Will Hughes, Attorney

Will Hughes practices primarily in the areas of Health Law, Professional Liability, and Litigation. Mr. Hughes is Board Certified in Health Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Prior to joining Adams & Graham, Mr. Hughes was employed as a briefing attorney for the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Hughes briefed for the Honorable Justice James A. Baker. Upon completing his clerkship with the appellate court, Mr. Hughes began working as an associate attorney at Adams & Graham, L.L.P. His primary practice is in the firm's health law section representing hospitals, physicians, hospital committees, and other health care providers on litigation, business, compliance, and regulatory matters.

Mr. Hughes serves as a resource to hospitals and other health care providers on a number of issues including medical staff affairs, physician and group contracts, patient consent, withdrawal of life support, regulatory matters including EMTALA and the HIPAA Privacy Rule, statutory requirements affecting health care entities, contract issues, patient confidentiality, and documentation. Mr. Hughes has extensive experience with medical committee and physician and nursing peer review issues and has practiced before the Texas Medical Board,  Texas Board of Nursing, and the State Office of Administrative Hearings. Mr. Hughes was one of the attorneys for the hospital in Tenet Health Ltd. v. Zamora, 13 S.W.3d 464 (Tex. App.--Corpus Christi 2000, writ dism'd w.o.j.), a case that received national attention for allowing hospitals to exclusively contract with non-hospital based physicians.  Mr. Hughes has also assisted clients conduct internal investigations for assessing compliance with State and federal health care program requirements.