Carol Ewald Bowen

For over 25 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. 

She combines her legal knowledge with a practical and responsive approach to help clients achieve their business goals within the complex health law framework. 

Bowen’s clients include major health care companies, hospitals, physician groups, entrepreneurial health care businesses and national lenders within the 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 and healthcare data privacy and security breach response
• Electronic health records issues, including negotiation of EHR vendor and cloud service provider agreements

• Licensing and credentialing

• Development of compliance plans and document retention plans
• Medicare, Medicaid and third-party payor reimbursement, contracting, and value-based payment arrangements
• Medical- staff bylaws and peer review
• Patient care and risk management
• Clinical research issues, including negotiation and drafting of clinical trial agreements for hospitals, physician groups, clinical research organizations; availability of Medicare reimbursement; advice on informed consent and the use and disclosure of information for research purposes.

Bowen leads the Firm’s Health Law practice in the Charlotte office. She is a frequent speaker to client and industry groups on health care issues and has served as an editorial consultant for several health care publications.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of Charlotte Community Health Clinic and on the Board of Directors of Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center.

Of Note

• Selected as a North Carolina Top Rated Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell
• Included in Chambers Partners USA in North Carolina – Healthcare, 2014-2017
• Included in Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law, 2013-2018
• Selected for inclusion to the North Carolina Super Lawyers list in 2009 - 2016.  Her primary area of practice is Health Care.
• 2013 Women in Business Award Winner, presented by the Charlotte Business Journal
• Selected for inclusion to the 2011 Top 50 Women North Carolina Supers Lawyers, which is included in the North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine.
• American Bar Association Health Law Section- Member and Vice Chair, Membership, 2010-2011
• Speaker, “Practical Advice from the MedCath Experience,” American Health Lawyers Association, Health Care Transactions program, April 2014
• Participant, American Health Lawyers Association Masters Program, “Improving Quality and Bonding with Physicians:  A Health System Case Study,” May 2009
• 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 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 2002

• Co-presenter, Healthcare Reform Update 2012, January 2012, Mecklenburg County Bar Association

• Presenter, Health Care Symposium, September 2009, sponsored by Moore & Van Allen, PLLC and LarsonAllen, LLP

News

• Best Lawyers® Recognizes 71 Moore & Van Allen Attorneys
• Moore & Van Allen Attorneys and Practices Recognized in 2017 Chambers & Partners Guide
• Best Lawyers® Recognizes 74 Moore & Van Allen Attorneys
• Thirty-nine Moore & Van Allen Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers
• Best Lawyers Recognizes 76 Moore & Van Allen Attorneys
• MVA Attorneys and Practices Recognized in Latest Chambers and Partners Guide

Speaking Engagements

• Privacy & Data Security Seminar Series 2014, October 30, 2014
• Bowen Joins CBJ Health Care of the Future Panel, September 16, 2014
• Bowen to Present at AHLA Conference, April 11, 2014
• Bowen Invited to Sit on Rinehart Healthcare Panel, February 5, 2014
• Health Care Team Helps Coordinate NCBA Annual Meeting, April 19, 2013
• Health Reform Update 2012, January 2012

Publications

• Physicians Agreements May Cost South Carolina Hospital More Than $237.5 Million
  Health Care Client Update October 2013
• OIG Special Advisory - The Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs
  Health Care Client Alert July 2013
• OIG Special Fraud Alert
  Health Care Client Alert March 2013
• HITECH Final Rule
  Health Care Client Alert February 2013
• Physician Payments Sunshine Act Final Rule
  Health Care Client Alert February 2013
• Update Regarding Red Flags Rules Enforcement
  Health Care Alert, July 31, 2009

Professional Affiliations

• American Health Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association:  Business Law Section, Health Law Section
• North Carolina Bar Association:  Health Law Section