Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5256
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: gts@cabaniss.com 

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Areas of Practice:

Healthcare and Exempt
     Organizations
Corporate Practice
Contract Litigation

Education:

L.L.M., Taxation, University of
     Alabama School of Law, 1996 
J.D., Cumberland School of Law,
     1977 
Emory University, B.A. 1974 

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (1977)
All Alabama U.S. District Courts
     (1980)
U. S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh
     Circuit (1997)
U.S. Supreme Court (1983)
 

G. Thomas Sullivan

Since the early 1990s, Mr. Sullivan's practice has primarily involved representation of healthcare providers.  He serves as counsel for a Medicaid managed care organization which operates the Medicaid maternity healthcare program pursuant to a federal waiver and is owned and operated by ten Birmingham area hospitals which render Medicaid funded maternity services in the Birmingham area.  He represents a for profit corporation which owns and operates inpatient psychiatric hospitals in activities in Alabama.  He has served as counsel for a number of physicians and surgeons in contract and corporate matters, acquisition and operation of ambulatory surgery centers and defense of professional licensure and disciplinary proceedings.   

He serves as counsel to a §501(c)(3) provider which owns and operates numerous LTCH, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities around Alabama.  He represents an acute care hospital owned by a local Health Care Authority in physician contracting and relations with its medical staff.  He has served as principal external counsel for a 501(c)(3) healthcare organization with multiple hospitals in the Birmingham area in transactions and joint ventures, representing the interest of the corporation in hospital bond financings and advising the corporation with respect to its compliance program.  He represents two faith based non profit hospital systems in Alabama, as well as several community hospitals, in various State and local tax matters.

His practice has also involved negotiating, drafting and closing business contracts and transactions, as well as related litigation involving contract based claims.  He has applied experience gained as a prosecuting attorney to representing healthcare clients in actions asserted against them under the False Claims Act incident to the Medicare program.  During his career, he has appeared on behalf of clients in arbitrations or trials in Tennessee, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and Oklahoma in addition to Alabama.  Several of those were trials conducted on the Court TV Network in the course of representing television personality and former professional basketball player Charles Barkley. 

He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and serves as a member of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force, the body which advises and supervises the American Health Lawyers Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Service.  He also serves on the commercial arbitration panel of the American Arbitration Association.  He has arbitrated proceedings in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee, where he served on a panel which resolved a number of claims incident to administration of the TennCare Medicaid program. 

He is also a standing member of the Faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives.  He is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association and served for a number of years on its professional disciplinary committee, as well as the Ethics and Fee Arbitration Committees at other points during his career.  He is admitted to practice in State and Federal courts in Alabama, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.