David G. Cleveland

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, USA

Mr. Cleveland specializes in health care corporate transactions and finance. He has participated in structuring and implementing various hospital ventures, including development of numerous hospital/physician joint ventures throughout the Southeast, structuring managed care networks and integrated delivery systems, establishment of heart institutes, development of primary care strategies for hospitals, and obtaining private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service approving the implementation of multi-entity health care systems. In structuring such ventures, Mr. Cleveland provides particular expertise in evaluating tax-exemption and Medicare fraud and abuse principles.

Mr. Cleveland has participated in corporate restructurings of numerous major community hospitals in the Southeast, including three Georgia hospitals with 450, 350 and 300 beds, respectively; three Florida hospitals with 1,000, 900 and 500 beds, respectively; and a 400-bed hospital in Alabama. In addition, he has represented numerous restructured hospital systems in connection with litigation in both Georgia and Florida, which could impact various laws affecting restructured hospitals.

Mr. Cleveland also has been engaged in numerous tax-exempt bond financings for hospitals totaling in excess of $300,000,000.||In addition, Mr. Cleveland has background experience in general corporate transactions, including acquisitions, as well as general trial and appeallate litigation experience.

Bar Admissions
Georgia, 1981

Education
Duke University
  (B.A., magna cum laude, 1978)

University of Georgia
  (J.D., 1981)
Member, Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review, 1979-1980

Published Works

• Corporate Restructuring of Georgia Hospital Authority Hospitals", Seminar on Health Care Law, ICLE, 1991
• "Healthcare Capital Financing", Spring Institute, Georgia Chapter of HFMA, 1985
• "Hospital-Physician Arrangements: Medicare Fraud and Abuse Issues; Tax Exemption Considerations; Physician Reimbursement and Primary Care Strategies", Annual Meeting, Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys, 1993
• "Hospital-Physician Relations: Recruitment, Employment, Acquisitions, and Incentives", Dixie Institute, HFMA Region 5, 1993
• "Legal Issues in Defending a Hospital's Tax-Exempt Status", 2nd Annual Seminar on Health Care Law, ICLE, 1992
• "Maintaining Tax Exempt Status in an Era of Reform and Consolidations", Summer Institute, HFMA, 1993
• "Managed Care - Community Integration: Development of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems", Executive Seminar on Managed Care, Georgia Chapter of HFMA and Mercer University, 1996
• "Managed Care-Community Integration: Development of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems", GA Chapter of HFMA, 1997
• "Tax Exempt Financing of Long Term Care Facilities", Ninth Annual Symposium on Long Term Care and the Law, National Health Lawyers Association, 1984
• Stark II Regs From A Hospital Perspective, 2005 Healthcare Conference, Georgia Society of CPAs, 2005

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of Georgia
• Geoergia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys
• American Health Lawyers Association

Honors

• Chairperson, 2nd Annual Seminar on Health Care Law, ICLE of GA, 1992