Profile

Renee Montgomery focuses her practice in the health law area and has extensive experience in regulatory and administrative law. For more than 25 years, Ms. Montgomery has represented health care providers and other organizations in administrative proceedings and litigation matters.

Ms. Montgomery frequently lectures on health law and administrative law issues.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Montgomery provides representation and counseling on a variety of different matters, including:

• Certificate of Need planning, application and appeals
• Legislative and regulatory developments affecting the health care industry
• Procurement proceedings and government contracts
• Professional licensing and related proceedings
• Confidentiality and privacy issues, including HIPAA compliance
• Self-referral, fraud and abuse issues
• Administrative appeals
• Rule-making proceedings
• Privacy issues
• Health care contracts
• Licensure and certification issues
• Reimbursement issues
• Risk management issues
• Employment practices and policies
• Employment contracts, covenants not to compete and confidentiality agreements

News

• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• NCBA Publishes Health Care Article by Raleigh Attorneys
  Medicaid & Medicare Audits: An Emerging Threat to Providers
  Prognosis
  August 3, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• Renee Montgomery Receives Dr. Ellen B. Winston Award
  Parker Poe Attorney Recognized for Contributions to Home Care and Hospice Industry
  November 8, 2011
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Law & Politics Names 36 Parker Poe Attorneys as Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2010
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2008
• 40 Parker Poe Attorneys Named Among 2008 Best Lawyers in America
  September 14, 2007
• State, ACS Ready for a Fight
  Triangle Business Journal
  July 21, 2006
• Challenging the State's Largest Payor: OAH Looks over DMS's Shoulder
  October 25, 2002

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Medicaid and Medicare Audits: How a 6K Audit Finding Becomes a 6M Recoupment!
  April 2012
  What Every Provider Should Know, Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina Annual Meetin
• Medicaid and Medicare Audits: What Auditors are Doing – How Providers Can Respond
  October 2011
  Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina Leadership Conference
• Medicaid Audits: What Auditors are Doing and How Providers can Respond
  October 2011
  Meeting of Benchmarks, an Alliance of Agencies Helping Children, Adults and Families
• Healthcare Reform: How Can Healthcare Providers Thrive in the New Normal?
  January 2011
  Greater Wilmington Business Journal BizTech Conference and Expo
• The ABC’s of Medicaid and Medicare Audits
  December 2010
  Teleconference of the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina
• Information Technology in the Healthcare Industry – The Healthcare Provisions of the Economic Stimulus Package
  June 2009
  North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys’ Seminar
• Introduction to CON and Facility Licensure
  January 2008
  Health Law Section, North Carolina Bar Association
• Legal Issues in Epilepsy
  October 2007
  Symposium on Epilepsy, Duke University Medical Center
• Expert Witness Testimony
  August 2006
  Health Care Industry Conference, NC Association of CPA's and the NC Chapter of the HCFMA
• Administrative Appeals to Superior Court
  October 2005
  North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys' Annual Meeting and Conference
• Medicaid Appeals Process – How To Defend Your Agency When Program Integrity Comes Calling
  November 2004
  Leadership Conference of the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina
• Dealing with the Administrative Procedures Act
  April 2004
  Antitrust & Trade Regulations Section & Health Law Section, NCBA, Annual Meeting
• Challenging the State's Largest Payer: OAH Looks Over DMA's Shoulder
  October 2002
  North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys' Annual Meeting and Seminar

Publications

Co-author, “Medicaid & Medicare Audits: An Emerging Threat to Providers,” Prognosis, a publication of the Health Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, July 2012

"The Home Care Industry in North Carolina – Past, Present and Future," Prognosis, a joint publication of the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys and the Health Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, February 2005

Memberships

• North Carolina Bar Association
  Health Law Council, 2003-2006; Administrative Law Council, 2004-2007
• American Health Lawyers Association
  Member
• North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys
  Member; President 1988-1989
• Braxton Craven Inn of Court
  President, 1993; Master, 1990-2005

Cases

• Creative Solution Results in Favorable Settlement for Technology Leader