Overview
Attorney Matthew Sprankle focuses his practice on a variety of health care regulatory and transactional matters, including fraud, waste, and abuse counseling and defense; government investigations; health care compliance; mergers and acquisitions; corporate formation and governance; privacy, cybersecurity, and data asset management; and telehealth and telemedicine.
Matthew handles a wide range of matters for his clients:
- Advising and defending health care and life sciences entities in connection with federal and state government investigations, payor audits, False Claims Act qui tam actions, and internal investigations related to health care fraud
- Guiding clients through strategic affiliations and transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and transactional health care regulatory diligence
- Negotiating and drafting various contracts, including master service agreements, vendor agreements, infrastructure access agreements, physician employment agreements, data use agreements, and non-disclosure agreements
- Counsels clients with respect to a range of corporate formation, structure, and governance matters
- Drafts privacy and security policies, data licensing agreements, and business associate agreements on behalf of HIPAA covered entities, business associates, and downstream entities
- Counsels clients on compliance with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and other relevant privacy laws, rules, and regulations
- Assists clients with legal issues related to big data analytics and digital health strategies, including those related to human subjects research
- Advises clients on compliance with state and federal laws affecting provision of telehealth and telemedicine services, including issues related to licensure, scope of practice, reimbursement and coverage, and online prescribing
Matthew is a contributing author of Epstein Becker Green's Telemental Health Laws app, a comprehensive survey of state telehealth laws, regulations, and policies for mental and behavioral health practitioners and stakeholders across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. He is also a contributor to the firm’s Health Law Advisor Blog. Matthew serves on the firm’s pro bono committee and participates as a presenter for educating incoming summer associate classes on business organizations.
Matthew received his Juris Doctor, with a Health Law Certificate, from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Maryland Law Review and President of the Student Health Law Organization. While attending law school, Matthew also worked with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland, the Office of the Maryland Attorney General, and the Risk Management and Patient Care section of a teaching hospital’s Legal Department.
Matthew graduated, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Delaware and then received a Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University.
From 2013 to 2015, Matthew was a Teach For America corps member and a seventh- and eighth-grade math teacher in Baltimore City. In this capacity, he worked to provide educational equality in underprivileged communities.
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Credentials
Education
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (J.D., 2018)
- Health Law Certificate
- Associate Editor, Maryland Law Review
- Johns Hopkins University (M.S., 2015)
- University of Delaware, Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics (B.S., cum laude, 2013)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Media
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Insights
- BlogsCMS’s Final Rule on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation3 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Reports Telemental Health’s Influence Grows Throughout COVID-19 Pandemic6 minute read
- PublicationsCMS Wins on Partial Appeal—D.C. Circuit Court Rules Against United’s Initially Successful Challenge to the Medicare ...13 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green's Annual Telehealth Analysis Reports an Increase in Telemental Health Fraud6 minute read
- BlogsCongress’s COVID-19 Funding Legislation Expands Access to Telehealth Services for Medicare Beneficiaries6 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Finds Telehealth Services Are Increasingly Accessible to Mental Health Professionals Despite ...5 minute read
- BlogsUp in Smoke: The Countdown on Vape Enforcement Discretion Begins8 minute read
- BlogsCMS Seeks to Improve Patient Care and Decrease Costs for Emergency Transportation by Implementing New Medicare Payment ...6 minute read
- PublicationsFDA Proposes to Clarify and Formalize the De Novo Classification Process for Medical Devices1 minute read
- BlogsFDA Proposes to Clarify and Formalize the De Novo Classification Process for Medical Devices7 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Finds Increasing Acceptance of Telehealth Services Among Providers and Legislators8 minute read
- PublicationsThe SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act: Part 1: New Federal Anti-Kickback Law – Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery ...13 minute read
- PublicationsCMS Final Rule Expands Medicare’s Reimbursement for Physician Services Furnished Using Communication Technology ...11 minute read
- BlogsTop Five Takeaways from MedPAC’s Meeting on Medicare Issues and Policy Developments – November 201811 minute read
- BlogsThe SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act: President Trump Signs Sweeping Opioid Law2 minute read
- BlogsTop Five Takeaways from MedPAC’s Meeting on Medicare Issues and Policy Developments – October 201811 minute read
- BlogsTop Five Takeaways from MedPAC’s Meeting on Medicare Issues and Policy Developments – September 20189 minute read