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Carrie Douglas

Bracewell LLP, United States

Work Department

Healthcare

Memberships

Jewish Family Service of San Antonio, Immediate Past Board President Jewish Community Center for San Antonio, Campus Board Member Texas Bar Association

Position

Carrie Douglas is a passionate advocate who works tirelessly to achieve maximum reimbursements from commercial payors and third-party administrators for hospital systems, ambulatory surgery centers and large physician practices. She represents clients in a variety of reimbursement related legal disputes, involving managed care contracts and other payor-provider disputes wherein she uses her efforts to resolve matters at the pre-litigation stage.

Carrie has extensive experience on matters pertaining to unilateral payor policies involving COVID-19 reimbursement, reference-based pricing, out-of-network plans and E/M downcoding. She has also established successful strategies related to disputes involving experimental/investigational designations, medical necessity, diagnosis-related groups (DRG) downgrades and refunds, offsets and other adjustments, which have allowed for pre-litigation resolutions. In addition, she advises hospitals and health systems on compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.

Education

The University of Texas School of Law,  J.D. - 2004 The University of Texas at Austin, B.A. and B.B.A. - 2001, with honors