Scott McBride provides legal services to clients throughout the healthcare industry, with a focus on compliance and enforcement issues. Scott represents and advises hospitals, academic medical centers, physician groups, device companies, home health, and other healthcare clients in False Claims Act (FCA) litigation, internal and external investigations, overpayment disputes and demands, regulatory enforcement proceedings, including civil monetary penalties related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and healthcare regulatory and reimbursement compliance matters.
Scott counsels clients in comprehensive corporate compliance matters, including assisting and advising clients on internal investigations, self-disclosures, and repayment matters. His work spans a variety of matters related to Medicare and Medicaid billing compliance, grants and contracts compliance, civil monetary penalties, Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, corporate oversight, and exclusions from federal and state healthcare programs. He also represents clients in healthcare matters before state and federal agencies and through administrative appeals, including claims appeals of recovery audit contractors, integrity contractors, and other Medicare and Medicaid contractors and payors.
Additionally, Scott advises clients in certain strategic arrangements and alignments, such as academic or other affiliation agreements, joint ventures, service line agreements, management agreements, and governance matters. These arrangements may cover issues related to reimbursement, fraud and abuse, physician recruitment, teaching issues, residency programs, research support, clinical care strategies, and population health.
False Claims Acts and Government Investigations
Provider Appeals
Academic Medical Center Affiliations and Other Agreements
Medicare, Medicaid, and Regulatory Compliance
Internal Investigations and Self-Disclosures
Commercial Payor Payment Disputes
Recognized, Top 10 Influential Healthcare Lawyers Shaping Texas’ Regulatory Landscape, Business Today (2023)
Recommended, Healthcare: advice to service providers, The Legal 500 US (2021, 2022, 2024)
Band 1, Healthcare, Texas, Chambers USA (2021–2024)
Ranked, Healthcare, Texas, Chambers USA (2013–2020)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year, Health Care Law, Houston (2015, 2019, 2020)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, Houston (2008–2019, 2022–2025)
Named, Largest Healthcare Firm, Modern Healthcare (2016–2020)
Recognized, Texas Super Lawyers (2010–2022)
Recognized, Top 100, Texas, Super Lawyers (2013)
Recognized, Top 100, Houston, Super Lawyers (2010, 2012–2015)
Recognized, Rising Star, Texas Super Lawyers (2004–2010)
Recognized, Outstanding Fraud and Compliance Lawyer, Nightingale's Healthcare News (2005, 2009)
Member, American Bar Association
Member, State Bar of Texas
Member, Health Care Compliance Association
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Healthcare Financial Management Association
Past president, Texas Gulf Coast Chapter (2006–2007)
Former managing editor, Brigham Young University Law Review