Jim represents health care providers in transactional, corporate, regulatory and compliance matters. Jim advises health care clients on matters involving structuring of business transactions and joint ventures, corporate governance, regulatory compliance (including fraud and abuse, licensure, health privacy and reimbursement issues) and governmental audits and investigations. He previously served as Vice Chair of the ABA Health Law Section’s Business & Transactions Interest Group and has been a contributor to the BVR/AHLA Guide to Healthcare Valuation and frequent speaker on healthcare valuation issues. He is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Prior to law school, he served as business development analyst for a privately held dialysis company in Nashville, TN, where he was responsible for market research, financial analysis and diligence on the acquisition of over 25 dialysis clinics.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2006

BA, Duke University, 2000

• Advised clients on corporate, regulatory and nonprofit status issues related to acquisitions and/or joint venture arrangements involving a combined total of 8 hospitals, 15 ambulatory surgery centers, 30 outpatient rehab facilities, 5 radiation therapy centers and 33 imaging centers.
• Advised clients on physician practice acquisitions in cardiology, orthopedics, oncology and a variety of other specialties involving a combined total of more than 150 physicians.
• Advised clients on private placement offerings for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and co-management companies.
• Regularly advise healthcare providers on recruitment, call coverage, quality management and other contractual arrangements with physicians.
• Regularly advise healthcare providers on regulatory and compliance matters related to ongoing operations, including Stark, fraud and abuse, nonprofit status, licensure, Medicare and Medicaid participation, reimbursement and health privacy issues.

• Virginia Bar Association Health Law Section
• American Health Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association Health Law Section, Former Vice Chair of Business and Transactions Interest Group, Task Force member on comments to 2014 OIG Proposed Rule regarding revisions to Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules
• Massey Alliance, Former Board Member and Treasurer

• Three Things in Healthcare - January 5, 2021

  By James Pinna |January 2021

• Three Key Things in Health Care - December 22

  By James Pinna |December 2020

• Three Key Things in Health Care - October 13, 2020

  By James Pinna |October 2020

• Three Key Things in Health Care
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• Collaboration for Quality - Performance Management Arrangements, ABA Health eSource
• Three Key Things in Health Care
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• Avoiding Valuation of Referrals - Interpreting OIG Advisory Opinion 09-09, ABA Health eSource
• Three Key Things in Health Care
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• Health Law Insights
• Three Key Things in Health Care
• Chapter 6, The Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law: Avoiding Valuation of Referrals, BVR's Guide to Healthcare Valuation
• Three Key Things in Health Care
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• CMS Issues Final Regulations Implementing Whole Hospital and Rural Provider Exceptions, ABA Health eSource
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• What Do You Mean Our Deal Is Illegal?! Legal And Business Issues Related To The Unwind Of Physician-Focused Joint Ventures, ABA Health eSource
• Three Key Things in Health Care
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• Chapter 5, The Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law: Avoiding Valuation of Referrals, BVR/AHLA Guide to Healthcare Industry Finance and Valuation, Fourth Edition
• Lessons on the Bradford Case on Structuring Acquisitions, ABA Health eSource
• Chapter 7, The Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law: Avoiding Valuation of Referrals, BVR/AHLA Guide to Healthcare Valuation, Third Edition
• Three traps for the unwary in HHS’ provider relief fund, STAT
• Health Providers Still Need Help Fighting Virus Kickback Risks, Law360
• The Time Is Now For A Blanket Stark Law Waiver, Law360
• CMS Coronavirus Stark Law Waivers Need Corrections, Law360