| Biography | Jim practices in the Burr & Forman LLP Health Care Practice Group. Jim represents numerous hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies and medical device manufacturers throughout Alabama and the southeast. He also represents home health and hospice agencies, chiropractors, nurses and other healthcare providers in a variety of matters. His experience includes litigation of Stark, Anti-kickback and False Claims violations. Jim has represented countless hospitals, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare licensees before administrative tribunals, as well as representing hospitals with their healthcare compliance programs, certificate of need issues, medical staff credentialing, responding to alleged EMTALA violations, Medicare appeals, audits, recoupments and sanctions, HIPAA privacy and security matters, as well as other health law disputes. Jim frequently lectures on the requirements imposed by HIPAA and implementing a HIPAA compliance program, and other health care compliance issues for various continuing education seminars. Jim authored Chapter 9 of the Health Law Handbook, 2005 edition entitled "The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act: Responding to an Active Investigation." Most recently, he co-authored the Alabama Association of Health Information Management's Medical Records Manual as well as numerous articles on health law related issues in the Birmingham Medical News; "Don't Kill the Messenger", a monthly column in M.D. News Magazine addressing corporate compliance strategies; and "Voluntary Disclosures" for the Corporate Compliance Forum's monthly publication, Checklist to Compliance. In addition, Jim was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and the 2011 Alabama Super Lawyers in the area of Health Care Law. Jim is a past Chairman of the Alabama Bar Health Law Section and past-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Bar Lawyer Referral Service. He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association, Birmingham chapter. Jim is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, the Birmingham Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association and was selected for the Birmingham Business Journal's "Top 40 Under 40". Jim received his B.B.A. in Risk Management and Insurance in 1987 from the University of Georgia and his J.D. in 1992 from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. Memberships & Bar Associations American Bar Association Alabama State Bar Chairman, Health Law Section Birmingham Bar Association |