Tara Ravi

Overview

A unique background in healthcare that includes clinical, academic and regulatory experience has made Tara Ravi a well-rounded counselor to healthcare organizations facing growth-related challenges. Her solutions-oriented strategies and process-driven communication style help her clients reach successful resolutions with state and federal agencies and achieve compliant and cost-efficient transaction structures and outcomes during corporate growth and expansion.

Tara advises healthcare organizations poised for multi-jurisdictional growth across complex state and federal regulatory and reimbursement frameworks. Tara’s experience is highly valued in complex transactions, where she is called upon to structure and implement business solutions across healthcare regulatory frameworks. Tara additionally leverages this experience to assist private equity sponsors and healthcare lenders with their healthcare due diligence needs.

Clients also rely on Tara to navigate through complex regulatory issues such as Medicare, Medicaid and managed care reimbursement and enrollment as well as federal and state licensure. She helps clients identify, assess and mitigate risks and, when necessary, provides experienced counsel regarding investigations and self-disclosures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Justice, among other agencies.

Tara is the host of Parker Hudson’s “Redefining Health Law” podcast. On the show, Tara relates the everyday healthcare experience to the dynamic world of healthcare regulation and its direct impact on delivery, operations, and professionals across the industry. Listen to new episodes here, or follow along on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Experience

Health System and Provider Transactions

Representing multi-state and regional hospital systems in the development of joint ventures with post-acute care providers, including inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health providers
Representing health system providers and physician practices in negotiating and structuring chronic care management arrangements, including related value-based, telemedicine and scope of practice compliance issues
Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia health system’s acquisition of academic medical center
Representing multi-state and regional hospital systems in the development of service line professional services agreements
Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia healthcare system's acquisition of five metro Atlanta hospitals*
Healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel on team representing Georgia hospital system's merger with a regional healthcare system*

Regulatory, CHOW and Enrollment

Represented multi-state healthcare systems in trade name rebranding projects including all related state licensure, payor and operational notifications
Representing multi-state healthcare systems in obtaining expedited state licensure waivers and variances related to hospital operations and health planning
Representing multi-state healthcare systems and post-acute care providers in obtaining state licensure, payor and operational notifications related to ambulatory surgical center and post-acute care joint ventures
Represented multi-state healthcare systems in acquisition-related state, federal, local and county licensure requirements, including all governmental and private payor pre- and post-closing notifications and change of ownership requirements
Representing multi-state healthcare systems with regard to Medicare and Medicaid enrollment disputes including provider-based status issues
Lead regulatory counsel in the $2.2 billion sale of a publicly traded healthcare services company to a large private equity company.*
Lead regulatory counsel on team that represented a multinational investment bank as lead arrangers for the financing of a large private equity firm's $950 million acquisition and merger of the now-largest pediatric home healthcare company in the U.S.*

Fraud and Abuse

Advising healthcare systems, physician practices and post-acute care providers with regard to structuring compensation and investment relationships in compliance with the Stark Law, federal and state kickback and fee-splitting laws
Advising physician practices, laboratories and health systems in structuring compliant ancillary arrangements, including laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services
Advising health systems and physician practices with regard to mid-level scope of practice issues including supervision of ancillary services under state and federal fraud and abuse laws and telemedicine arrangements
Advised healthcare systems and physician practices in federal and state payor reimbursement compliance reviews and internal investigations
Assisted in the defense of regional Florida health system in False Claims Act qui tam alleging violations of the Stark Law relating to the provision of oncology services.*
Prepared winning argument securing dismissal of whistleblower claims in a False Claims Act qui tam suit alleging that former employer radiology group practice failed to enroll as an independent diagnostic testing facility.*
Assisted in the negotiation of False Claims Act settlement with the DOJ relating to claims of improper supervision of radiation oncology services.*
Represented a multi-national pharmaceutical company in connection with a DOJ investigation into its patient support program, drug pricing, and specialty pharmacy issues.*
Developed company-wide compliance training materials, as well as department-specific materials (including sales and marketing) for a multi-national medical device company.*

Health and Wellness

Advising medspa professionals and IV therapy providers in structuring compliant ownership and supervision relationships, including all operational licenses, medical director and management services agreements, vendor agreements, and procedure consent forms
Represented nutritional supplement manufacturers and distributors in structuring compliant operational and marketing arrangements

* Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

thought leadership

Co-Presenter, "Herding Cats: Coordinating Across Departments to Monitor Provider-Based Reimbursement Compliance," Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Annual Compliance Institute (April 29, 2025)
Client Alert, Executive Order Pushes Medicare Payment Cuts for 340B Hospitals and Site-Neutral Payments (April 23, 2025)
Client Alert, Update to Georgia State Licensure and Medicare Processing Timelines (February 11, 2025)
Co-Presenter, "Strategic Alliances Between Health Systems and Post-Acute Care, Assisted Living, and Ancillary Providers to Address Difficult Hospital Discharges," American Health Law Association (AHLA) Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance Conference (February 3, 2025)
Podcast Host, "Reimbursement Under Medicare Advantage Plans," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 7 (December 2, 2024)
Podcast Host, "Medicare Enrollment Processes and Strategies," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 6 (November 1, 2024)
Podcast Host, "Provider-Based Requirements and Strategies," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 5 (October 7, 2024)
Podcast Host, "The Stark Law: Writing Requirement," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 4 (September 3, 2024)
Podcast Host, "Chronic Care Management," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 3 (August 1, 2024)
Podcast Host, "Post-Acute Care Relationships with Hospitals," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 2 (July 1, 2024)
Co-Author, "Navigating a Rocky Relationship—Provider-Managed Care Disputes Continue," American Health Law Association (AHLA), Health Care Liability and Litigation Practice Group Briefing (June 19, 2024)
Podcast Host, "Hospital Overcrowding," Redefining Health Law with Tara Ravi, Episode 1 (June 11, 2024)
Co-Presenter, "Redefining Health Law to Address Healthcare Delivery Challenges," Georgia Hospital Association, Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys (GAHA) Annual Meeting and Health Law Update (May 10, 2024)
Guest, “New Players, Higher Stakes: Upping the Ante on Physician Transactions,” American Health Law Association Speaking of Health Law podcast (May 31, 2022)
Presenter, New Players, Higher Stakes: Upping the Ante on Physician Transactions, American Health Law Association (AHLA) Health Care Transactions Conference (April 25-26, 2022)
Presenter, “2021 and 2022 Updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS),” Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys (GAHA) Virtual Annual Meeting and Health Law Update (September 17, 2021)
Featured, "Agility and Speed Disrupting the Future of Health Law," American Health Law Association docuseries "Health Law Disruption: 2030 and Beyond" with Bob Brennan, Tracy Field and Stefan Grow (October 22, 2020)
Presenter, Sex, Drugs and Telehealth, Hot Topics in Healthcare CLE, The Florida Bar Health Law Section (May 15, 2020)
Presenter, Studying the New Health System and Private Equity Playbooks, AHLA Health Care Transaction Conference (April 21, 2020) (co-presenting with Kristen McDermott Woodrum)
Presenter, Taking Advantage of Medicare Advantage Plans, North Carolina Healthcare Financial Management Association Annual Conference (March 4, 2020)
Presenter, Regulatory Forecast for Hot Healthcare Investments, ACG Chicago Healthcare M&A Conference with DealSource (May 21, 2019)
Webinar, Healthcare Issues in Asset Based Lending (May 8, 2019)
Co-Author, Women Investing in Women's Health: The Rise of Femtech Companies and Investors in Celebration of Women's History Month, Lexology (March 19, 2019) (co-authored with Jessie Gabriel)
Author, OIG 2017 Work Plan—The New and the Familiar, Health Law Developments, State Bar of Georgia (Spring 2017)
Contributor, "Business regulatory software program "YouCompli" pays for assistance in analyzing health care systems," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 1, 2016)
Author, CMS Takes Lead in Cardiology Payment Reform, Lexology (Jul. 22, 2016)
Co-Author, Olympus: Another Life Sciences Company Gets Hit Hard, Law360 (Mar. 21, 2016) (co-authored with Gary Giampetruzzi and Zachary Zwillinger) (reprinted as Law360’s “10 Most Read Expert Analyses” on March 26, 2016 in “In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360.”)
Co-Author, IRS Ruling Spells Good News for Captive PCs, Law360 (Feb. 20, 2015) (co-authored with Phillip H. Street, Michael D. Haun, and W. Craig Smith)
Co-Author, Hospitals and Physician Bonus Pools: Improper Designs Prompt Penalties Over $100 Million, Lexology (Feb. 4, 2015) (co-authored with Phillip Street, J. Mark Poerio, and W. Craig Smith)
Co-Author, The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine: Status and Liability (co-authored with Gabriel L. Imperato, Esq.) Compliance Today (May 2012)
Co-Author, CMS Proposes Regulations Implementing the Mandatory 60-Day Overpayment Disclosure Requirement (co-authored with Lester J. Perling, Esq.) South Florida Hospital News (Apr. 2012)
Author, HITECH Act Earmarks $17 Billion for “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Records to Improve Health Care Quality and Delivery, South Florida Hospital News (Jun. 2010)
Co-Author, John Brumfield, Michelle LaPlaca, Felicia Goldstein, Patrick Kilgo, Tara Ravichandran, Melissa Danielson & David Wright, Use of a Novel Technology to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment in Elder Patients, 14 Acad. Emergency Med. 152 (Supp. 2007); reprinted in 64 Int. J. Clin. Pract., 9, 1190-1197 (Aug. 2010)
Co-Author, Chunchun Ni, Hui Mao, Felicia Goldstein, Tara Ravichandran & Randall Scheibel, Changes of White Matter Integrity and Brain Activation in Diffuse Brain Injuries: Assessed by fMRI and DTI (May 6, 2006) (on file with The Emory University School of Medicine)