Jason E. Bring

Jason is a partner in Arnall Golden Gregory’s Healthcare practice group, chair of its Healthcare Litigation Team and co-chair of its Post-Acute & Long-Term Care industry team. He represents nursing homes, hospitals, hospices and other institutional providers in litigation, governmental investigations, regulatory compliance matters and administrative disputes. His defense work includes False Claims Act whistleblower cases and investigations nationally, as well as Medicare and Medicaid audits.

Jason also handles disputes over healthcare reimbursement. He represents providers in Medicare audits and appeals, including audits and appeals involving Unified Program Integrity Contractors, and pursues administrative appeals to recover and maximize reimbursement under Medicare and Medicaid. His practice also includes certificate of need matters.

Healthcare associations turn to Jason for guidance on legislative matters and appellate amicus briefs. These include the Georgia Hospital Association, the Georgia Health Care Association, the American Health Care Association and the Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. He shares perspectives on healthcare issues as host of the podcasts AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights and AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice, and speaks and contributes to healthcare industry organizations.

Jason serves on the board of directors of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and chairs its Foundation for Homecare and Hospice. He currently chairs the Litigation Section of the American Health Care Association’s Legal Committee and previously chaired the Post-Acute and Long-Term Services group of the American Health Lawyers Association. His other roles include service on the board of directors of the Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Legislative Committee of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and the board of the Georgia POLST Collaborative.

• • Represented a nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider in its affiliation with another nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider. Together, the two providers serve more than 7,000 patients annually and employ more than 600 clinical and administrative staff.

• Obtained precedent setting injunctions restricting attorney advertisements targeting nursing homes.

• Obtained precedential temporary restraining order and settlement preventing the government from recouping against a hospice provider during its ZPIC appeal.

• Successfully defended hospice in a federal False Claims Act investigation by filing a series of proactive motions, resulting in a significantly reduced settlement with no corporate integrity agreement.

• Argued and obtained precedent setting decision from the Georgia Supreme Court extending enforceability of nursing home arbitration agreements to survivors.  (United Health Services v. Norton, 300 Ga. 736 (March 6, 2017)).

• Obtained favorable rulings from multiple state appellate courts enforcing nursing home arbitration agreements, including Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

• Obtained a precedent-setting injunction restraining a national plaintiff law firm from using deceptive advertisements that mischaracterized nursing home survey results.

• For a healthcare client facing forced closure for relocating without obtaining government approvals, we implemented a strategy to form a new company to apply for the necessary approvals. Over the objections of competitors, we were able to obtain licensure approval, keep the client operational the entire time, and successfully defend litigation challenging the new approval process.

• Gained CON approval for a new CyberKnife megavoltage cancer service.

• Represented an existing ambulatory surgery center in successfully challenging a competitor’s application for a CON to develop an orthopedic surgery center. (The Surgery Ctr. v. Hughston Surgical Inst., 293 Ga. App. 879 (2008)).

• Gained CON approval for a new cancer center over objections and administrative appeals by two competitors.

• Compelled arbitration for nursing home provider, then prevailed at arbitration and received an award of attorney’s fees and costs against the plaintiff.

• Implemented a novel strategy of filing a federal lawsuit to successfully compel arbitration of a nursing home case, for Kindred Nursing Centers, resulting in a decision of first impression in Georgia. (Kindred Nursing Centers Limited Partnership v. Cynthia Jones, USDC Southern District of Georgia, Case No. CV409-105 (March 16, 2011))

• Successfully obtained reversal of over $1.3 million in Medicare denials for nursing home therapy services by implementing strategy of attacking the statistical extrapolation methodologies used by the audit contractor.

• Obtained a decision of first impression in Georgia, for Omni H.C Inc. by establishing a statute of limitations for a cause of action for the False Claims Act retaliation provisions (United States ex rel. Nichols v. Omni, H.C., Inc., No. 4:02-CV-66(HV), 2008 WL 906426 (M.D. Ga. March 31, 2008))

• Assisted hospice company in preventing Medicare recoupment resulting from a $20+ million ZPIC audit and then successfully negotiating a resolution for mere fraction of the initial audit demand.

• Gained CON approval for a new cancer center for Meadows Regional Cancer Center LLC over objections and administrative appeals by two competitors. The approvals were upheld after additional judicial appeals.

• Obtained injunctive relief against the government to prevent the recoupment of alleged overpayments and then successfully negotiated a settlement preventing additional recoupment efforts during the appeal process. This was the first ruling of its kind in the country in a ZPIC appeal.

• Georgia State University College of Law, Juris Doctor
• University of Georgia, Bachelor of Business Administration

• State of South Carolina – 2011
• State of Georgia – 1998

Court Admissions

• United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia – 2012
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit – 2008
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia – 2001
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia – 1999
• Supreme Court of Georgia – 1999
• Georgia Court of Appeals – 1999

• Best Lawyers in America®, Healthcare Law and Litigation – Healthcare, 2013-27
• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers, Healthcare, 2014-15, 2020-26
• GaBiz Magazine Top Lawyer in Atlanta, Health Care Law, 2026
• The Legal 500 Atlanta Elite, Commercial Disputes – Tier 1, 2025
• Georgia Super Lawyers, 2016-21
• “Legal Elite,” Georgia Trend, 2020

• American Health Lawyers Association, Past Chair of the Post-Acute and Long-Term Services Group
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Legislative Affairs Committee
• National Association for Home Care & Hospice, Board Member
• American Health Care Association, Legal Committee, Litigation Workgroup Chair
• Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Board of Directors
• Georgia POLST Collaborative, Board of Directors
• Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys
• Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, Senior Fellow, 2009-present
• American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Fellow and Board Member
• The Trial Law Institute
• Diversity Law Institute, Member