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Speakers

Amy Garner

Began her career at West Tennessee Health (WTH) as the controller for Camden General Hospital in 1998, and in 2002, became the administrator of the hospital. In 2003, she became the Corporate Compliance Officer for WTH, in which her primary responsibility is promoting an environment where there is honest, ethical behavior in the day-to-day operations of the organization. Garner received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from Union University, and her Executive Juris Doctor Degree with an emphasis in Health Law from Concord University School of Law.

Amy Hampton

Is Division Counsel for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she focuses her practice on healthcare operations, risk management and regulatory compliance. Hampton regularly provides counsel on several matters including complex patient issues, fiduciary relationships arising in the healthcare environment, EMTALA, accreditation matters, privacy, and policies and procedures. She also provides guidance on credentialing, medical staff management, and medical staff governance documents. Prior to joining VUMC, she was a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, where she routinely represented regional and national hospitals and hospital systems and other healthcare providers. Hampton earned her Juris Doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2000.

Anna Grizzle

Is a Member at Bass, Berry & Sims in the firm’s Nashville office where she focuses her practice exclusively on helping healthcare clients address enforcement and compliance issues or respond to legal and regulatory violations. She is currently serving as lead counsel to several healthcare providers who are under investigation for potential False Claims Act violations. With significant experience in defending against statistical sampling and extrapolation in Medicare and Medicaid claims audits, Grizzle has saved healthcare companies tens of millions of dollars in potential overpayment demands. She represents national hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, hospices and a variety of other healthcare providers, laboratories and DMEPOS suppliers from many industry sectors. Grizzle's leadership abilities and visionary judgment make her a go-to advisor in the healthcare sector. She is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association's Women in White Collar Subcommittee. In addition, Grizzle is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC)r, and she has been ranked in Best Lawyers in America: Health Care Law for multiple years. She is also among the most trusted leaders of Bass, Berry & Sims, serving on the firm's Executive Committee.

Brian Roark

Is head of the Healthcare Fraud Task Force at Bass, Berry & Sims and concentrates his practice on representing healthcare clients facing governmental investigations and related litigation, with a particular focus on matters brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services and other regulators, concerning alleged violations of various health care laws and regulations, including the False Claims Act. Roark also frequently represents clients in connection with Medicare audits and overpayment disputes and advises clients regarding self-disclosure issues. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University where he teaches a course on healthcare fraud and abuse. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the BNA Health Care Fraud Report. Roark is ranked in Chambers USA as a top Healthcare Government Investigations and Fraud attorney (Band 1) in Tennessee.

Cal Marshall

Is a shareholder and health care attorney at Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. He assists health care organizations with a variety of health care and business matters, including medical practice contracting and compliance issues, HIPAA/HITECH compliance, data breach response, telemedicine issues, fraud and abuse law, Medicare enrollment and payment issues, and compliance with state laws and regulations. Prior to practicing law, Marshall served as an aide to several members of the U.S. House of Representatives, working on health care policy and government oversight matters, among others. He writes and speaks on health care legal issues, serves in the leadership of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Cara Baer

Is an attorney at Butler Snow where she focuses her practice on transactions for life sciences companies and academic medical centers, the application of international privacy laws to medical research activities, and intellectual property counseling. She works with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, medical device, and biopharmaceutical corporations, facilitating business and commercial transactions and joint ventures and strategic collaborations. In addition to her deal work, she is experienced in the negotiation and drafting of drug and device development, manufacturing, and products supply agreements as well as agreements relating to the conduct of medical research such as clinical trials, investigator-initiated studies, consortiums, and the sharing of data and materials both within the United States and internationally. Baer regularly counsels academic medical centers on addressing international privacy concerns applying to the conduct of research around the globe. She also assists clients to formulate their international intellectual property strategies including trademark clearance, filing and protection as well as IP licensing. She obtained her J.D. from The University of Memphis in 2004 and holds a Master of Arts degree in mathematics from The University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University.

