Matthew Roberts

Matthew Roberts is the Chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group. 

His practice focuses on:

• physician/hospital relationships
• managed care issues
• Stark/Anti-Kickback issues
• fraud and abuse matters
• health care contracts
• Board governance issues
• issues related to tax-exempt hospitals
• false claims analysis and defense 
• work on regulatory and legislative matters involving health care

Mr. Roberts received his undergraduate degree in International Relations, magna cum laude, from the University of South Carolina, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Roberts received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was a member of the South Carolina Law Review and of the Order of the Wig and Robe.

He frequently advises hospitals regarding relationships with physicians ranging from single service agreements to development of integrated physician networks and other collaborative arrangements. He also has experience with strategic planning and implementation for hospitals and other health care clients.

Mr. Roberts has extensive experience advising health care clients regarding issues related to Board governance matters including executive compensation, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality related issues.

• Best Lawyers in America
• 2010 In All Things Charity Award, Healthy Learners
• Board For Healthy Learners - Chairman
• "Who's Who in Health Care" - Charlotte Business Journal
• South Carolina Bar - Health Law Section
• North Carolina Bar Association - Health Law Section
• Leadership Columbia

• Fifty-nine Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America®; Five Practice Areas Listed Among Top in the Carolinas
  Nexsen Pruet is proud to announce that 59 of its attorneys have been named to the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers®.
• Healthy Learners Honors Nexsen Pruet Attorneys
  Two Nexsen Pruet attorneys have been honored for their dedication to improving the health and well-being of children from economically disadvantaged families in South Carolina.
• "Matthew Roberts on HealthBeat"
  Nexsen Pruet healthcare attorney Matthew Roberts tells HealthBeat why the firm is proud to represent the Roper St. Francis Healthcare System.
• Nexsen Pruet Earns Designation as 'Midlands Green Business'
  Nexsen Pruet has earned designation as a Midlands Green Business, joining other Columbia-area organizations that are committed to environmentally responsible practices in the workplace.
• Matthew Roberts On Health Care Reform
  On September 25th, Nexsen Pruet health care attorney Matthew Roberts discussed health care reform with Mike Switzer on South Carolina Business Review. Click here to listen to the interview.

• Fifty-eight Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America®
  Fifty-eight Nexsen Pruet attorneys will be included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.
• 45 Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers
  Columbia, SC – Forty-five Nexsen Pruet attorneys will be included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. The publication also ranks Nexsen Pruet #1 in eleven practice areas in South Carolina and three in North Carolina.
• Compliance and the Rise in Uncompensated Care
• Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Become Members of the Firm

• Hospital/Physician Joint Ventures: If You Can't Beat Them, Joint Venture With Them
  Matthew Roberts of Nexsen Pruet's Columbia office and Mindy Staley of Nexsen Pruet's Charlotte office on the increase in joint ventures between hospitals and physicians. (SCHFMA Palmetto State News, March, 2006)
• Hospitals face challenges to tax-exempt status
  Read a story from the Charlotte Business Journal co-authored by Matthew Roberts of Nexsen Pruet's Columbia office and Mindy Staley of the Charlotte office on challenges to nonprofit hospitals' tax-exempt status.
• Tax Exempt Hospitals: How to Survive in a Hostile Environment
  Matthew Roberts of the Columbia office and Mindy Staley of the Charlotte office co-authored this article on how many hospitals should be reacting to increased scrutiny of and challenges to their nonprofit status.
• Tax Exempt Hospitals: In the Fire and Under the Gun
  Nexsen Pruet attorneys Matthew Roberts and Mindy Staley on standards under which tax-exempt hospitals must operate.
• Managed Care Contract Issues
• Protecting Directors, Officers, Members and Volunteers from Liability
  A presentation for Public Charities in South Carolina.
• Conflict of Interest Credentialing
  This article outlines the increasing need for a new hospital strategy, often referred to as conflict of interest credentialing or a modified version of economic credentialing, and discusses the implementation of this strategy.
• Managing Managed Care: Providers Fight Back Against HMOs
  Article by Ralph W. Barbier, Esq. and Matthew B. Roberts, Esq. in SC Lawyer Magazine.
• Managed Care: Are Physicians and Hospitals Friends or Foes?
  A presentation to the North Carolina Healthcare Financial Managers' Association (NCHFMA).

Co-presenter, "Anti-trust Issues in the Managed Care World", South Carolina Hospital Association, July 2010

Co-presenter, "Board Governance Issues for Tax-Exempt Hospitals", Dixon Hughes Hospital Symposium, May 2010

Co-presenter, "Health Care Reform and its Impact on Physicians", First Citizens Bank, May 2010

"Stark: Anti-Markup Provisions", National Association of Rural Health Clinics Fall Institute, September 2009

Physician Hospital Affiliation Panel, North Carolina Healthcare Financial Managers Association, August 2009

"Stark Update and Anti-Markup Rule", National Association of Rural Health Clinics Summer Institute, June 2009

"Stark Law", South Carolina Office of Rural Health, April 2009

• George Younginer Memorial Golf Tournament
• South Carolina Hospital Association's CFO Forum
• Anti-trust Issues in the Managed Care World
• Dixon Hughes Hospital Symposium
• Roper Xavier Society Donor Appreciation Gala
• Annual Health Care Executive Summit
• Tax Exempt Hospitals: Surviving Recent Attacks and the Potential Future Regulatory Environment