Richard D. Watters
Richard D. Watters advises all types of health care clients from large hospital systems to individual physicians, nurses and other health care professionals on various matters including general business operations, governance and corporate issues, licensing/regulatory compliance, Stark, fraud and abuse, EMTALA, certificate of need, medical staff issues, practice and business acquisitions, joint ventures, Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation and reimbursement and contract negotiations.
Mr. Watters has considerable experience in obtaining certificates of need for hospitals, nursing homes and medical equipment. He has also obtained numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts for his hospital and nursing home clients in Medicaid reimbursement appeals. He also represents health care institutions and individual professionals before regulatory agencies, licensing bodies, professional organizations, medical staff committees, P.R.O.s, Medicare and managed care.
Rick has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 in the field of Health Care Law (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC) for more than ten straight years and selected in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers since 2005. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Saint Louis University School of Law.
Missouri Foundation for Health
Missouri Nurses Association
Saint Francis Medical Center
Sunrise Senior Living, Inc.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
"New Rules for APRN Collaboration and PA Supervisor Agreements," Medical Group Management Association of Missouri, May 2009
"Impact of New Networks on Hospital-Physician Relationships," St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, January 1998
"Expanded Practice for Nurses and Pas," Saint Louis University School of Law, March 1996
"The Collaborative Practice Act and Related Issues," Fourth Annual Medical-Legal Symposium, September 1994
"Credentialing & Privileging: New Issues, New Challenges," Hospital Services Group, September 1993
"The National Practitioner Data Bank: Is It a Necessary House of Horrors?" The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, June 4, 1992
Martindale-Hubbell, AV Peer Review Rating
Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005-Present
Top 50 St. Louis, 2005 & 2007
Top 100, 2005
The Best Lawyers in America® 2010, Health Care Law (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC), 1991-Present
Certified Health Care Mediator
Who's Who in American Law, 1992-Present
"Leadership - St. Louis," 1988-1989
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater St. Louis, President and Chairman of the Board, 1985-1986
Medical Ethics Committee of DePaul Health Center, 1990-2005
Instructor in Law, Saint Louis University, 1977-1979; Continuing lecturer, Schools of Nursing and Health Administration
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