ian e. waldick

• Represented a service area’s sole existing hospice provider in a three-week administrative trial to rebut a need for an additional hospice program published by the Agency for Health Care Administration and oppose its preliminary approval of a new competitor.
• Represented the nation’s largest PBM industry association in pursuing several unadopted rule challenges against the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR”) in connection with its market conduct examinations of member-PBMs. Our litigation motivated OIR to propose those policies as rules, many of which we challenged as invalid. Ultimately, we were able to persuade OIR to revise its proposed rules to be much more comprehensive and provide regulatory certainty to PBMs in Florida. This was particularly important as these rules are the first set in the nation governing market conduct exams of PBMs and will likely serve as a template for regulation in other states.
• Represented legislatively created educational consortium to ensure regulatory compliance with several procurements of service contracts for member public school districts.
• Represented nonprofit hospital system to intervene in challenge to defend the Agency for Health Care Administration’s proposed organ transplant program licensure rules.
• Represented assisted living facility to successfully defend against Medicaid managed care plan’s untimely overpayment determination and negotiated a settlement for a fraction of the original alleged overpayment amount and included payment to the facility of a majority of the money that the plan had prematurely recouped.
• Assisted nonprofit hospital system in securing licensure and other government approvals required to operationalize Florida’s first Mobile Stroke Units—essentially ambulances equipped with state-of-the-art CAT scan technology and qualified medical personnel under the direction of a physician that can provide emergent diagnostic and interventional support to suspected stroke patients in the field and during transport to the nearest appropriate hospital.
• Represented skilled nursing facility to defend against CMS immediate jeopardy survey deficiency finding.
• Represented out-of-state mission-driven hospice provider to apply for, and ultimately receive, a certificate of need to implement startup hospice programs throughout Florida.
• Represented existing nonprofit community hospice provider to apply for and defend award of certificate of need to expand hospice operations into neighboring metropolitan service area.
• Successfully defended nationwide health plan’s award of a statewide contract in the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s Medicaid managed care procurement.
• Defended several assisted living facilities against administrative complaints by Florida Agency for Health Care Administration to reach favorable settlements.
• Assisted several nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health agencies in completing changes of ownership with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Florida’s Medicaid program, and the federal Medicare program. Supported several assisted living facilities and home health agencies in resolving initial denials of their change of ownership applications.
• Successfully represented disappointed bidder in procurement by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection by identifying structural errors in the procurement process and convincing the Department to issue a rejection of all bids and re-start the procurement.
• Assisted client in navigating and favorably resolving dispute with Florida Department of Financial Services and the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association regarding increase in required qualifying security deposit to maintain authorization to self-insure against workers’ compensation risk.
• Worked collaboratively with the Department of Financial Services to secure a waiver of workers’ compensation self-insurance regulations to allow a joint-venture subsidiary to fall within the parent company’s authorization to self-insure against workers’ compensation risk.
• Secured a regulatory waiver from the Agency for Health Care Administration to allow a hospital client that operates a large inpatient psychiatric facility with adult and adolescent units flexibility to swing one unit between adult and adolescent beds upon proper notice to the agency to address seasonal fluctuation in patient census and capacity concerns. Represented same hospital client in seeking a temporary waiver from AHCA of the deadline to comply with new firestopping requirements within the applicable Life Safety Code; reached agreement with AHCA to provide an extension and regulatory certainty.
• Provided regular guidance to concessions operator for several large sports arenas and event venues across Florida related to its alcoholic beverage and foodservice licenses. Assisted same operator in taking over concessions at several university sports complexes and obtaining required retail alcoholic beverage licenses.
• Provided regular guidance to a professional sports team that operates its own concessions at its home arena related to its alcoholic beverage license.
• Aided client in preparing and submitting lengthy application to the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use for licensure as medical marijuana treatment center, and litigating subsequent co-batched licensure decision.
• Assisted hospice client in successfully navigating TPE audit by Medicare Administrative Contractor.
• Assisted in obtaining fully favorable decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning a multi-million dollar extrapolated overpayment determination against a hospice client by a ZPIC audit.
• Assisted in obtaining decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning multi-million dollar extrapolated overpayment determination against a home health agency client by a ZPIC audit by demonstrating that the statistical sampling and extrapolation methodology was fundamentally flawed.
• Assisted in obtaining decision from an Administrative Law Judge in the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals overturning million-dollar extrapolated overpayment determination following an OIG audit against a hospital client by demonstrating that the statistical sampling and extrapolation methodology was fundamentally flawed.
• Represented local government and private land developer in administrative litigation challenging validity of rules governing water consumptive use permitting throughout central and south Florida, proposed jointly by three regional water management districts, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.*
• Represented statewide physician practice group in obtaining certificates of exemption from licensure requirements and Medicaid changes of ownership for each of 33 practice locations in anticipation of corporate merger.*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

• Co-Presenter, “Multi-Party Administrative Litigation in Florida,” Florida Bar Administrative Law Section (July 1, 2026)
• Co-Presenter, “How to Use Healthcare Technology Without Killing Patients or Going to Jail,” Health Care Regulatory & Compliance 2025, Florida Bar Health Law Section (November 5, 2025)
• Co-Presenter, "Evidentiary Issues in Florida APA Cases," Pat Dore Conference 2025, Florida Bar Administrative Law Section (April 25, 2025)
• Author, "Does Daubert Govern Expert Admissibility in Proceedings Under the Florida Administrative Procurement Act?", 98 Fla. Bar J. 5, p. 22 (September 2024)
• Co-Author, "A Roundup of Florida’s "Health Care Session": The Live Healthy Act and Other Notable Health Care Legislation," Parker Hudson Client Alert (April 2024)
• Co-Author, "Florida’s "Health Care Session": What Stakeholders Need to Know about the Live Healthy Act and Other Proposed Health Care Legislation," Parker Hudson Client Alert (January 2024)
• Co-presenter, "Evidentiary Issues in APA Cases," The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division (Fall 2023)
• Quoted, "Bitter fight over controversial Family Dollar/Dollar Tree store in scenic Carrabelle continues," Tallahassee Democrat (May 2022)
• Co-Author, “Improving Court-Mandated Divorce Education by Recognizing the Effects of Parents’ Childhood Trauma,” 40 Pace L. Rev. 273 (January 2020) (with Anthony J. Ferraro, Karen Oehme, and Nat Stern)
• Author, “Recent Developments,” 31 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 313 (2016)
• Author, “Let Willy Free Himself: The Case for Expanding Standing to Marine Mammals to Challenge Regulations of the Public Display Industry,” 31 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 117 (2015)
• Author, “Fourth Amendment and Statutory Protections Governing Remote Searches of Personal E-mails,” 1 J.L., Tech. & Pub. Pol’y 131 (2015)
• Co-presenter, “The Effects of Childhood Trauma and Coparenting Quality on the Efficacy of Divorce Education,” Navigating Disruption and Change in Diverse Families, NCFR (November 2018)