Carol Ewald Bowen

Practice Areas

Compliance, Controls & Risk Management

Privacy & Data Security

Health Care

Career

Carol Bowen is an experienced and responsive health care partner whose clients value her knowledge and practical approach to help them achieve their business goals within the complex health law framework. She represents health care providers, private equity and institutional investors and lenders, and other companies in the health care industry for both transactional and regulatory matters. Carol is co-head of the firm’s Health Care practice, a team of health care attorneys providing knowledgeable legal counsel.

Carol represents a broad range of health care providers and other stakeholders in the health care industry. Her provider clients include health care systems, large medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health providers, and other service providers for both transactions and regulatory compliance, and operational matters. Her experience includes both in house and outside general counsel positions. Her work includes joint ventures among large physician groups, hospitals, and other sophisticated health care providers, acquisitions, divestitures and financings, and regulatory compliance. Carol uses both her transactional and regulatory compliance background to advise her clients on structuring strategic alignments between providers and others.

Carol’s regulatory representation includes:

Federal fraud and abuse laws, Stark laws, and similar state law issues

HIPAA compliance and healthcare data privacy and security breach response

Licensing and credentialing

Compliance plans and document retention plans

Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party payor reimbursement, contracting, and value-based payment arrangements

Clinical research issues, including negotiation and drafting of clinical trial agreements for hospitals, physician groups, clinical research organizations