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Catherine  J. B.  Sloan
Associate
Nashville
P:(615) 742-7789
F:(615) 742-2755
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Education
Vanderbilt University - J.D., 2005
Middlebury College - B.A., 1999

Bar Admissions
Tennessee, 2005

Memberships
American Health Lawyers Association
American Bar Association
Nashville Health Care Council
Leadership Healthcare
Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts, Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville

Honors & Distinctions
Law and Business Program, 2003-2005
Member, Law and Business Society, 2003-2005

Publications
"Dynamics of the Relationship Between Physicians and Home Health Agencies and Hospices," (co-authored with Doug Wolford), AHLA Physician Organizations, (September 2011)
"Hospitals Employing Physicians: A Practical Guide to Buying Physician Practices and Compensating Employed Physicians," (co-authored with Leigh Walton, Scott Noonan, Claire Miley, Clevonne Jacobs, and Elisa Harris), The Health Lawyer (December 2009)
"Medicare Focus on Quality in Home Healthcare," The LTC Advisor Newsletter (April 2009)
"Group Purchasing Organizations: Worth the Cost?," (co-author with Cindy Reisz), 2006 Health Law Handbook
The Arkansas Chapter of the AHLA Fraud and Abuse, Self-Referrals, and False Claims Practice Group's Fifty State Survey (co-author with Brian Roark)  



Catherine's practice includes transactional, operational and regulatory work for a broad range of healthcare providers and companies, including long-term care providers, hospitals and health systems, and ambulatory surgical centers. She conducts due diligence and analysis of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions from a business and healthcare regulatory perspective; assists healthcare providers with federal and state regulatory and operational issues; analyzes fraud and abuse; advises on self-referral and related issues affecting healthcare companies; and represents healthcare providers in licensure and Medicare/Medicaid certification matters.

Her transaction experience includes analyzing and advising clients on licensure and regulatory matters related to the sale and acquisition of healthcare facilities, including hospitals, specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and home health agencies; and assisting clients with home health operations including Medicare certification and billing questions.

Specific representative transactions include:
  • Representation of buyer in multiple home health agency acquisitions, including drafting of asset purchase agreement, ancillary transaction documents and analysis of existing physician relationships and other due diligence matters;
  • Management, at client’s specific request, of team of six attorneys to complete 35-state research regarding long-term care licensure requirements applicable to a grandparent level stock acquisition;
  • Management of team of five attorneys to complete HIPAA data de-identification rights review of 500 submitter and payor agreements;
  • Representation of buyer and corporate managers of ambulatory surgery centers;
  • Representation of long-term care client in appeal of Medicare audit results; ALJ granted client’s motion within 21 days.
  • Management of cataloguing, and notices related to, approximately 10,000 licenses and permits in connection with a multi-billion dollar leveraged buy-out of a hospital company;

Catherine’s operational work includes:
  • Advising client on Medicare reimbursement regulations applicable to anatomic pathology and independent laboratories;
  • Advising clients on physician recruitment matters and draft agreements for same; 
  • Advising clients on part-time equipment and space lease arrangements for community hospitals;
  • Advising clients on structure and reimbursement issues related to Medicare reimbursement of Graduate Medical Expenses; 
  • Analyzing and preparing exclusive services arrangements for hospital-based physicians, such as pathologists and radiologists, including income subsidies;
  • Analyzing and preparing call coverage agreements in light of OIG fraud and abuse guidance;
  • Analyzing and preparing multiple physician employment and professional services agreements with physicians of various specialties and engaged by hospitals and physician groups.