Matthew B. 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.

• 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

• 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 much 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).

• Annual Health Care Executive Summit
• Tax Exempt Hospitals: Surviving Recent Attacks and the Potential Future Regulatory Environment