Health Care

The Brunini Firm has a comprehensive health care practice, representing hospitals, physicians, physician groups, nursing homes, and other health care providers. The Firm has broad experience in administrative proceedings and litigation concerning Certificates of Need, Medicaid fraud, nursing home care, fraud and abuse, Stark II, EMTALA, HIPAA, Hi-Tech, Affordable Care Act and other legal issues facing the health care industry.  In addition, and as covered under general litigation, the Firm represents various providers, hospitals and nursing homes in medical malpractice actions.

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Representative Matters

• Johnny Wade, Matt Allen, and Brian Kimball were successful in obtaining a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the district court’s dismissal of a professional negligence claim against Beverly Enterprises-Mississippi, Inc. 

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• On August 20, 2009, the Mississippi State Supreme Court rendered a decision dismissing a plaintiff’s medical malpractice cause of action with prejudice for failure of plaintiff to comply with the pre-suit notice requirements set forth in the Mississippi Tort Claims Act. 

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• Obtained a defense verdict in Hinds County Circuit Court in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought against St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital.

News & Events

• Tammye Campbell Brown Joins Brunini
• Jeannie Sansing Wins Summary Judgment in Torts Claim Act Action
• Flowers and Wiseman Win Malpractice Summary Judgment
• Singley and Wiseman on "Risk Allocation"
• Staines Obtains Dismissal for Mississippi Hospital
• Cheri D. Green Quoted in Mississippi Business Journal
• PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
• Jonathan Werne Obtains Dismissal of Medical Malpractice Suit
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aka Stimulus Package

Publications

• Navigating HIPAA & Recent Healthcare Reform: What You Need to Know

• Brunini Insurance Tax and Penalty Summary

• Cheri Green and Lane Staines, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, As Reconciled: A Survey of the Insurance Slice

• Cheri Green and Lane Staines, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, As Reconciled: A Timeline of Key Dates for Insurance Reform

• Taylor McNeel, Highway Infrastructure Funding and Environmental Funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Jonathan Werne, Incentives for Adoption of Electronic Health Records Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

• Cheri Green, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 and Your Health Care Plan 

• Cheri Green and Lane Staines, What Health Care Entities Need to Know about HIPAA and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Cheri Green, COBRA Premium Assistance Subsidy Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Cheri Green and Lane Staines, What Health Care Entities Need to Know about HIPAA and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

• Cheri Green, COBRA Premium Assistance Subsidy Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

• Cheri Green & Lane Staines, What Healthcare Entities Need to Know about HIPAA, Miss. Business Journal, A Guide to Mississippi Stimulus Spending, July 27-Aug. 2, 2009, at 18.

• Richard Cirilli & Lane Staines, Implementing the Second Phase of Stark IV: A Glimpse of What's Ahead, Miss. Med. News, July 2009, at 5.
• "Arbitration Agreements Emerging Trend in Mississippi," 10 Mississippi Business Journal (December 11-17, 2006)