firm's board of directors.
Her experience and expertise have earned her inclusion in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Busines, The Best Lawyers in America (corporate law, franchise law, health care law, non-profit/charities law) and Oklahoma Super Lawyers (healthcare, franchise/dealership, securities and corporate finance), where she has been named to the list of "Top 25 Women" each year since the magazine's debut in 2006. She was also named "Oklahoma City Best Lawyers Health Care Lawyer of the Year" for 2010, an honor only given to a single lawyer in each legal practice specialty in each community.
In 2007, Elizabeth was recognized for her professional and civic contributions to the state by being named to the The Journal Record's list of Leadership in Law Award honorees. In 2008, she was named one of the "Fifty Making a Difference" in Oklahoma and was a finalist for the "Woman of the Year" honors presented by The Journal Record.
Representative Experience
· Structured integration of several physician group practices with hospitals to create provider-based clinics.
· Negotiated and structured joint venture among four hospitals (two of which were owned by major hospital systems) to create a specialty hospital.
· Ongoing representation of several physician-owned hospitals.
· Assisted significant national charity in streamlining organization through series of mergers to create regional divisions.
· Represented various physicians and physician group practices in connection with False Claims Act lawsuits, overpayments, audits and appeals.
· Represented manufacturer and national wholesale food distributor in establishment and ongoing operations of franchise systems.
Attorney Articles
· OIG advisory opinion describes suspect 'under arrangements' transactions
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert - September 15, 2010
At The Podium
· Healthcare Industry Regulatory Compliance: Recent Events presented at Oklahoma Society of CPAs' Fall Industry Conference on September 23, 2011 in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
· Updates on Stark FMV and Commercial Reasonableness, Overpayments and False Claims presented at Healthcare Luncheon Seminar: Vital Signs on September 14, 2011 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
· Healthcare Industry Regulatory Compliance presented at Unity Health Center on March 3, 2011 in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
· What Your Hospital and Physician Clients Need to Know About the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act presented at Oklahoma Bar Association Webcast on May 12, 2010.
· Physician Options After the New Healthcare Reform presented at Physician Hospitals of America Meeting on May 6, 2010 in Dallas, Texas.
· RAC and Other Government Audits presented at Healthcare Luncheon Seminar: Responding to Economic and Reimbursement Challenges on October 9, 2009.
Professional Organizations And Memberships
· Oklahoma County Bar Association
· Oklahoma Bar Association (Former Chair, Health Law Section; Member, Women In Law Committee)
· American Bar Association (Health Law Section; Business Law Section; Forum on Franchising)
· Oklahoma Health Lawyers Association (Board of Directors)
· American Health Lawyers Association
Civic Involvement And Leadership
· Upward Transitions, formerly known as Travelers Aid and Homeless Assistance Center (Past President, Board of Directors)
· Junior League of Oklahoma City
· Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma (Past Member, Board of Development)
· Leadership Oklahoma City, Class XXIII