Practice Expertise

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Health Care
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Health Care and Life Sciences

Areas of Practice

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Health Care
  • Health Care and Life Sciences
  • Health Care Litigation and Compliance
  • Litigation
  • Managed Care and ERISA
  • Managed Care Litigation
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Profile

Co-lead of the firm’s managed care litigation practice, Courtney is a business litigator with a particular emphasis in the managed care industry who works closely with clients faced with complex commercial disputes.

Courtney has over 15 years of handling complex commercial litigation, representing clients in a variety of litigation, arbitration, and counseling matters, including breach of contract, breach of warranty, business torts, construction litigation, insurance coverage litigation, real estate litigation, deceptive trade practices, products liability, privacy, and fraud. She works to understand each client’s unique business challenges and ultimate goals, in addition to overall legal strategy.

While the range of business disputes on which Courtney works crosses many industries, she has extensive experience in managed care litigation. On a daily basis, Courtney represents managed care clients—including group insurers, plan administrators, third-party claim administrators, pharmacy providers and employer groups. She handles cases involving disputes over medical benefits, claim billing and payment, reimbursement disputes, fraud, and other healthcare issues. Courtney is skilled in managing jurisdictional, complicated and challenging discovery, and standard of review issues unique to ERISA and other healthcare cases.

As part of her managed care practice, Courtney represents her clients in federal and state lawsuits, as well as confidential arbitrations, including disputes regarding provider agreements, provider reimbursement, surprise billing, and fraudulent billing schemes. She has significant experience with claims data management and medical coding and billing issues, as well as privacy issues unique to the health care industry, including HIPAA and other privacy laws.

Courtney’s experience is recognized within the industry. The National Diversity Council and Healthcare Diversity Council named her one of the Top 25 Multicultural Leaders in Healthcare in Houston (2019). She has also been named to Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under Hot List” (2018-2022) and Texas Super Lawyers has honored her as a “Rising Star” (2014-2021).

Representative Experience

Managed Care Experience. Courtney handles contested proceedings brought by or against hospitals and other health care facilities and providers; she has extensive experience defending and/or prosecuting many types of claims and causes of action on behalf of managed care clients, including:

  • Disputes involving facility-based providers.
  • Disputes involving anesthesia services.
  • Disputes involving pharmaceutical reimbursement.
  • Disputes involving pass-through billing schemes.
  • Disputes involving waiver of cost share and out-of-network models.
  • Disputes involving emergency services.
  • Disputes involving prompt payment laws.
  • Disputes involving coverage determinations.
  • Disputes involving pharmacy benefit management.
  • Disputes involving bariatric surgeries and related procedures.
  • Disputes involving air ambulance services.
  • Disputes involving vendor networks.
  • Disputes involving medical billing and coding.
  • Disputes involving payment methodologies.
  • Disputes involving coverage and claim processing policies.
  • Disputes involving narrow network arrangements.
  • Disputes involving readmission policies.
  • Disputes involving utilization management issues.
  • Disputes involving continuity of care issues.
  • Disputes involving plastic surgery.
  • Disputes involving balance billing and surprise billing.
  • Disputes involving providers in bankruptcy.
  • Disputes involving freestanding emergency centers.
  • Disputes involving in-office surgical service providers.
  • Disputes involving sequestration.
  • Disputes involving dialysis clinics.
  • Disputes involving high-cost drugs.
  • Disputes involving lab billing.

Other Experience.

  • State court lawsuit representing energy company in multi-million dollar dispute; trial counsel in four-week jury trial resulting in favorable outcome for client.
  • State court lawsuit representing individual client in unique bill of review matter; following jury trial, complete verdict in client’s favor.
  • State court lawsuit representing individual client in dispute over property owners’ association; obtained favorable summary judgment and resolution for client.
  • Federal court lawsuit over general insurance coverage dispute; obtained summary judgment for client on unique legal question, which was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • Federal lawsuit involving reinsurance broker and alleged lost commissions; obtained favorable resolution for client.
  • State court lawsuit on behalf of an energy company relating to a tubing failure; obtained favorable resolution for client.
  • Federal court lawsuit on behalf of client for reformation based on scrivener’s error; obtained summary judgment for client.
  • State court lawsuit representing client in wrongful death claim; obtained favorable resolution for client.

Education
BA, Louisiana State University, 2004

Areas of Practice

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Health Care
  • Health Care and Life Sciences
  • Health Care Litigation and Compliance
  • Litigation
  • Managed Care and ERISA
  • Managed Care Litigation

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