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Claire  F.  Miley
Member
Nashville
P:(615) 742-7847
F:(615) 742-0447

Education
Northwestern University - J.D., 1983
Miami University - B.A., B.S., 1980

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 1996
California, 1986
Illinois, 1983

Memberships
Tennessee Bar Association (Chair, Health Law Section, 2003-2004)
American Bar Association
American Health Lawyers Association (Vice chair, Regulation, Accreditation and Payment practice group)
Nashville Bar Association

Honors & Distinctions
Listed in: Best Lawyers®; Chambers USA; Mid-South Super Lawyers; Nashville Business Journal's "Best of the Bar"
Phi Beta Kappa
Editorial Board, Northwestern University Law Review , 1982-1983

Publications
"Lonelier Than the Maytag® Repairman? The Stark Academic Medical Center (AMC) Exception in a Changing Environment," (co-authored with Danielle Sloane) AHLA Connections (January 2012)
"Don't Let Regulatory Issues Derail a Healthcare Deal," (co-authored with Anna Grizzle) Executive Counsel (December 2011/January 2012)
"Are We Having Fun Yet? CMS Posts New 855 Enrollment Applications," (co-authored with Anna Grizzle and Seth Killingbeck) HCCA Compliance Today (November 2011)
"Yet Another Regulatory Agency Governing Healthcare? The OFCCP May Come Knocking at Your Door," BNA Health Insurance Report, March 2011 (Co-author with Robert Horton and Lymari Cromwell)
"When Words Collide: Diagnostic Imaging as a Case Study in Medicare Mixed Messages," Health Lawyers News, Vol. 12, No. 2 (February 2008)



Claire Miley devotes her practice exclusively to health law. Her legal experience encompasses both regulatory and transactional matters for a broad range of healthcare providers and companies, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, cancer centers, imaging facilities and physician practices. Specific aspects of her health law experience include: fraud and abuse analyses; reimbursement analyses; physician self-referral issues; joint ventures and management relationships; physician group practice and compensation issues; hospital/physician contracting; specialty provider contracting; managed care contracting; medical staff bylaws and medical staff credentialing; operational issues such as patient care and EMTALA obligations; and licensure, certification and accreditation of healthcare facilities.

Claire is listed in Best Lawyers® and in “Band 1” of leading Tennessee healthcare regulatory attorneys in Chambers USA.

She is Vice Chair of Research and Website of the Regulation, Accreditation and Payment (RAP) practice group of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and is a past chair of the Health Law Sections of both the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations.

Claire also has numerous author and speaker credits on healthcare topics. Her speaking credits include:
  • Featured Panel Speaker at AHLA's national Medicare Medicaid Institute for four consecutive years, from 2008 through 2011, for the Regulation, Accreditation and Payment (RAP) Practice Group’s "Year in Review"
  • Featured Speaker at AHLA's national webinar held in January 2011 regarding physician supervision rules under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
  • Principal presenter at Wolter Kluwers Law & Business webinar entitled "The Stark Law: Why It Should Keep You Up At Night," May 2010
  • Speaker at AHLA’s national teleconference, “Proposed Stark Law Changes in the 2008 Physician Fee Schedule,” August 8, 2007
  • Speaker at “Legal Issues in Behavioral Health,” produced by Medical Educational Services, Inc., Professional Development Network®, June 12, 2007
  • Three consecutive years of presentations at the Tennessee Bar Association’s Annual Health Law Forum (2003, 2004, and 2005), with topics including medical staff credentialing, physician compensation, and imaging centers

Her author credits include:
  • Co-author for AHLA article entitled “When Words Collide: Diagnostic Imaging as a Case Study in Medicare Mixed Messages,” Health Lawyers News, Vol. 12, No. 2 (February 2008)
  • Contributing author to the AHLA Member Briefing entitled “Stark II Phase III Final Rule: No End in Sight,” published in September of 2007
  • Contributing author to the AHLA Expert Series monograph, “Fifty State Survey on Balance Billing Laws” (2006)
  • Contributing author to the AHLA’s Peer Review Guidebook, 3rd edition (2003)
  • Co-authorship of “Disease Management and Gainsharing: The Next Generation of Managed Care,” an American Health Lawyers Association monograph (1998; 1999)

Claire graduated summa cum laude in 1980 from Miami University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Northwestern University in 1983, where she served on the editorial board of the Northwestern University Law Review. She is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and has also been admitted to the bars of Illinois and California.