Travis Williams is an associate in the firm’s Healthcare practice group. He represents hospitals, regional medical centers, physician practice groups, ancillary service providers, and healthcare systems in a broad range of healthcare regulatory, compliance, transactional, and litigation matters. Across his practice, Travis helps clients navigate the intersection of healthcare operations, regulatory compliance, contractual risk, participation in government programs, and enforcement exposure. He is both practical and passionate about achieving the best possible result for his clients.
His regulatory compliance practice also encompasses federal and state healthcare fraud-and-abuse laws. Travis has experience evaluating financial relationships, referral arrangements, charitable contributions, and other business arrangements under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the Stark Law, and related safe harbors and exceptions. He also has experience with False Claims Act litigation, including matters involving alleged kickbacks, billing and reimbursement practices, regulatory certifications, retaliation claims, and cybersecurity-related compliance obligations.
Travis regularly advises healthcare organizations on HIPAA, health information privacy, data security, and cybersecurity matters. His experience includes analyzing complex vendor arrangements, permissible uses and disclosures of protected health information, data-use arrangements, breach and security-incident obligations, and the privacy and security provisions of business associate agreements, vendor agreements, and technology-services arrangements. He also assists clients in addressing information-security controls, vendor oversight, data governance, and the application of privacy and security requirements to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
Travis also advises clients on Georgia’s certificate of need program. His experience includes preparing and responding to notices of opposition, analyzing certificate of need requirements, and assisting with administrative appeals and judicial review proceedings involving proposed healthcare facilities and services.
