Sarah Browning focuses her practice on complex healthcare transactions, including health system acquisitions and transactions involving vertically integrated healthcare organizations. She calls on her experience in both corporate and healthcare regulatory matters to manage challenging transactions with competing concerns, such as nonprofit and charitable trust duties, antitrust limitations, insurance regulation, provider self-referral prohibitions under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, and healthcare payments or reimbursement.
Clients rely on Sarah’s ability to understand legal and situational nuance while maintaining a view of the “big picture.” One of her strongest skills is her ability to digest these issues, analyze the risk and available options, and communicate them in a way that helps in house counsel and organization leadership understand the issues and make appropriate decisions.
Sarah’s experience includes:
- Healthcare nonprofit transactions, including adherence to an organization’s charitable purposes, regulator review regarding use of nonprofit charitable assets and trusts.
- State regulator review of transactions involving antitrust concerns, including under new and evolving healthcare Transaction Review Laws (whether through a state attorney general’s office or other state authority).
- State insurance regulator review of transactions involving licensed insurers.
- Compliance with new state transaction review laws, for specific transactions and across an organization.
Sarah has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® as "One to Watch" in Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Technology Law, and was twice named a “Rising Star” by Georgia Super Lawyers.