Gilpin Givhan, PC

D. Brent Wills

Montgomery Location
Phone: 334-244-1111
Direct Dial: 334-409-2211
Fax: 334-244-1969

Practice Groups

• Taxation
• Business Organizations & Transactions
• Health Care

Bar Admissions

• Alabama State Bar
• U.S. Tax Court

Memberships and Affiliations

• Alabama and Montgomery Medical Group Management Association
• Montgomery County Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Sections on Taxation; Real, Property & Probate; Business Law; and Health Law)
• American Health Lawyers Association

Education

• B.S., Auburn University, 1995 magna cum laude
• M.S., Auburn University, 1996
• J.D., Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, 1999
• LL.M. in Taxation, University of Florida, 2004

Publications / Presentations

• Client Alert (October, 2011): “Medicare Revalidation”
• Client Alert (October, 2011): “DOJ Intervenes, Enters Settlement Agreement in Cases Alleging Stark Violations Resulted in False Claims”
• Auburn Medical Group Management Association (July, 2011): “Security Issues in Health IT / Changes to HIPAA Privacy and Security” (handout)
• Alabama Psychiatric Association (March, 2011): “Meaningful Use Update” (handout and slides)
• Montgomery Medical Group Management Association (February, 2011): “Employment Law / Human Resources Update”
• Client Alert (November, 2010): “Gifts and Incidental Benefits to Medical Staff Physicians”
• Lorman Medical Records Law Seminar (August, 2010): “HITECH Update”
• Montgomery Medical Group Management Association (June, 2010): “MGMA Roundtable / Health Law Update” (handout)
• Client Alert (May, 2010): “CMS Issues Interim Final Rule Regarding PPACA Medicare Program Integrity Provisions”
• Montgomery Medical Group Management Association (November, 2009): “Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act”
• Client Alert (September, 2009): “Physician Compensation: Covenant Hospital Settlement”
• Client Alert (September, 2009): “Some Hospitals Not Reporting to National Practitioner Data Bank”
• Client Alert (September, 2009): “EMTALA Requirements and Options for Hospitals in a Disaster”

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Community Involvement

• Envision 2020: River Region Health Information Exchange - IT Finance Work Group
• EMERGE Montgomery - Financial Development Committee; Torchbearers Leadership Class (2010)

Brent Wills is a member of the Health Care, Taxation and Business Organizations and Transactions practice groups at Gilpin Givhan, PC. Brent advises and represents closely held and tax-exempt entities in structuring their organizations, mergers and acquisitions, tax and business succession planning, and various other matters. In the healthcare area, Brent also represents physicians, hospitals and other health care providers in regulatory and other operational matters, including Stark, fraud and abuse and EMTALA compliance. Brent is a member in the Alabama Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and the Montgomery Chapter of the MGMA and has delivered presentations on various healthcare related issues to the MGMA and other groups.

Outside the office, among other activities, Brent participates in the Health IT Finance Work Group of Envision2020 and EMERGE Montgomery, and he is a member of EMERGE’s 2010 Torchbearers Leadership Class.