Catherine Hammack-Aviran

Is a lawyer and empirical bioethicist who has collaborated on >50 studies in bioethics and law, regulation, and policy in the biomedical arena, including >15 NIH-funded studies. She has published peer-reviewed research on myriad diverse topics, including genomic research on sexuality and gender, “medical neglect” and proxy decision making in pediatric oncology, and conflict of laws in precision medicine research. Given her trans-disciplinary expertise, she serves on several national expert committees, including the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Brain Trust for the national All of Us Research Program of the Precision Medicine Initiative. She is a Research Director of Ethics, Education, Policy, and Social Issues in the Research Immersion Program at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, where she teaches bioethics, health-related law and regulation, and social science research. Recently recognized as a "Master Science Teacher," she also serves on the Integrated Science Curricula Committee, integrating ethical, legal, and social issues throughout traditional medical education.

David Steed

Is a Partner at Cornelius & Collins, LLP where his practice focuses on the representation of health care providers, primarily physicians, in a wide range of issues. In addition to representing individual health care providers and groups, Steed also serves as outside counsel to the Tennessee Medical Association. He has advised the Nashville Academy of Medicine, receiving their "President's Award" in 1994. In recent years, Steed has represented many physicians and groups in successfully resolving matters involving disputes with third-party payors, including class actions. He has recovered large sums owed by third-party payors in cases involving complex billing and coding issues. Additionally, he has defended many actions by payors arising from retrospective audits, such as Medicare overpayment appeals. He has successfully defended hundreds of health care providers in medical malpractice actions and has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs in appellate matters of interest to physicians. Steed received his law degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1980, after receiving his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami (FL), where he graduated cum laude with a major in Politics and Public Affairs, and a minor in Economics.

Elizabeth Warren

Is a Member in the Healthcare practice at Bass, Berry & Sims. She has helped dozens of national hospital companies and healthcare providers respond to the fluid regulatory landscape in which they operate. She advises clients on transactional and operational issues including Anti- Kickback and Stark compliance, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and disclosures for securities filings. Utilizing her industry knowledge and a practical outlook, Warren counsels her clients on issues including privacy and security, responding to data breaches, structuring compliant management relationships, and navigating information blocking rules. For the past eleven consecutive years, Elizabeth has been nationally recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law.

Ellen Bowden McIntyre

Has worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee since 2003. She specializes in False Claims Act cases involving health care fraud, and she has also successfully prosecuted health care fraud defendants criminally. McIntyre previously worked for the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, in Washington, D.C. and at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. She graduated from Columbia Law School in 1994 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.

JD Thomas

As a member of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis’ Government Investigations, Healthcare and Litigation groups, Thomas represents and advises companies and individuals in a broad array of criminal, civil, and regulatory matters — with a focus on government investigations and prosecutions, qui tam and False Claims Act defense, government enforcement actions, and other sensitive and non-routine legal matters. While he has significant experience in the healthcare industry, Thomas. also regularly represents and counsels clients in a myriad of other industries, including government contracting, transportation, manufacturing, real estate, financial services, and education. Prior to joining Waller, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. As an AUSA, he investigated and prosecuted numerous actions brought under the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the Stark Law, among others. Thomas served as the lead attorney for the United States in several notable cases, including the largest civil False Claims Act recovery in the Middle District of Tennessee, the largest short-stay inpatient admissions settlement ever obtained under the False Claims Act, and one of the largest grant fraud settlements.

Jed Roebuck

Is a member of Chambliss Bahner & Stophel’s Business, Health Care, and Startup Sections. Roebuck focuses his business and startup practice on private equity transactions, corporate restructurings, and other business combinations over a divergent field of industries. He also provides advice with respect to entity formation and ongoing corporate governance. Roebuck has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, representing buyers, sellers, and would-be partners. He is also involved in representing physician groups, revenue cycle management companies, and other health care entities regarding operations, regulatory compliance, contracts, and strategic planning.

