Howard L Sollins

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Howard L. Sollins is an experienced health care regulatory attorney and leader of the Firm's Seniors Housing and Long Term Care regulatory team.

Mr. Sollins' experience, which stretches over four decades, includes matters involving federal and state regulations; Medicare, Medicaid, and other reimbursement; structuring business transactions and contracts; licensing, survey, and certification; certificate of need; fraud and abuse; corporate compliance; and e-health and technology.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Sollins served as an assistant attorney general for the Maryland Department of Health.

Mr. Sollins represents health care providers, vendors, and suppliers. His clients include hospitals and health systems; long term care providers, including skilled nursing facilities, hospices, assisted living facilities, and continuing care retirement communities; ambulance suppliers; physicians and other health care practitioners; pharmacies; and others. He has helped health systems navigate licensing and certification issues; obtain certificate of need approvals for major projects; structure business transactions, including the change of ownership process; work with banks and other lenders on health care financing transactions; and respond to False Claims Act investigations, including the negotiation of corporate integrity agreements. Mr. Sollins represents a number of national and local health care associations. He has participated on their behalf in multiple federal negotiated rulemaking processes.