Mr. Bring is a partner in the firm's Healthcare Group, where he leads the firm's long-term care litigation defense practice. He represents nursing homes, hospitals, and physicians in litigation, governmental investigations, regulatory compliance, and administrative disputes. His practice covers four primary areas:

 

On the certificate of need front, Mr. Bring counsels and represents hospitals and other institutional providers in obtaining or challenging CONs. He has participated in many of the more significant CON cases in Georgia in the last ten years and has helped obtain several important decisions in the Georgia Court of Appeals. For example, for an imaging provider facing CON revocation proceedings by the state, Mr. Bring and his colleagues defended the action for three years through several administrative and judicial layers and crafted a strategy that allowed the provider to remain operational the entire time.   More recently, he represented an existing ambulatory surgery center in successfully challenging a competitor’s application for a Certificate of Need (CON) to develop an orthopedic surgery center. See The Surgery Center, LLC v. Hughston Surgical Institute, LLC, -- S.E.2d --, 2008 WL 4490776 (Ga. App. 2008).

 

For clients facing False Claims Act allegations, Mr. Bring has negotiated favorable and speedy resolutions with various government agencies and with fiscal intermediaries. In addition, when cases have been filed, Mr. Bring has successfully defended providers and has fashioned creative defense strategies. For example, he helped obtain a decision of first impression in Georgia establishing a statute of limitations for a cause of action for the False Claims Act retaliation provisions. United States of America ex rel. Glenn F. Nichols v. Omni, H.C., Inc., Slip Copy, 2008 WL 906426, M.D. Ga., March 31, 2008 (No. Civ. A. 4:02-CV-66HL).