Juan C. Santos, LL.M.

Senior Florida Healthcare Attorney, Health Care Compliance

Based in Chapman Law Group’s Miami Office • Languages Spoken: Spanish, English

About Me

Juan C. Santos is a Senior Florida Healthcare Attorney in Chapman Law Group’s Miami office. In his practice as a health care lawyer, much of his focus concerns advising health care providers nationwide on health care compliance matters. This includes handling specific regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters for physicians, DME companies, pharmacies, and facility clients, and advising on putting a health care compliance program together.

His health care compliance law experience includes Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law analysis, TJC/JCAHO (The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ), HIPAA, EMTALA, physician employment agreements, physician practice formation, hospital/physician integration and bylaw revisions, physician reimbursement issues, DEA compliance, telemedicine for physicians, urgent care services compliance, and physician ancillary services.

Juan has been a guest speaker at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Regional Conference for health care providers and insurance companies, where has discussed current compliance laws for health care.

In addition, Juan has a wealth of experience in representing licensed health care professionals all across the U.S. who are under investigation by the Department of Justice, FBI, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), DEA, and Florida’s Office of the Attorney General Statewide Prosecutor and Medicaid Fraud Unit.

Juan represents doctors, nurses, and other licensed health care professionals nationally who are facing allegations of fraud and abuse. He practices defense of civil, administrative, regulatory, and criminal health care fraud, including:

Internal/defense investigations
False Claims Act litigation
Settlement negotiations
Withholding of Medicaid/Medicare payments
Medicare audits
Overpayments
Exclusion from participation in Medicare/Medicaid programs
Licensure and certification
DEA registration
Anti-Kickback violations
Medical necessity issues
Qui tam investigations (whistleblower)
Physician self-referral (Stark Law)

Juan Santos explains how a lawyer can help you navigate the DEA investigation process, identify red flags that could have led to the DEA call, and fight any allegations against you.

Prior to joining Chapman Law Group, Juan earned a Master’s in Health Care Law from Loyola University of Chicago — also known as the “Program,” which concentrates on the legal, regulatory, political, ethical and economic aspects of health care delivery in the United States.

While in the Program, Juan joined the Office of the General Counsel at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In his role, he drafted and reviewed business arrangements such as physician contracts, data warehouse agreements, record custodian agreements, organ and tissue procurement agreements, and patient consent forms.

In his undergraduate at Villanova University, Juan was selected to participate as an intern in its prestigious law school clinic. There, he served as an interpreter, interviewing many clients such as Latin immigrants working under inhumane and illegal conditions.

After earning his bachelor’s degree, Juan returned to his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to continue his legal education and become a full-time lawyer. He practiced law for diversified sector of the health care industry, including medical groups, physician-owned companies, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations. He provided counseling and representation to clients in structuring complex transactions and making sure each complied with local and federal statutes and regulations.

Juan’s vast knowledge in health care law and his role as a medical compliance lawyer allows him to handle virtually all issues facing the modern health care professional, which makes him a formidable advocate for his clients. He is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.

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Legal Qualifications

Admitted to Practice

Florida, 2016
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 2011
U.S. District Court, Puerto Rico, 2011

Legal Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M., 2015
Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, 2010
Villanova University, 2006

Memberships

State Bar of Florida
Illinois Health Care Association

Seminars

“How a Corporate Internal Investigation Lets You Call the Tune,” Florida Health Care Association Annual Conference, July 27, 2021.
“How to Prepare and Respond to State and DEA Inspections and Medicaid Audits,” Florida Pharmacy Association Annual Law and Regulatory Conference, December 5, 2020.

Google Reviews

Great experience working with Chapman group. Juan Santos and Ksenia were extremely helpful and went out of their way to help me through the incorporating process. Definitely recommended.

I had an excellent experience with Lauren Leikam, Juan Santos, and especially Sara Bazzigaluppi of Chapman Law Group, who won my case for me. I highly recommend Chapman's team of healthcare attorneys for any licensure problem. They got the job done and were a pleasure to work with. Thanks to them, I can practice medicine again.

Juan Santos was very professional in his representation of my interests. He worked with me to fix a major problem that was created by a prior attorney that I had been using. I would highly recommend his services if you are acquiring a home health agency.

Juan Santos of Chapman Law Group provided me with such fantastic representation at my Oct. board meeting that I was able to obtain my Fl nursing license without incident. He always provided me with the utmost respect, professionalism and a belief I deserve to be a practicing RN once again.....

I’m so please with the Chapman Law group services Attorney Juan Santos was professional and clearly explained the process from the beginning and through out the waiting period. I will be recommending your services going forward. Respectfully Dr. Brown

For those nurses who were falsely accused of drug diverting, having a negative drug test . .. fight fight fight! As of this day the complaint is off my license because of the Great God I serve.. who accomplish his work through the men at Chapman at law. All praises to The Most High via Attorney Juan Santos. thank you so much.

Juan Santos is an outstanding attorney at Chapman Law Group! He has been our corporate attorney for several years and always guides us accurately, gives us excellent advice, and points us in the right direction when scaling our business. We are extremely pleased with Mr. Santos at Chapman Law Group.