Jerry Taylor

Is a member of Thompson Burton’s Health Care Practice Group and concentrates his practice in the areas of health care, administrative, and government law. He is a seasoned veteran of legal practice in health care regulation, practicing initially in the public sector and for the past several decades in private practice. Taylor has formerly served as General Counsel to the state agency responsible for the certificate of need program, and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Tennessee, where he was primarily responsible for advising and representing state agencies in matters involving health care issues. He has successfully represented clients including hospitals, physicians, long term care providers, surgery centers, imaging centers, home health and hospice providers, and others in obtaining certificates of need and regulatory approvals for the establishment and operations of health care facilities and services. Other areas of practice in which he has significant experience include professional and facility licensing, Medicare and TennCare issues, Stark and anti-kickback laws, and physician contracting.

Kathy Steuer

Is Managing Counsel, Health Affairs, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she advises on legal and ethical issues related to patient care and human subject research, and on a diverse range of regulatory, operational, policy and transactional issues. These include medical staff affairs, graduate medical education, fraud and abuse, genomics, pharmacy and pathology regulation, and affiliation and other agreements. Her achievements include establishing a medical-legal partnership with Memphis Area Legal Services for assisting families with conservatorships; testifying at Tennessee hearing on conservatorship law; co-drafting a Tennessee law on in loco parentis consent to health care; preparing written and presenting oral comments on a Board of Medical Examiners proposed telemedicine regulation; drafting comments on the proposed amendments to the federal Common Rule governing human subject protection; and giving an annual continuing medical education program on prescribing controlled substances. Steuer was among the recipients of the St. Jude Clinical Care Improvement Award for 2014 and of the St. Jude Family-Centered Care Champion Award for 2015.

Kristin Bohl

Is a Shareholder with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, in the firm’s Baltimore office. She advises hospitals, health care systems, and providers in compliance and regulatory issues, with particular emphasis on fraud and abuse matters as well as recently implemented Medicare payment models. Drawing on her experience in the federal government, she counsels clients on actual and potential compliance concerns that arise on a day-to-day basis as well as helps navigating more serious concerns that require a more extensive plan of action to address. Bohl assists clients with analysis of issues involving the Stark physician self-referral statute, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Medicare payment policy. She advises clients on arrangements among health care providers, internal compliance issues, communication with the federal government related to compliance issues including the submission and resolution of voluntary disclosures to the OIG and CMS self-disclosure protocols when necessary. Prior to entering private practice, she served as the Technical Advisor in the Division of Technical Payment Policy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) where she worked on Stark Law policy. During her tenure at CMS, she was part of the team that developed and implemented aspects of the Stark Law, including the CMS Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol. Her work also included the analysis and resolution of self-disclosures submitted pursuant to the protocol. She was also a registered nurse who, before attending law school, worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Kyle Simonton

Is a partner with the law firm of Buerger, Moseley & Carson, PLC in Franklin. He focuses his practice in health care operations law. Simonton represents hospitals and other health care facilities throughout the United States in matters concerning peer review, credentialing, medical staff corrective action, fair hearing proceedings, NPDB and state board reporting, medical staff and board governance and bylaws, accreditation through the Joint Commission and other accrediting organizations, HIPAA, EMTALA, Anti-Kickback Statute/Stark compliance and various contractual issues. Simonton routinely presents educational seminars for various groups, including hospital boards and medical staffs, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Section, the Nashville Council of Health Care Attorneys, Health Care Compliance Association, and the Pennsylvania Association of Medical Staff Services.

Lucian Pera

Is a Partner at Adams and Reese LLP where his practice focuses on commercial litigation, media law and legal ethics work. His civil litigation practice has ranged widely and includes a variety of commercial, personal injury and intellectual property litigation, as well as numerous state and federal appeals. Pera has represented many media outlets in matters ranging from claims for defamation or invasion of privacy to access to courtrooms, public records and meetings of government bodies. His extensive bar association work in the field of legal ethics and professional responsibility has resulted in him being elected, both locally in Tennessee and nationally, to bar association leadership positions. This work also makes him a go-to lawyer nationally in the field of legal ethics and professional responsibility. He advises attorneys, law firms, their clients, and businesses who deal with lawyers about all aspects of the law. Recent assignments have included defense of lawyers in disciplinary investigations and proceedings, counseling clients with disciplinary complaints and other claims against lawyers, advising law firms about loss prevention and claims, defending and prosecuting motions to disqualify lawyers or for sanctions, and advising innovative start-ups in the legal business.

