Daniel Lindsay Tatum

Daniel L. Tatum has been in practice in North Texas for twenty eight years. Dan’s areas of practice include extensive experience representing hospitals, physicians, and physician groups and other healthcare-related businesses in such matters as negotiation and resolution of reimbursement issues; negotiation of contracts relating to major healthcare equipment and services; formation, merger, and acquisition of medical practices and other provider entities; hospital/physician joint ventures; negotiation of physician services agreements for hospital systems and hospital districts; physician recruitment, employment, and contracting; representation and counsel of hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare businesses on compliance with HIPAA and federal and state self-referral (Stark) and fraud and abuse statutes and regulations; set-up, administration, and acquisition of ambulatory surgery centers and other treatment facilities; counseling providers on impaired physician issues; and anti-trust issues relating to hospitals and healthcare providers.

Dan also has substantial experience in formation, counseling and representation of corporations, partnerships, and other business entities, private placement of securities, and representation of corporations and other entities in contract negotiations, regulatory matters, litigation, and other issues relating to start-up and mature business organizations. Dan has frequently represented corporate entities before state and federal courts and regulatory agencies, and has worked closely with in-house counsel on many occasions.

Dan earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington & Lee University in 1985, and his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1989. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1989, and is also a member of the Dallas Bar Association and the Texas Health Lawyers Association.