Robb A. Leandro

• Represented a large home care provider in a two-week administrative law hearing, which resulted in a decision reversing a $4.5 million recoupment.
• Obtained a decision from the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings reversing a decision to revoke a mental health facility license.
• Assisted in several successful Certificate of Need administrative hearings.
• Prevailed in an administrative hearing relating to a significant Medicaid recoupment and successfully defended an appeal of the decision by the North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance.
• Assisted in litigation that successfully challenged home care regulatory changes. The court’s decision allowed thousands of disabled and elderly North Carolinians to continue to receive home care services.
• Prevailed in a federal court challenge of federal hospice regulation.
• Successfully appealed Medicare decisions to recoup funds from hospice providers.
• Argued in Superior Court a case involving a successful constitutional challenge to legislation that limited municipal annexation authority.
• Obtained numerous favorable settlements involving Medicaid audits and licensure violations, including several recoupments of more than $1 million that were settled for less than 1 percent of the government’s original recoupment request.

Parker Poe has spent decades cultivating trusting relationships with a wide range of health care clients. We have one of the largest health care teams of any Southeastern firm with respect to the number of lawyers who work exclusively for providers. Our lawyers are also part of a broader Health Care Industry Team that takes a big-picture approach to the challenges and opportunities hospitals and other providers face. With this combination of deep health care industry knowledge, broad experience across many areas of law, and the support of a 275-attorney firm stretching from Washington, DC, to Atlanta, we are uniquely positioned to help clients solve problems and, more importantly, avoid them.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in providing legal services to hospitals and health systems, publicly traded health services companies, physician practices, home health, home care and hospice agencies, diagnostic clinics, ambulatory surgical facilities, assisted living facilities, mental health providers, nursing homes, disease treatment centers, clinical laboratories, sleep disorder centers, and trade associations. We are committed to partnering with each and every client, investing the time to learn your business so we can most effectively advise and advocate for you.

For more than a century, Parker Poe has represented many of the Southeast’s largest companies and local governments in transactions, regulatory issues, and complex litigation. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in the education, energy, financial services, government, health care, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, sports and entertainment, and technology industries. Parker Poe has more than 275 attorneys serving clients from eight offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Washington, DC.

Lawyers in each of our offices are rated among the highest quality attorneys across their respective states, recognized for effective and efficient service. The Best Lawyers in America lists over 100 of our attorneys in its rankings, and we are also well-recognized by U.S. News & World Report, Chambers USA, and other ratings publications.

Over 40 years ago, Parker Poe was the first Carolinas-based firm with a dedicated international practice group. The practice was an outgrowth of our firm’s service to companies based in Germany. Today, our international practice represents clients based across Europe and Asia, as well as in Africa, Australia, and Latin America. Parker Poe is also a member of two leading international legal networks: TerraLex and the Employment Law Alliance. TerraLex and the ELA have chosen Parker Poe to help guide clients through the challenges of global business.