Top Health Care Lawyers Near Me in Saint Louis Area

Paul Hales is a graduate of Columbia University Law School and is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. He manages an international health privacy law consulting practice and is the author of The HIPAA E-Tool, Internet-based, easy to use compliance software that is fully aligned with all 180 HIPAA Audit protocols and has separate editions for health care providers, health plans, business associates and third party administrators. Before specializing exclusively on health privacy law he worked in private practice as a litigator and appellate lawyer on complex civil cases and also served as outside general counsel for business, healthcare and nonprofit organizations.

Kevin Fairlie is the founding Member of the firm where he practices in the areas of healthcare regulatory compliance, general healthcare counsel, corporate and transactional law, with a special emphasis on the representation of EMS providers and agencies.Mr. Fairlie has represented healthcare clients and organizations across the country.  He has served as counsel for numerous organizations undergoing both state and federal investigations involving state Medicaid investigation units, state attorney’s general office investigations, and United States Department of Justice investigations involving Medicare fraud and abuse, False Claims Act, Whistleblower, Anti-kickback laws and Antitrust issues and allegations.  Because Mr. Fairlie has served both as CEO and General Counsel to major corporations, he brings a unique perspective to his clients and understands the many decisions executives must balance in deciding the pros and cons of pursuing various legal and compliance strategies.Career BackgroundDuring the course of his career, Mr. Fairlie has gained experience representing and advising clients in nearly every realm of the healthcare marketplace with a national focus in the EMS industry.  Following graduate and law school, Mr. Fairlie began his career with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington, D.C. where he worked on national healthcare policy issues.  Mr. Fairlie then returned to St. Louis to join a law firm where his practice focused on the representation of health plans in regulatory and transactional matters.In 2004, Mr. Fairlie joined the largest private ambulance provider in the State of Missouri as the Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel where he successfully lead the organization out from under a Corporate Integrity Agreement entered into with the federal government to settle Medicare fraud and abuse allegations.  Mr. Fairlie has since assisted numerous healthcare organizations in handling state and federal investigations while serving as Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel.  From 2004 to 2014 he also lead the healthcare Merger and Acquisition activity for a private equity firm in St. Louis which required him to serve as President of several healthcare corporations for the firm from 2010 to 2014.  Mr. Fairlie currently serves as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer to several health centers in the St. Louis area.Career HighlightsIn 2001, while working with NCQA, lead an advisory team of health policy experts in the analysis of proper performance measures for health plans serving Medicaid populations.  This team of experts included state Medicaid Directors from across the U.S. as well as healthcare policy experts from universities such as Harvard and Stanford.From 2002 – 2004, implemented new HIPAA Privacy, Security and Transactional regulations for more than 20 health plans in the Midwest.In 2005, as Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel for the largest private ambulance provider in Missouri, successfully ended a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to conclude the settlement of allegations of fraudulent ambulance billing under Medicare.In 2006, in the role of General Counsel, navigated a large ambulance company through a state and federal Antitrust investigation with no charges brought against the company or any company executives.In 2007, as legal counsel and Compliance Officer, guided a large ambulance provider through a federal OIG subpoena and investigation into fraudulent ambulance billing practices with no charges brought against the company or any executives.In 2007, served as General Counsel in a $40M plus sale of an ambulance provider to the nation’s largest EMS provider that at the time was a $2 Billion publicly traded entity on the New York stock exchange.In 2010, lead the acquisition of multiple EMS corporations in a multi-million dollar purchase agreement.In 2012, as President and General Counsel of multiple ambulance providers, successfully lead an appeal of the suspension of the companies’ EMS licenses by the state board of EMS to the state Attorney’s General Office that reinstated the licenses in good standing and held against the state Board of EMS.In 2015, assisted the United States Department of Justice in the investigation into fraudulent practices by an ambulance provider in Kentucky that resulted in a nearly $1 Million settlement with the federal government.

I work exclusively in the health care area, representing health care providers of all types: health care systems, freestanding hospitals, ancillary service providers, physician groups and individual physicians. My goal is to help my clients be successful while operating within the complex regulatory framework that exists in the health care industry.Specialties: Regulatory compliance, including Stark Law, fraud and abuse, state regulatory and accreditation compliance; transactional work, medical staff disciplinary and peer review matters, risk management and operational issues, state and federal licensure and certification issues.Disclaimer: "The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements."

I graduated from St. Louis University School of Law in 1985. Since then, I have obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements at Carey Danis & Lowe, including a $105 million jury verdict involving the explosive separation of a multi-piece wheel against Firestone which was the largest verdict in Missouri that year, a $4.5 million jury verdict against medical Engineering Corporation for a defective breast implant, a $2.1 million settlement involving a trucking accident, a $1.1 million verdict in a motorcycle accident case, a $1.1 million verdict in a trucking accident case, a $1 million judgment in underinsured motorist case, plus many other successes. I have a long-standing history of community outreach and I thoroughly enjoy helping fellow members of our community. I volunteer regularly and even started a Mentor program at the local juvenile detention center. It’s important for me to be able to help others and guide our youth to a better path and better opportunities in life. Similarly, it’s important to me to be able to help and guide my clients through what can be some of the most difficult times of their lives.

Gretchen Garrison graduated from the University of Missouri in 1982 with a degree in Hospital Administration. She earned her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1986, where she served as managing editor of the UMKC Law Review and on the Moot Court Board.. Ms. Garrison is admitted to practice before all Missouri state courts, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has appeared before every appellate court in the State of Missouri, as well as the United States Supreme Court, in over 50 appeals.. She is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis, and American Bar Association. She is a former chairperson of the Appellate Practice Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and served on the Missouri Supreme Court Electronic Discovery Committee.. Prior to joining Gray, Ritter & Graham, Ms. Garrison was a partner in one of the region's largest law firms, where her practice concentrated in commercial litigation, health care, and appeals. She has served as Associate General Counsel for a large health insurance company and as General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Health. Ms. Garrison also served as primary appellate counsel to the Missouri Department of Revenue, as well as Deputy Appellate Counsel for the Missouri Attorney General's Office, where she was responsible for appellate policy and argument on behalf of state agencies.. Ms. Garrison's primary practice areas are commercial litigation, complex litigation, and appellate law. She also has expertise in regulatory/administrative law, health care, and taxation. In her commercial practice, Ms. Garrison represents individuals and businesses in a wide variety of disputes including negligence, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder rights, tortious interference, trespass, and breach of contract. She has successfully represented parties in large-stakes litigation involving acquisitions and mergers, telecommunications, property rights, banking, health care, insurance, medical equipment, license agreements, government programs, and other business areas. Ms. Garrison also has represented thousands of consumers from Missouri and other states in class actions and other complex litigation against large corporations, including Bayer Corp., AT&T, Inc., Aurora Dairy Corp., Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company, and Merck & Co., culminating in multi-million dollar recoveries. She was trial counsel in three trials having bellwether status in multi-district litigation resolved by a $750 million settlement, defending each plaintiff's verdict as lead appellate counsel prior to settlement.. Ms. Garrison is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Appellate Law, and has been selected to Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers [among the top 5 percent of lawyers in Missouri and Kansas] since 2010, in the area of Business Litigation.