Sidney Welch

Practice Areas

Healthcare

Career

Sidney Welch is a nationally recognized strategic advisor to large specialty physician practices and associations, as well as technology companies, for cutting-edge and traditional healthcare, transactional, and litigation needs.

Sidney serves as strategic regulatory counsel, providing counsel to clients regarding tomorrow’s healthcare, including digital health ventures; telehealth; precision medicine; artificial intelligence and machine learning; data aggregation and analytics; health information privacy and security; and advanced payment and delivery models. She also works with clients to achieve their business objectives against the constantly developing regulatory environment, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute; Stark Law; the False Claims Act; HIPAA, HITECH, and omnibus privacy and security regulations; and state self-referral laws, fee-splitting, and corporate practice of medicine. On the transactional front, Sidney provides legal counsel in the merger and acquisition of physician practices and healthcare technology companies, as well as private equity offerings, and joint venture opportunities. She also provides representation in quasi-litigation and litigation matters, including False Claims Act mediation and litigation; Medicare & Medicaid reimbursement issues, investigations, audits, and appeals; state medical licensure investigations and hearing; medical staff bylaws, credentialing, and hearings.

Professional Memberships

Georgia State University College of Law, Adjunct Professor; American Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association; Atlanta Bar Association