Brittany H. Cone

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Brittany H. Cone

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Biography

Brittany H. Cone, CHC, is a Partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. She focuses her practice on a wide range of regulatory, administrative, and litigation matters in health care.

Certified in Health Care Compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association, Brittany works with providers on the full spectrum of issues they face including Medicare, Medicaid, regulatory compliance, administrative hearings, and appeals.

Brittany received a Juris Doctor from Georgia State University, where she was a member of the Law Review and served as associate symposium editor and associate editor for student notes. She also served as an extern for the Honorable A. Harris Adams of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Brittany completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Spanish at Berry College, and she studied at the Center for Cross Cultural Studies in Seville, Spain.

Experience

Brittany is experienced in the day-to-day operations issues faced by providers, ranging from Medicare and Medicaid matters, issues involving third-party payors, corporate and regulatory compliance matters, administrative hearings, and appeals. As denials and under-reimbursement become more prevalent from payors including Medicare Advantage Organizations and private insurance companies, Brittany often works with medical providers seeking reimbursement for or defending against the denial of claims submitted to various payers.

Aging Services

Brittany has worked with hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, personal care homes, assisted living facilities, home health and physician practices, especially focusing on regulatory and operational issues.

Health Care

Brittany has advised health care providers on compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. She has counseled clients in managing the regulatory aspects of health care transactions, especially change of ownership licensing and operation issues and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues. Additionally, she assists clients with complying with the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act, including the development of an effective compliance program.

Brittany has also assisted clients with self reporting requirements, internal investigations, including those in response to OIG investigations, the False Claims Act, Stark, and Anti- Kickback. Brittany has spent a significant portion of her practice assisting providers with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including developing HIPAA policies and procedures and breach response.

Medical Malpractice

Brittany has assisted professionals in malpractice actions in all phases of litigation.

Credentials

Admitted

State Courts:

  • Georgia, 2008
    • Court of Appeals, Supreme Court

U.S. District Courts:

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Education

  • J.D., Georgia State University
  • B.A., cum laude, Berry College

Memberships

  • American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
  • DRI
  • Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
  • Second Wind Dreams, Board Member

Recognition

Presentations

  • Long-Term Care Issues
    State Bar of Georgia, Fundamentals of Health Care Law CLE; February 15, 2024
  • Pressing Forward – The State of Medicaid Eligibility and Reimbursement
    Georgia Health Care Association, Winter Convention & Expo; January 18, 2024
  • Involuntary Discharges & Residents’ Rights
    Georgia Health Care Association, Winter Convention & Expo; January 16, 2024
  • The New Frontier: Exploring Florida Medicaid
    FHCA Annual Conference and Trade Show; July 27, 2023
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  • Medicaid Eligibility and Reimbursement
    2023 GHCA Summer Convention; June 6, 2023
  • The ‘Emergency’ is Over: Now What? Legal Updates Associated with Medicare, including the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
    National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals-Georgia, Medicare Summit, March 2023
  • Healthcare Transactions – A Panel Discussion with Hall Booth Smith
    Georgia Health Care Association, Winter Convention & Expo, February, 2023
  • Top Three Issues Faced by Long Term Care Providers in 2022
    State Bar of Georgia’s Fundamentals of Healthcare Law, February 2022
  • Are We Out of the Woods Yet? Legal Updates Associated with Medicate in Light of COVID-19’s Ever Changing Effects on Payment
    Georgia Association of Health Underwriters, Medicare Summit, September 2021
  • Keeping the Beat of Medicaid’s Drum: How to Keep Up with the Ever-Changing Climate of Medicaid Eligibility and Payment
    Florida Health Care Association’s Annual Conference and Trade Show, July 2021
  • The Intersection of Regulatory and Personal Injury Considerations- Practical Considerations and the Focused Infection Control Survey
    American Health Law Association’s Virtual Long Term Care and the Law Conference, March 2021
  • The Top Three Healthcare Issues For Various Sub-Specialists
    State Bar of Georgia’s Fundamentals of Healthcare Law, February 2019
  • Expectation Management: Connecting and Communicating with Residents and Families
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, June 2018
  • Rising to the Top: It’s the Little Things – Controlling the Narrative: Crisis Communication and Expectation Management
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, January 2018
  • Establishing a Firm Foundation: What Recent Trends Tell Us About Getting Back to Basics
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, June 2017
  • Collaboration with Post-Acute Providers: Reducing Re-admissions and Decreasing Financial, Regulatory, and Liability Risks
    Seminar in the South, August 2016
  • Disclosures: How Much is Too Much
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, June 2016
  • Surrogate Decision Makers, Privacy and Current Trends
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, January 2016
  • Preparing for and Navigating the IDR and IIDR Process
    Georgia Health Care Association, March 2015.
  • Making a Molehill out of a Mountain
    Legal update on SNF 5 Star Rating System and the IMPACT Act, Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, January 2015
  • Update on OIG focus on culture of compliance, creating effective communication systems
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual Convention, January 2014
  • Managing the Unmanageable: How effective expectation management can be used in all levels of operations
    Georgia Health Care Association, Bi-annual convention, June 2013

Publications

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In the Press

New Rule Requires Increased Transparency in Nursing Home Ownership

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Recent OIG Report Could Result in a Revamp & Refocus of Georgia’s Nursing Facility Survey Process

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55 Hall Booth Smith Lawyers Recognized as 2024 Best Lawyers® Award Recipients

Hall Booth Smith is pleased to announce that 55 lawyers have been included in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. “For more than 40 years, the rigorous methodology of Best Lawyers® has ensured the
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Medicaid Unwinding: 4 Steps Nursing Facilities Should Take as the Public Health Emergency Ends

Written by: Brittany H. Cone, Esq.; Jordan Johnson, Esq.; Anna Stallings, Esq.; and Alexis McCoy, Medicaid Recovery Specialist. Introduction At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), allowing the federal government to take on a greater share of Medicaid costs and expanding protections for consumers. Notably, the
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