Lawyer Bio : Thomas S. Stukes

Tom Stukes is a partner in Womble Carlyle’s Healthcare Industry Team and represents hospital systems, academic medical centers and other health care providers, and provider networks, throughout the country.

 

Tom has handled more than 40 hospital and medical center acquisitions, sales, mergers, consolidations, conversions and restructurings of public, nonprofit and for-profit clients and has been instrumental in the formation of a number of the largest hospital systems in North Carolina. 

 

Academic medical centers across the country have consulted with Tom about financial transactions and arrangements, compliance with government regulations, and the operation and reimbursement for graduate medical education programs.

 

Health care providers have engaged Tom to form numerous joint ventures among hospitals, physicians and other health care providers, including imaging centers, ambulatory surgical centers, managed care networks, home health agencies and technology companies. One of the largest hospital companies in the country has consulted Tom on the development of innovative joint ventures.

 

Tom represents an accountable care organization that was one of the first ACOs approved by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services under its Medicare shared savings program.

 

Hospitals and other health care clients regularly consult with Tom in connection with state and federal healthcare regulatory compliance, government investigations, and voluntary disclosures of potential violations of Medicare and other governmental laws regulating the health care industry. He has supervised the voluntary repayment and self disclosure of overpayments in excess of $50 million to federal and state governments.

 

The North Carolina Hospital Association and the North Carolina Medical Society presented Tom with the pen that Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. used to sign into the law health care legislation which enabled the development of risk based provider sponsored health plans in North Carolina.