Michael Bassham Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Providing assistance and guidance to individuals and to entities of all sizes in the area of healthcare law, administrative law, regulatory compliance, contracts, bid protests and procurements, including proposals submitted to private and governmental entities.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

TennCare, the Tennessee Medicaid program, has 1.5 million lives and an annual budget of approximately $11.5 billion. As General Counsel, I provide legal services to all parts of the program for all functions - managed care contracting, procurement, provider relations, long term services and supports, legislative review and drafting, program integrity and.

Oversight of all federal litigation involving the Division of Health Care Finance and Administration (HCFA). HCFA is made up of The Bureau of TennCare, the Office of eHealth Initiatives, State Health Planning, Health Insurance Exchange and the Cover Tennessee programs (CoverTN, AccessTN, CoverRx, CoverKids). Also, oversight of the Privacy and Public.

Although I work in the Antitrust Division, I handle civil prosecutions of health care fraud cases involving TennCare providers and other false claims act cases. I have more experience with the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act, T.C.A. sec 71-5-181, et seq., and the Tennessee False Claims Act, T.C.A. 4-18-101, et seq., than anyone else. The health care.

General practice with a focus on insurance defense litigation, including medical malpractice.

J.D., Law

B.A., Political Science