Dr. Lynn Massingale M.D.

As a leader and co-founder of TeamHealth, Dr. Massingale extends his passion of transforming patient care to other clinicians and leaders throughout the company and industry. Since co- founding the predecessor of TeamHealth in 1979, he led the company as the chairman and CEO until 2008, when he assumed his current role in which he focuses on TeamHealth’s commitments of dedication to exceptional patient care by top clinicians, strong ethical business practices and an unwavering focus on innovative client service. Dr. Massingale is a member of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, the Tennessee Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and currently serves on the board of directors of Health Insights. Former leadership roles include chairman of the Emergency Department Practice Management Association, member of the Nashville Health Care Council Board of Directors, medical director of Emergency Medicine Services for the State of Tennessee, chairman of Emergency Medical Services Committee for the Knoxville Academy of Medicine, and chairman of the ECC-CPR Committee for the East Tennessee Chapter of the American Heart Association. He frequently speaks at industry conferences and has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” and one of ACEP’s “Heroes of Emergency Medicine.” He earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and performed his internship at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.

Martha Boyd

As a shareholder in the Labor & Employment Group in the Nashville office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Boyd advises nonprofits, for-profits and public companies on all types of employment issues. She assists managers in running the company by creating legalese-free employee handbooks and employment policies that employees can understand and follow. She also advises businesses on their obligations regarding employee leaves of absence, such as absences under the FMLA and military leave laws. When representing acquiring parties, she reviews all HR policies and practices, identifying potential risk for liability so that the acquiring party can factor that risk into the transaction. Gaining the familiarity required to provide this service necessarily puts Boyd in the position of being able to help prepare the new company's policies – whether those policies come from the acquired company, the acquiring company, or a combination of both – and ensure they reflect best practices. A U.S. Army veteran who served in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, she also has a robust government contracts practice, advising companies that are competing for and executing contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies.

Michael Burcham

Is an entrepreneur, investor, and healthcare strategist with 30 years of experience leading technology-enabled healthcare organizations. He is currently an Executive Partner with Shore Capital, a micro-cap investment firm based in Chicago. Burcham also serves on faculty at Vanderbilt University where he teaches Healthcare Innovation and Launching New Ventures in the Owen Graduate School of Management. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Narus Health, a transformational healthcare concierge organization serving self-insured employers. Prior to forming Narus Health, Burcham was the founding President and CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, serving in that capacity from 2010-2015. He served as the Co-Chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2014-2016. He began his career at Hospital Corporation of America after graduating from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1983. Burcham also holds an MBA from Belmont University and a Doctorate in Health Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Patricia Flynn M.D.

Is the Senior Vice President and Medical Director of Quality and Patient Care Deputy Clinical Director at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH). She is a Member in the Department of Infectious Diseases at SJCRH where she holds the Arthur Ashe Chair in Pediatric AIDS Research. She is also Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She received her medical training at Louisiana State University Medical Center and completed Pediatric and Pediatric Infectious Diseases training at the University of Tennessee/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center joint program. Over the past 30 years, she has had the opportunity to watch the dramatic reductions in the rate of mother to child HIV transmission and the introduction of active medications that extend the life of HIV-infected persons.

Patsy Powers

Is a Partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP where her practice focuses on government investigations, health care, hospitals & health systems, value-based reimbursement, healthcare government enforcement and healthcare regulatory compliance. Healthcare clients facing compliance questions - such as structuring transactions and physician relationships, internal investigations and the possible disclosure of violations of Stark and anti-kickback violations - rely on Powers to identify practical solutions. As a past leader of Waller's healthcare regulatory group, Patsy has advised hospital leaders, their counsel and compliance departments in all manner of complicated regulatory problems. Powers rejoined Waller after serving as Senior Associate General Counsel at Vanderbilt University. Having served as the interim compliance officer of an investor-owned hospital system, Patsy has first-hand knowledge of the challenges they face every day. This unique perspective enables her to advise clients from a targeted and experienced point of view.

