June 2026–Bryan Davis obtained a $1,000,000 settlement for a behavioral healthcare provider against the New Mexico Health Care Authority (HCA). HCA’s predecessor the Human Services Department (HSD) suspended Medicaid payments to the provider in 2023 based on allegations that the provider was overpaid $43,000 by Medicaid MCO Presbyterian Health Plan. After the New Mexico Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Unit declined the case and HSD refused to lift the payment suspension, Mr. Davis sued HCA on the provider’s behalf for breach of contract alleging that HCA withheld payments for more than a temporary period of time as required by federal regulations governing Medicaid payment suspensions. Bryan successfully negotiated a $1,000,000 settlement on the provider’s behalf. This was the latest in a string of large settlements that Mr. Davis has obtained for Medicaid providers against HCA and its predecessor HSD for wrongful Medicaid payment suspensions, including a landmark $10,000,000 settlement for five providers in 2019, bringing Mr. Davis’s total recoveries for Medicaid providers against HCA/HSD to over $16,300,000 since 2018.
Bryan Davis negotiated a confidential settlement in Tamme Davis, DO v. Willamette Valley Medical Center, LLC, Case No. 3:24-cv-02161-IM, United States District Court for the District of Oregon, against LifePoint Health hospital Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinville, Oregon, for an OB/GYN whom the hospital reported to the Oregon Medical Board and National Practitioner Data Bank for alleged incompetence and resigning her clinical privileges while under investigation.
The parties came to a confidential settlement resolving the matter in June 2025. This is Mr. Davis’s fifth settlement with Oregon hospitals for physician clients who allege that they were wrongfully removed from medical staffs, including settlement after winning $1,500,000 at trial for a neurosurgeon whose privileges were revoked at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in 2017.
Mr. Davis is proud of the work he has done for physicians in New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington to protect their reputations and careers from damage caused by hospital sham peer review actions.
Mr. Davis looks forward to helping other physicians vindicate their rights and restore their reputations and careers.