Mr. Black is the Managing Member of the firm and a Member in the firm’s business and healthcare practice areas. Mr. Black’s practice focuses on health care and general business transactional work. Mr. Black has extensive experience representing public hospital districts, non-profit hospitals, physician and physician groups. His practice focuses on Medicare compliance, fraud and abuse, tax-exempt organization issues, public hospital district issues, professional and facility licensing, payor contracting, business organization and structures, governance, certificate of need, hospital/physician contracting, joint ventures, physician compensation, and equipment and office leasing. Mr. Black is a frequent speaker on the topics of fraud and abuse (Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute), physician and payor contracting.
Mr. Black is a member of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and Washington State Bar Association (Health Law Section).
A Washington state native, Mr. Black graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. degree in Political Science. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law in Tacoma, where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review. Mr. Black spent two years as Clerk to Justice Charles W. Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court.
Practice Areas
Association Memberships
- Washington State Bar Association
- King County Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, Seattle University School of Law, 1995
- B.A., Political Science, Whitman College, 1989
Professional and Community Activities
- Washington State and King County Bar Associations
- Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys
- American Health Lawyers Association
- American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Publications
- OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert On Physician-Owned Distributorships
- OMW Adds New Attorneys to Healthcare Practice Group
- HHS Announces New HIPAA Breach Settlement
- HIPAA Violations – Visually Speaking
- OIG Releases 2013 Work Plan – Important Topics for Both Hospitals and Physicians
- Public Records Act – Workplace Investigative Report
- FACTA Red Flag Rules – Extension of November 1st Deadline
- US Sentencing Guidelines & Draft OIG Supplemental Compliance Program Guidelines
- Health Law Update — June 2004
- Health Law Update — December 2003
- Health Law Update — May 2003
- Health Law Update — April 2003
- Health Law Update — January 2003
- E-Alert: E-mail Exchanges May Violate the Open Public Meetings Act