Philip Pomerance

Is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Best Practices Inpatient Care, Ltd., a large physician - owned medical practice which provides hospitalists to hospitals, long-term care facilities and specialty hospitals in Northern Illinois. He is also Of Counsel to the law firm of Kamensky, Rubinstein, Hochman and Delott, where he represents physicians and physician groups, senior living providers, physician management companies, and other health care providers in matters of health care, corporate, not-for-profit and administrative law. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association and is an adjunct professor in the Beasley Institute for Health Law at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. Pomerance is also a member. He is a frequent author and lecturer on health law and ethics for the American Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. Pomerance has written papers for and spoken before meetings of the American Association of Health Plans, the American Medical Association, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association of America, and the Medical Group Management Association.

Rebecca Wells Demaree

Is a Partner at Cornelius & Collins, LLP, where she specializes in the areas of health care and labor and employment law, including federal and state regulatory appeals, employment contracts, non-compete agreements, and civil rights actions. She previously served as Associate General Counsel and Chief Human Resources Officer for Tennessee Health Management, Inc. In addition to practicing law, Demaree provides in-house, interactive training seminars for her clients in all aspects of employer/employee relations. She has acted as the featured speaker at professional conferences on topics of compliance with laws dealing with workers’ compensation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Rebecca also serves on the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. Demaree received her law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as a student writing editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She also studied as an undergraduate at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Richard Rose

Is an attorney at Miller & Martin where he concentrates his practice in the areas of health care fraud and abuse, construction litigation, and commercial litigation. He represents and counsels hospitals, physicians, SNFs, Home-Health Agencies, Hospice providers, DME providers, Midlevel providers, and other health care providers in health care fraud and abuse issues and litigation. Rose represents construction general contractors and subcontractors in construction litigation, contract reviews and disputes. Rose also represents and counsels both large and small businesses relating to general business and commercial litigation. He also represents and counsels clients in the insurance, health care, retail, real estate, and manufacturing sectors regarding Information Security and Privacy, including responses to major data breaches as well as compliance with HITECH, HIPAA, GLBA and other data retention and compliance laws.

Rob McConkey III

Is a member of the Tennessee Bar and has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee since 2010. As the District’s Affirmative Civil Enforcement and Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator, his primary responsibilities include oversight of the investigation and prosecution of civil claims under the False Claims Act, with emphasis on health care, procurement and contract fraud and abuse involving government programs. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was in private practice for 5 years handling commercial and general litigation and served for more than 8 years as a Deputy Law Director in the Knox County Law Director’s Office. McConkey received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, and his bachelor’s degree in business administration from East Tennessee State University.

Sandy Teplitzky

Is a Shareholder with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, in the firm’s Baltimore office. He provides legal guidance on fraud and abuse issues to clients in virtually every sector of the healthcare industry. This includes counseling and defense in investigations and/or prosecutions involving Medicare or Medicaid fraud and abuse, structuring joint ventures and other business arrangements, and assistance with respect to the creation and implementation of corporate compliance programs. From 1975 through 1979, he was with the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1977, he was assigned the primary responsibility for developing policies and regulations to implement the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977. Teplitzky was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association (formerly the National Health Lawyers Association) in 1986 and served as its President in 1993-1994.

Sheree Wright

Is a Senior Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Wright received both her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, and her law degree from Vanderbilt University. Her practice focuses on all areas of employment law, including advice on matters involving faculty, house staff, postdocs, research fellows, and staff, as well as legal ethics, medical student issues and special projects. Wright regularly conducts training for faculty, residency program directors, chief residents, and staff. She has produced and spoken at numerous seminars on various topics, such as legal ethics and employment law, for the Nashville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. She has received the Nashville Bar Association CLE Excellence Award. In addition, she is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and was a part of the team selected to argue on behalf of the TBA for the adoption of the Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct.

Stephen Scott

Heads Bailey Southwell & Co.'s sector of health care services, including behavioral healthcare, facilities and alternate sites, physician practices and outsourced services. Scott has led transactions spanning many sectors including physician practices, behavioral, urgent care, and home care, among others. Additionally, he has worked in finance at HCA Healthcare, Inc, and has represented numerous successful transactions with industry players such as Acadia, Vestar, Seaside Healthcare, Pharos, United Surgical Partners and others. With over $3 billion of M&A and financial services transaction value, his prior corporate experiences with large, multi-site healthcare companies, provides him a depth of knowledge most bankers lack as it relates to the complexities of regulatory or reimbursement challenges facing today’s healthcare providers.

