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Practice Concentration and Experience: Ms. Papapanagiotou focuses her practice on corporate and regulatory matters
for healthcare providers. Before joining Liles Parker PLLC, Ms.
Papapanagiotou was in private practice where she assisted hospitals,
physicians and physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health
agencies, independent diagnostic testing facilities, and health insurers,
among others, with a variety of transactions, fraud and abuse analyses, and
Medicare and Medicaid program questions.
While in private practice, Ms. Papapanagiotou worked extensively as a
consulting attorney with a major hospital chain that owned hospitals,
skilled nursing, rehabilitation and psychiatric units, home health agencies
and employed or managed physicians and physician groups. Her initial work
with the chain included managing the Medicare/Medicaid program and state
provider change of ownership enrollment process for all Texas entities that
were included in the transaction that created the chain. Her representation
grew to include a variety of operational and transactional matters. In
addition, she continued to serve as the primary consultant to the hospital
chain on change of ownership matters.
In her work for the hospital chain and other healthcare clients, Ms.
Papapanagiotou has conducted analyses of proposed and existing business
arrangements for compliance with federal and state fraud and abuse laws,
drafted a wide variety of agreements, including employment contracts,
professional services and medical director agreements, partnership and joint
venture agreements, and real property and equipment leases, and responded to
day-to-day issues and legal questions faced by healthcare providers.
Further, she has addressed numerous Medicare and Medicaid program coverage
and reimbursement issues raised by her clients.
Ms. Papapanagiotou has also worked on transactions involving health
insurers. She has participated in both the due diligence preceding a
transaction, as well as the drafting of the substantive documents involved
the sale of a health insurer’s business.
In addition to her experience in transactional and regulatory matters, Ms.
Papapanagiotou has supplied substantive support for healthcare
investigations and litigation. Her work has included representing
hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physicians and others being
investigated for potential violations of federal and state healthcare laws.
She has also served as the healthcare subject matter expert in
representation of clients being sued over alleged violations of contractual
relationships.
Education: University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas (J.D., 1998, Summa Cum
Laude)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (M.S. in Industrial Health,
1991)
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (B.S. in Environmental
Health, 1989)
Professional Affiliations:
Admitted to Practice in Texas
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