Practice Areas
Education
- Middlebury College, 1978
- B.A., Duke University, 1979
- J.D., Vanderbilt University, 1984
Bar & Court Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1985
- North Carolina, 1997
Carol Ewald Bowen
For nearly 20 years – including eight years as in-house counsel for a large national health care company – Carol Bowen has focused exclusively on representation of health care providers and other stakeholders in the health care industry.
Her legal knowledge, coupled with a practical and responsive approach, helps clients achieve their business goals within the complex health law framework.
Ms. Bowen’s clients include major health care companies, hospitals, physician groups, entrepreneurial health care businesses and national lenders to companies in the health care industry.
Representative services to these clients include:
- Joint ventures among large physician groups, hospitals, and other sophisticated health care providers
- Transactional matters, including acquisitions and financings
- Regulatory compliance, including Federal fraud and abuse laws, Stark laws and similar state law issues
- HIPAA compliance
- Medicare, Medicaid and third-party payor reimbursement
- Medical-staff bylaws and peer review
- Patient care and risk management
Ms. Bowen leads the firm’s Health Law Practice in the Charlotte office. She is a frequent speaker for client and industry groups on health care issues and has served as an editorial consultant to several health care publications.
Of Note
- Served on the Health Law Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Association from 1999 to 2002.
- Speaker, "Update on Long Term Care Hospitals from the Provider and Government Perspective," Washington Healthcare Summit, American Bar Association, Health Law Section, November 6-7, 2003.
- Speaker, "Recognizing Pitfalls in Clinical Research from the Physician and Hospital Perspective," Current Issues in Health Law, North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section Annual Meeting, April 19, 2002.
- Program Planner, "New Developments in Health Law," North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section Annual Meeting, April 27, 2001.
- Bowen, Carol E. and Meyer, Donald M., "Phase I of Final Stark II Regulations: Bright Lines for Providers?" Health Care Fraud and Abuse Newsletter, February 2001.
- Program Planner, "What’s Hot in Health Law?" North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section Annual Meeting, April 14, 2000.
Professional Affiliations
- American Health Lawyers Association
- American Bar Association: Business Law Section, Health Law Section
- North Carolina Bar Association: Health Law Section