Stephen Smith

Is the Deputy Commissioner and Director of TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program. In his current role, Mr. Smith manages a $12.7 billion health care enterprise that provides services to 1.4 million Tennesseans. Before becoming director, Mr. Smith served as the deputy director and chief of staff of TennCare. Prior to joining TennCare, Smith previously served as chief of staff to Governor Bill Haslam, where he oversaw day-to-day operations of the governor's office and served as top advisor and strategist. Smith previously served as deputy commissioner for policy and external affairs at the Tennessee Department of Education. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his law degree from the Nashville School of Law.

Stuart Canale

Has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Tennessee since 1989. Previously, he was an associate in a Memphis law firm practicing insurance defense litigation. Canale has prosecuted narcotic and violent crime cases in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Unit (OCDETF), serving as Chief of that unit from 1999-2005. He is the Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator/ Affirmative Civil Enforcement Attorney (ACE) responsible for civil health care fraud prosecutions and the district’s qui tam litigation. Canale also serves as the Civil Chief for the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's office for the Western District of Tennessee.

Tony Hullender

Has been the Deputy Attorney General for the Medicaid Fraud and Integrity Division (MFID) of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General since 2016. MFID is responsible for civil enforcement of the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act. Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General, Hullender was in-house legal counsel for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee for twelve years, including serving as General Counsel from 2011 – 2016. From 1998 to 2005, he was in private practice with Miller and Martin, PLLC as a litigator in their Chattanooga office. Hullender also served in the U.S. Army for twelve years, attaining the rank of Captain.

Trammel Hoehn

Is a Government Relations Advisor at Butler Snow LLP. He has been a key policy advisor and strategist on several key legislative initiatives, including: The Accountability Act 2013 which overhauled how the executive branch measures state functions and performance, TennCare fraud legislation which tightened the criminal statute to protect the integrity of the TennCare program and the 2015 State Insurance Reform legislation which reformed the insurance plans for state and education employees. As a member of Governor Bill Haslam’s legislative team, Hoehn lobbied for the governor’s key initiatives, which included: inheritance tax repeal, Tennessee Promise, and tort reform. Trammel has expertise in the state budget process, the state’s information systems and the insurance plans managed by the state, which covers over 280,000 members.

Travis Lloyd

Chairs Bradley Arrant Boult Cummings’ Healthcare Practice Group, a nationally recognized interdisciplinary team of attorneys and advisors who provide a comprehensive suite of services to virtually the entire spectrum of industry participants. Lloyd’s practice focuses on complex regulatory matters. He represents a broad range of healthcare industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities, and behavioral health providers, as well as their strategic partners. He has significant experience in the areas of fraud and abuse, provider enrollment and reimbursement, and health information privacy and security, as well as in the licensure and accreditation of healthcare facilities. A substantial portion of Lloyd’s practice involves advising clients on fraud and abuse issues, including those that relate to the federal anti-kickback statute and physician self-referral prohibition commonly known as the Stark law. His experience includes guiding healthcare providers through thorny compliance issues, obtaining advisory opinions, assisting with the structuring of transactions, conducting due diligence analysis for transactions, managing internal compliance reviews and investigations, and making voluntary disclosures to government entities.

Yarnell Beatty

Joined the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) in January 2001 as general counsel to the largest medical organization in Tennessee. In 2004, he was promoted to oversee TMA’s legal, government affairs, insurance, and eHealth departments and was promoted to Vice President of Advocacy in January 2013 and Senior Vice President in 2017. He formerly served as staff counsel to the Tennessee Department of Health as well as positions in the Department as Executive Director of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and Director of Health-Related Boards. He has served several terms on the Executive Council of the Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Section. He also served two terms on the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel (ASMAC). Mr. Beatty was President of ASMAC for 2013. Beatty earned a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and his law degree from the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.