Thomas Thagard provides comprehensive representation and strategic counsel to a wide range of health care providers, including hospitals, health systems, clinically integrated networks, academic medical centers, physician groups, individual health care professionals, renal dialysis clinics, ancillary service providers, ambulatory surgery centers, air ambulance service providers, and medical device companies.

His practice focuses primarily on managed care disputes, strategy, and litigation. Thomas represents clients nationwide in mediations, arbitrations, and litigation in state and federal courts. His work spans a broad range of managed care matters, including disputes involving in-network “trended” underpayments, out-of-network emergency underpayments, medical necessity denials, payor administrative and reimbursement policies, attempted recoupments and offsets, contract interpretation, and rental networks. He also advises clients on related legal issues arising under the Affordable Care Act, ERISA, the No Surprises Act, UCR laws, prompt pay laws, and laws governing payor audits, recoupments, and offsets.