Matt Fowls

PARTNER

Matt serves Milgrom Daskam & Ellis as its Health Law Practice Chair, providing growth-centered healthcare counsel to healthcare providers, technology companies, and other healthcare businesses of all shapes and sizes. In empowering healthcare providers and healthcare businesses, Matt spends most of his time in the following areas: 

  • Physician, dentist, and provider business affairs, such as practice governance, startup, ownership, and operations 
  • Behavioral and mental healthcare
  • Revenue cycle management (RCM)
  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • HIPAA and related patient privacy laws
  • Managed care arrangements, payor contracting, & reimbursement
  • Provider contracting, including Independent Contractor and Employment Agreements
  • Informed consent drafting
  • Management services arrangements
  • Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner clinics
  • Temporary staffing, locum tenens, and similar contracting arrangements
  • Data privacy issues
  • Virtual care & telehealth
  • Fraud, abuse, & regulatory compliance
  • Healthcare mergers & acquisitions
  • Healthcare equipment and property leasing transactions

Before joining Milgrom Daskam & Ellis, Matt learned critical operational healthcare strategy as in-house counsel for several years to a multi-state, multi-specialty provider practice with operations in approximately thirty-one (31) states and approximately nine (9) practice groups, inpatient, and outpatient specialties, including emergency medicine, hospital medicine, neurosurgery & orthopedic spine, telehealth, outpatient neurology, inpatient neurology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, wound care & hyperbaric oxygen, and pediatric emergency medicine. He also provided outside general healthcare and corporate counsel to businesses throughout Colorado and Arizona. 

Matt attended the University of Arizona for college and law school and is admitted to practice law in Colorado and Arizona. Matt serves on the Executive Council of the Colorado Bar Association’s Health Law Section, where he reviews potential Colorado legislation affecting healthcare in Colorado.

Matt is an avid boulderer who spends his free time exploring Colorado’s mountains with his wife and their two dogs.

FOCUS AREAS

Corporate & Transactional

Healthcare

Commercial Real Estate

Articles

Health Law

Demystifying Informed Consent & Patient Registration

Informed consent reflects the legal proposition that patients have the right to make decisions about their care and treatment on sufficient, reliable, and meaningful information. Ideally, informed consent should be arrived at via a collaborative and interactive process between a healthcare provider and their patient(s), with plentiful opportunity for patient questions and discussion.

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