Leigh A. Wilkinson
1001 College Court
New Bern, North Carolina
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Mailing Address:
Post Office Box 867
New Bern, North Carolina
28563-0867

Phone: 252-672-5482
Fax: 252-672-5477
Email: law@wardandsmith.com

Ms. Wilkinson's experience encompasses a broad range of business law matters, from start-up businesses to transactional matters.  Also, she is leader of the Health Care Practice Group.  Ms. Wilkinson's practice experience encompasses a broad range of health care law matters, including obtaining CONs and CON "no review" letters; structuring medical practice mergers and alliances; advising medical practices and hospitals on health care regulatory (fraud and abuse, HIPAA, Stark, anti-kickback, EMTALA, and antitrust) and reimbursement issues; structuring health care joint ventures between physicians and hospitals; negotiating and drafting exclusive provider contracts and managed care provider contracts; and structuring compliance programs and drafting key compliance policies and procedures.

Practice Groups
Business
Health Care

 

Practice Specialties
Business Formation/Organization and Reorganization
Business Transactions
Certificate of Need
Health Care Compliance
Health Care Joint Ventures
Health Care Regulatory Issues
Managed Care
Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
Mergers and Acquisitions

Bar Admission
North Carolina, 1985

Court Admissions
All state courts in North Carolina
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Education
J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
B.S., magna cum laude, North Carolina State University, 1982

Memberships
American Bar Association — Sections: Business Law; Health Law
American Health Lawyers Association
Medical Group Management Association
North Carolina Bar Association — Sections: Business Law; Health Law
North Carolina Hospital Association
North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys

Publications
Business
Health Care

 

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