Elliot Bertasi is an associate at the firm's Nashville office and a member of the Health Care and FDA practice group. Elliot assists health care industry stakeholders, including health care investors, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, pharmaceutical companies, and behavioral health facilities, with transactional and strategic operational matters. Operational matters include regulatory compliance issues related to physician self-referral laws, anti-kickback laws, corporate practice of medicine, fee splitting, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, HIPAA, and state privacy and data security laws. Transactional experience includes diligence, drafting agreements and licensure issues related to health care mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and syndications. Elliot also has experience assisting health care facilities and other industry stakeholders with data breach and security incident responses.