Nora Liggett is a partner at Waller Lansden. She advises providers on a variety of regulatory compliance issues, including Medicare fraud and abuse, the federal Stark law and other physician self-referral prohibitions, HIPAA and EMTALA. Ms. Liggett has extensive experience developing Stark-compliant income distribution plans. Ms. Liggett also assists physician groups, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, home health agencies and other provider facilities with licensing, certificate of need (CON) applications and other state regulatory issues. She also assists clients in obtaining Medicare and Medicaid certification and in transferring licenses and permits. Ms. Liggett co-authored the chapter on "Corporate Compliance Plans" in Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Practical Perspectives, published by the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association. Ms. Liggett's regulatory experience includes the development of corporate compliance programs for surgery centers, hospitals and imaging centers. Ms. Liggett is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) and America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers & Partners) for her work in healthcare law.
Ms. Liggett provides counsel on healthcare operations and regulatory issues such as Medicare and third party reimbursement and enrollment, managed care contracting and development, and medical staff issues. She has extensive experience with the negotiation and drafting of management contracts, provider contracts, medical director and specialty services contracts, and physician recruitment and employment contracts.
Ms. Liggett has served as regulatory counsel on numerous physician-hospital joint ventures of diagnostic imaging centers, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities (CORFs), cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers and dialysis centers. In these matters, she provides counsel on structuring joint venture transactions to navigate the complex array of state and federal self-referral and anti-kickback prohibitions. She also assists joint venture clients with obtaining licenses, CONs and Medicare and medical provider numbers, as well as the most advantageous methods of Medicare enrollment.
Ms. Liggett recently has provided regulatory counsel in the sale of assets of an investor-owned hospital to a municipal hospital system and the acquisition of three outpatient treatment centers by an NYSE-listed healthcare services provider.
Education
J.D., Washington and Lee University, 1989
B.A., cum laude, University of the South, 1986
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Law Clerk to Chief Justice Frank F. Drowota of the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1989-1990
Professional Activities
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Member, Health Law Section of the American Bar Association
Former Chair, Teleconference Committee of the American Health Law Section
Member, Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association
Former Chair, Health Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association
Member, Nashville Young Health Care Leaders
Author of the chapter "Corporate Compliance Programs" in Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Practical Perspectives (BNA 2002)
Former Co-Editor, Waller Lansden's Health Law Newsletter
