Debbie W. Larios

Debbie W. Larios is a healthcare attorney at Miller & Martin, LLP in Nashville, Tennessee. Her range of experience includes privacy and security, managed care development, hospital and physician issues, Medicare fraud and abuse laws, physician self-referral prohibitions, third party reimbursement, medical staff and peer review issues and antitrust. In addition, Debbie has nine years experience in the administration of Medicare and Medicaid programs gained while working for the state Medicaid divisions of New York and Tennessee.

Debbie received her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 1973, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1988, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University, where she was the recipient of the Johnson and Swanson Scholarship for Appellate Advocacy, and the American Jurisprudence Award for Food and Drug Administration.

She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association, where she serves as co-vice chair of the Health Law Section's committee on E-Health and Privacy and is a member of the national programs committee. In addition, she is the past Chair of the Health Care Law Division of the Tennessee Bar Association and past Chair of the Health Committee of the Nashville Bar Association.

Debbie has written numerous articles for healthcare business publications. Her published articles include "HIPAA May Unite Hospitals and Physicians," healthcare business, October 2000; "Proposed Federal Privacy Rules: Locking the Electronic File Cabinet," The Health Lawyer, December 1999 (Vol. 12, no. 2); "Stark II: What It Means for Group Income Distribution Plans," Group Practice Journal, May 1998 (Vol. 47, No. 5); "Change Is On The Horizon: New Stark II Regulations Will Impact Referral Relationships," Health Care Business Digest, April 1998 (Vol. 3, No. 4); "New Stark II Regulations Aim to Clarify Physician Self-Referral Rules," Health Care Fraud Litigation Reporter, March 1998 (Vol. 3, Issue 6); "Barbarians At the Gate? An Essay on Payor Liability in an Era of Managed Care," Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1998 (Vol. 65:1); and "1997 Balanced Budget Act Carries Significant Medicare Impact," Tennessee Medicine, January 1998. In addition, she wrote numerous articles for Waller Landsen's healthcare newsletter, where she was previously employed.

Debbie is also a frequent speaker at healthcare seminars, and has spoken at a number of national and state seminars on issues such as HIPAA, fraud and abuse, and the Stark Law. These include the ABA/AMA Annual Conference on Physician Legal Issues (June 2000), the American Bar Association's 1999 Teleconference on the New Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors and the ABA's 1998 Teleconference on the Proposed Stark II Regulations; the Tennessee Bar Association's 1999 Health Law Forum; the 1998 National Health Lawyers Association Institute on Physicians, Physician Organizations, and PPMCs; the University of Tennessee College of Law Symposium on Emerging Issues in Health Care; the 1997 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Seminar: Issues for the Future; the US Department of Justice Seminar on Health Care Fraud and Abuse; several Healthcare Financial Management Association Institutes, and numerous seminars sponsored by the Tennessee Bar Association and managed care organizations.