Justin Brown advises healthcare clients across the country on complex regulatory issues. His clients span the industry and include hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, home health agencies, hospices, behavioral health providers, accountable care organizations, and value-based care enablers, along with their strategic partners and investors.
His core practice involves:
- Regulatory compliance counseling on complex healthcare arrangements, particularly those implicating the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and related fraud and abuse laws.
- Transaction structuring, negotiation, and regulatory due diligence for acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex arrangements.
- Physician compensation matters for health systems, large group practices, and other provider organizations.
- Structuring and advising on value-based enterprises, ACOs, and other value-based care delivery models.
- Internal compliance reviews and investigations, voluntary refunds, self-disclosures, and government investigations defense.
A defining feature of Justin’s practice is its breadth. He leads significant transactions, handles complex fraud and abuse matters, and advises on novel value-based care strategies. His recent work includes serving as lead transaction and regulatory counsel on a publicly traded physician enablement company’s largest acquisition of an independent medical group, helping a nonprofit health system avoid millions in potential Medicaid overpayment liability, leading VBE initiatives for one of the nation’s largest ACO and value-based care providers, and serving as lead regulatory counsel in the sale of a behavioral health platform with hundreds of providers. The breadth of his practice, combined with a practical, solutions-oriented approach, has led clients to describe him as “a true partner to those he advises” and someone who “looks for the solutions, not just the problems.”
He frequently speaks and writes on emerging issues, including fraud and abuse developments and enforcement trends, value-based care, and CMS Innovation Center models.
Before entering private practice, Justin was a public defender and tried criminal cases in Boston’s Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods.
