Armando L Basarrate

Practice Areas

Healthcare

Administrative Litigation

Appellate Litigation

Corporate Investigations

Healthcare Litigation

Healthcare Regulatory, Reimbursement & Compliance

Healthcare Transactions

Career

Armando Basarrate is one of the leading healthcare attorneys in the region. Throughout his 30-year career, he has helped numerous hospitals and other healthcare providers establish, grow, and expand their businesses. Armando’s deep knowledge and business-focused guidance is a powerful combination that serves his clients exceedingly well.

Across regulatory, commercial law, and counseling scenarios, Armando brings extensive experience to bear. He has guided numerous public and non-profit hospitals through the Certificate of Need process, regularly advises on healthcare contract negotiations and disputes, and helps his clients navigate through licensing, Medicare/Medicaid certification, EMTALA, and Open Records Act requirements.

Armando is deeply involved in the business of healthcare. With his unique understanding of his clients’ businesses, Armando is able to seamlessly translate legal and regulatory requirements, crafting solutions to complex problems so that clients can spend more time focusing on their businesses and improving patient care.

As illustrated by his experience as a member of the State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of the Georgia Hispanic Bar Association, Armando is passionate about community involvement and improving diversity in the legal profession. It is a testament to his dedication and effectiveness that Armando is a trusted advisor to some of the biggest and fasted-growing healthcare providers in the South.

Professional Memberships

Parker Hudson's Diversity Committee: Member

Georgia Hispanic Bar Association: Past Board of Directors Member

American Health Lawyers Association

Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys: Past President and Board Member

State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program Steering Committee: Member

Publications

Panelist: "Certificate of Need and New Transparency Requirements," Georgia Advanced Health Law Seminar, November 2019

Presenter: “Georgia CON Act Update,” Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Legislative Task Force Annual Meeting, April 2019

Experience

Represented Atrium Health Navicent Peach in opposing a competing health system’s attempt to develop one of the first certificate of need-authorized, freestanding emergency departments in the State of Georgia in Bonaire, Houston County. After a complex procedural history, we ultimately obtained two favorable Georgia Court of Appeals decisions upholding a Superior Court’s reversal of the Department of Community Health’s approval of the project.

Advise and obtain regulatory rulings for several hospital systems across Georgia in connection with COVID-19 emergency initiatives pursuant to federal CMS waivers and state Department of Community Health waivers.

Author Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals amicus brief to Georgia Supreme Court regarding construction and scope of Certificate of Need Act.

Represented Veritas Collaborative Georgia in obtaining regulatory approval for first inpatient psychiatric adult eating-disorders service in the state.

Obtain Georgia Supreme Court ruling reversing Court of Appeals decision on constitutional grounds for WellStar Health System hospitals. Matter involves proposed re-development of a specialty hospital by a large competing health care system.

Obtain regulatory approval for development of Northeast Georgia Medical Center-Lumpkin replacement hospital facility.

Education

Awards