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George
F. Indest, III, is the founder and managing partner of The Health Law Firm
based in Altamonte Springs and Orlando, Florida.
Mr. Indest is board certified by the Florida Bar in the legal
specialty of Health Law. He
is also board certified as a health care risk manager by the American
Board of Risk Management, Inc. He
is a member of the American Medical Association's Doctor's Advisory
Network and serves as General Counsel for the Florida Chiropractic
Physicians Association. His
practice encompasses all aspects of business, corporate, transactional,
regulatory and administrative health law practice, and he represents
physicians, nurses, hospitals, home health agencies, long term care
facilities and other health care providers.
His practice also includes the litigation of professional licensing
cases and business litigation, as well as Medicare and Medicaid audit and
defense work. Florida
Medical Business selected him as the “Best Health Care Attorney
in Orlando” for 2000.
Mr. Indest served as in-house counsel at one of the Navy's largest
teaching hospitals and was also in charge of the legal and medical risk
management programs in the Navy's largest regional health care system,
which consisted of twenty-seven major hospitals and treatment facilities.
He is on the Executive
Council of the Health Law Section of the Florida Bar and has served as
Chair of the Medical/Legal Committee of the Orange County Bar Association.
Mr. Indest received his BA and JD degree, cum laude, from
Tulane University and also was awarded an LL.M. degree, with highest
honors, from the National Law Center, George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., where his course emphasis was in health care law (legal
medicine). He is a member of the state bars of Florida, Louisiana and the
District of Columbia. Mr.
Indest also serves on the Executive Council of the Health Law Section of
the Florida Bar and is on the Board of Directors of a nonprofit charity
nursing home and a number of other charitable organizations.
Mr. Indest lectures and writes frequently on health care legal
issues having a number of publications to his credit.
He is also an adjunct professor of health law for the St. Francis
University Graduate School, Southern Adventist University Graduate School
and for Barry University School of Law.
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