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H. Guy Collier is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, resident in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. As a member of the Health Law Department, Guy focuses on transactional and related regulatory issues for health industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, public companies, private equity firms, academic medical centers, post-acute providers, medical group practices, and pharmaceutical suppliers and distributors. He devotes a substantial portion of his practice to corporate compliance issues, including internal and governmental investigations, and fraud and abuse and medical research compliance.
Guy previously served in the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services and at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and previously served as planning chair for the Association’s national programs on Health Planning and the Law and National Health Reform. He is a member of the Health Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar, having served on the Section’s first Steering Committee, as well as the Health Law Section of the Virginia State Bar.
Guy is a member of the editorial advisory boards of United States Health Care Laws and Rules (American Health Lawyers Association and West Group) and Health Law Week (Strafford). He has spoken and written widely on health law issues. He currently is an Adjunct Associate Professorial Lecturer in the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where he teaches Introduction to Health Care Corporate Compliance.
Guy is Chairman of the Firmwide Pro Bono and Community Service Committee. He is Vice Chair of the DC Bar Pro Bono Committee, Chair of its Clinics Subcommittee, and immediate past-Chair of its Senior Lawyer Public Interest Project. He has served as a volunteer guardian ad litem in child abuse and neglect matters in the District of Columbia Superior Court, as well as representing indigent parties in contested child custody proceedings. He was the recipient of McDermott’s Pro Bono Partner of the Year Award in 2006. Guy serves on the Board of Trustees of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Board of Directors of Hope House DC, and Board of Directors of the University of Richmond Law School Association.
Representative Experience
Represented several prominent nonprofit health systems in successfully structuring equity-model joint ventures with medical staff members for various clinical services, including multi- and single-specialty ambulatory surgery centers.
Represented hospitals and health systems in structuring comprehensive management services ventures covering services such as diagnostic radiology, sports medicine, and oncology.
Successfully resolved, with the Department of Justice and DHHS Office of Inspector General, a federal whistleblower action against a prominent Midwestern health system, enabling the system to avoid imposition of a Corporate Integrity Agreement.
Led McDermott’s team in conducting a comprehensive internal audit of a health system’s human subjects research activities, involving roughly 1000 active research protocols.
Served in 2001-02 as lead counsel for the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority in structuring and negotiating an $800 million multi-year contract for the outsourcing of health services for the District’s medically indigent (non-Medicaid) population to a consortium of private providers.
Education:
University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., 1976
Johns Hopkins University, M.P.H., 1978
University of Virginia, B.A., 1972 | 